Kissing the Bishop's ring, paper hats that dyed your face on wet days. Having a smoke at half-time during club matches. Standing up for the presidential salute (if anyone still does that, please stop it).

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8592 - 09/09/2016 17:45:42    1912377

Getting lifted over the turnstiles, and having to sit on someone's knee.

The way the Hogan used to shake when a goal was scored.

The head-the-balls on top of the roofs of the stands.

Peeing off the back of the Hill ta half time.

O'Hehir's commentary on a radio, with everyone huddled around it.

Jaden (Dublin) - Posts: 139 - 09/09/2016 17:52:25    1912383

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 09/09/2016 17:55:17    1912384

I forgot a couple of things from the original list: Firstly, straight knockout football throughout the championship. Also, the idea of Gaelic games being exclusively the preserve of Irish born people and their kin.

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 09/09/2016 18:16:27    1912390

Knee bandages, the colm o Rourke cloth version which did f-all

Cotton jerseys specifically designed to soak up as much water as possible.

Intercounty players with a gut on them (maybe one or two still exist)

Old fashioned nicknames, not many spuds, bombers, nudies or hoppers these days. Gooch ,Brick and star are crap nicknames no offence to the players on whom it's being bestowed.

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1339 - 09/09/2016 18:34:17    1912397

Just read Sylvie Linnane's biography - back in the 80, he and some of the other Galway players would spend the night before an all-Ireland having a few quiet pints in a Dublin pub to calm the nerves. Johnny Pilkington loved his cigarettes when he was winning all-Irelands with Offaly in the 90s. Imagine the almighty uproar this kind of behavior would cause nowadays.

Gaillimh_Abu (Galway) - Posts: 996 - 09/09/2016 19:05:46    1912404

Honesty.

moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 09/09/2016 19:21:26    1912407

Intercounty players with a gut on them (maybe one or two still exist)
tearintom (Wexford) - Posts:418 - 09/09/2016 18:34:17

Do you mean Paddy Barry (Cork goalkeeper), Mackey McKenna, Jimmy Keaveney and Seanie O' Leary?
Maybe we need some more of that variety

Rockies (Cork) - Posts: 947 - 09/09/2016 19:27:29    1912409

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 09/09/2016 19:37:46    1912410

Rockies (Cork) - Posts: 947 - 09/09/2016 19:46:28    1912413

Hurling helmets without the visors?

Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 09/09/2016 19:53:39    1912414

Anyone for a choc ice, get the last of the choc ices.

Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 09/09/2016 20:13:50    1912417

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5012 - 09/09/2016 20:38:17    1912422

1. The ice cream man in the white coat going between the seats shout 'Ice creams now Ice creams!"
2. The oul lads (maors) in the green blazers running across the pitch and the combover flying in the wind.
3. Dubs fighting among themsellves and with the gardai on Hill 16
4. Fellas sitting on the back wall of Hill 16
5.The Artane Boys Band as a boys only band.
6. NO BLACK CARDS!

avonali (Dublin) - Posts: 1974 - 09/09/2016 21:43:23    1912432

Smell of tobacco from the ould lads smoking pipes in the stands.

Men going to matches in their Sunday best suit.

Players standing to the national anthem in their playing positions.

Ould ones down from Dublin carrying trays of chocolate, taytos and minerals through the terraces.

All Ireland semis and finals being the only live matches on telly.

No sponsors on jerseys.

Hurlers dosing livestock for mastitis and ringworm during All Ireland half time ads.

Furry caps.

Hurlers wearing baggy caps to soften blows to the head.

3 men on the line for penalties.

Hurlers going for goals from 21s.

Overhead pulls.

Ground hurling.

ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 09/09/2016 22:54:38    1912454

white handkerchiefs on bald heads on mad sunny days, knots tied on the 4 corners.

lads in sunday suits at games.

pitches with a hollow or a hill in the middle and yes I have seen ropes as crossbars.

Togging out under a hedge , old railway containers ( experienced both )

10 juveniles per car going to an u14 game

pitches with no perimeter fences , crowd 3 or 4 yards in on the pitch and the linesmen roaring at them to get in out of that.

50's and 70's.

The Nally Stand

The Canal End

Priests as team managers

facethepuckout (Roscommon) - Posts: 214 - 09/09/2016 23:35:12    1912461

ground hurling is a thing of the past

janesboro (Limerick) - Posts: 1502 - 09/09/2016 23:52:37    1912465

hannigantiptoe (Roscommon) - Posts: 39 - 10/09/2016 00:59:14    1912480

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4226 - 10/09/2016 08:14:35    1912489

Casement Park as a playable pitch, got a lump in my throat typing this.

I hope it's hiatus ends soon.

Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4226 - 10/09/2016 08:17:55    1912490