Before I start I will be posting a blog soon regarding how the reels use to be run and it will open your eyes to a lot of bullshit that you have been swallowing.
Little Fong was initially a Roosters fan mainly due to all my cousin's being Roosters fans but that all changed in 1983 when my Father became a eels sponsor.
On the day my Father did his deal with the club he came home with bags and bags of eels merchandise and their was one item that hooked me , a 1981 eels jersey signed by the 81 premiership winning team . That jersey mesmerised me and after my Father bribed me with money I became a eels fan and ripped up all my Roosters footty cards up .
My mama wouldn't let me go to the Grand final in 1986 with my Father and older brother because I was a Little young but my father came home and picked me up to take me to league's club where I sat on his shoulders and saw all the player on the back of a truck , that was one of the best time of my childhood , for little kid to be around thousands of people who were all delerously happy about the same thing was big deal
As I got older I became more and more obsessed with the eels , in my teens a few buddies and I would go to every eels home game by catching the train to Parramatta station and walking to the stadium . We use to always snatch flags off the opposition teams fans and bolt to the stadium were we would rip the flags up , we took it as a personal insult that opposition fans would have the audacity to wave their flags at a eels home game .
My Father was also a mentally obsessed eels fan , he had one of the largest commercial building companies in the state and built many of the high rise office buildings in the Parra CBD and their was always a few of his cranes in the CBD which he had painted in blue and yellow .
He was also very superstitious , every Friday who ever was last using the crane had to hang a eels flag from it , many men got the sack because the eels lost on a particular weekend and my Father found out someone forgot to hang the flags from the cranes .
I've also got pretty violent because of my obsession with the eels , the 1998 semi was one of the worst days of my life , I was at he game feeling on top of the world at 19 -2 then I felt nerves like I have never experienced before as the dogs were coming back .
I Iwas a shattered and broken man after the game and the next day as I walked into my office one of my employees thought it was a good idea to rub my face in the fact the eels got run down , I lost all control and grabbed this fool and threw him through the gyprock wall of my office then picked him up and threw him out of building and onto church St . Lucky for me nothing major came of it .
As the years went on I became more obsessed , at one point i changed all my business colours to Blue and yellow , had all for sale / lease signs printed with the eels emblem ( until I was ordered to stop ) i even had all my staff wear Parramatta ties , it was a sickness but I liked it .
In 2005 I had a 10m X 10m blow up eels emblem made up and it sat on top of my office building in Parramatta , then I got really cute and got another one made up put it on top of my Brookvale office building . It was a real hoot seeing those manly fans look up and seeing this massive Eels emblem in disgust , their must of been a million complaints because about 6 months later the local council came to see me and came up with some excuse of why I had to take it down .
In 2009 after the eels beat the dogs to go into the grand final someome shot a brunch of holes in my blow up emblem in Parramatta , it's amazing how sore losers can't handed defeat , I wonder where Top Dawf was that night ?
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Your father's a bit of a cunt if he fired people for not putting up a flag.
Well it was a lot more than just putting up a flag to him and it was probably a bit harsh to , Maybe he could of learnt something from you .
Just an observation chief. Don't worry my old man was a bit of a prick too at times and hot blooded must be a wog thing. He always treated employees fairly though. But he was bad tempered in other ways. We've managed to calm him down over the years and teach him not to overreact to things. Hope your old bloke has mellowed too.
If you told my Father at the time that if he sacked a couple of workers Parra would be guaranteed to win on the weekend he would .
This is man who on his death bed demanded his coffin be decorated with the eels emblem and colours so we had his coffin air brushed and that he be buried with his signed 83 jersey .
Ah Fongy,
Love your passion mate, albeit a little off the charts.
I enjoyed that tale fong.
You're well and truly fucked up!
Same page /Great read I actually visualised the story.
You might possibly remember the Parramatta bread that all the bakeries used to sell in the early 80s at finals time
Obviously blue and gold, fucken horrid it was, Used to make me shit bright green-But that's just what you did for your team
That's fucken Gold.
Your a straight shooter FONGY. You clearly know how to make things work and sounds like you have had a successful career. Like you I am a Parra tragic. Lucky enough to have seen all our wins and all the horrible losses. Actually punched on with my best mate after the 4-2 loss to Canterbury in 84. Threw him into the fountain in the park after leaving the game,
I have mellowed , accepted my medicine but always have a little hope. I know BA and his assistants are not going to deliver us a premiership becuase they are just not in the same league as the big 2 or 3. Tommorrow is certainly going to show us very early how we may go.
As far as old man being tough - my dad was 6 "6 and 140kg and a big angry bastard, He knocked me clean out cold when as a blind drunk 18 year old I pissed on the TV thinking it was the toilet. Never again. Old turd he was.
You were drunk, pissed on the tv, and he was the turd? Classic story though...
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