Shirts off ettiquette - research

Shirts off ettiquette - research

Hi all,

Looking at doing a radio piece on the "shirts off" phenomenon.

Having never been in the FZ at 80 minutes (or ever actually) can you please give me the down-low on these questions and exact ettiquette?

I obviously know it's shirts off if WPX are leading at 80mins.

If WPX go ahead after 80 mins (say, in the 85th), do they come off (I think I know this is yes, but please confirm).

If opposition draws level after 80 mins, what happens to shirts?

How long are shirts normally swung around heads for?  It doesn't seem to be the rest of the game, but I could be wrong.

What do you do with your shirt after that (drape over shoulder, put on ground, tuck into side of pants)?

How are those who don't take shirts off viewed by those who do take them off?

When do you put your shirt back on?  Final whistle? After players have departed? back at the pub?

Any other stories / facts / traditions about shirts off would be great too.  Coldest ever day with shirt off?  Do you do it at home / pub when watching away games? Does anybody refuse to take theirs off because once they did and the opposition drew level, so now they don't through superstition?

Anything else gratefully accepted.

Thanks all,
Piney

If they go ahead after 80 - yes they come off.

If opposition draws level - it just gets very awkward,some put them back on. No etiquette as such ( we're in denial that it'll ever happen)

Shirts swung around head depends how excited we are.

My shirt gets draped around my neck with my scarf.

People who don't take shirts off aren't looked down on. there may be some peer pressure between mates,never noticed anything more than banter.

Putting shirt back on depends how cold it is! But normally when the players depart. Tegal2012-01-31 15:57:28

coldest was was sometime last season from memory, was lower the 10 degrees, I remember the comments from fans beside me - in aisle23 asking about it, I said that the YF boys were mad. Having said that my shirt came off at 80 mins at the AW's v Bahrain game - couldn't help myself.

me and Frankie Mac had a heated arguement about this the other month - and we were the ones that originated it. I think we were drunk when we made the rules

If we take the lead after 80 mins, of course shirts off!!!

I can't specifically recall ever being shirtless when we've then been drawn level...I'd say they'd stay off in the hopes of victory.

Hard to put an exact timeframe on shirt-spinning, but it does seem to be at least a minute or so....it does definitely come in handy for further goal celebrations though.

Shirt usually ends up draped over seat in front...occasionally beer soaked on the floor.

Shirt goes back on after final whistle for me.

I can remember some pretty cold shirts off experiences in Welly...rock hard nipples. Coldest was definitely after Paraguay in Polokwane though.

Friends get sledged a bit if they don't partake but after 5 years we're kind used to who does and doesn't. Although we did bring this Canadian girl on Sunday and only gave her a ticket on the condition she promises to shirt off...she didn't, disappointed.

Got slapped on the chest by the missus once(love you too dear), roaring red hand print on my pasty white chest! Good timesashby2012-01-31 16:07:08

I remember it kind of happened one game,there was talk on this forum,then the next game everyone was a bit shy at 80,me and my mate went "f**k it" and whipped them off (not saying we were the first,othersvwould have too),and people around us followed suit.

It may have actuall happened differently from that. But that's how I remember it.

Didn't it start after we won in Sydney and some of the troops got their saggy man boobs out?

That sounds about right actually

First game it was done at was in our first season when we won away at Sydney by a few of the drunken lot that went over .It was then decided that it seemed like a good idea to do at every game in which we were leading.That was a great idea until some of bloody cold shirts off experiences that were to come.

One thing I can say Piney, is that you would be glad the sound effects mikes dont have "smell - o - vision when it is actually a warm day! sthn.jeff2012-01-31 16:12:06

The Boca Juniors game was pretty chilly.  From memory quite a bit colder than Paraguay.

the guilty party. Sydney 07

No you diddnt you asked a question.

Come on Piney you have to be having a laugh since when did Yellow Fever and ettiquette belong together.

Didn't Fury (fowler)  score in last minute of a game once.  Pretty sure some put shirt on, some didn't.

Eags wanted to get his shirt off - but we warned against premature celebrations and made a deal that if we were ahead at 80 then it was all on (we chanted RH yellow army for over ten minutes)

I've only ever done this once by commute-

but I remember sitting at my desk in my apartment in Korea listening to you call the pre-season cup final full blast over the internet radio swinging my shirt over my head, and probably making the neighbours think that Kiwis were weird as all heck.

Fairly sure it was pre-season cup. Was that 'Piney I've gotta sit down?' Super exciting game.

The tards, at 10 men no less, scored from a corner to tie it up in the last few minutes. I think that was back in season 2 or 3.

Haha true, it was SO hot on Sunday as well...and after all of that excitement in the first 80mins, stinky pits is putting it nicely.

true? weird I've memories of listening to that- but I definitely watched the final series at what was then barfifa.

I remember of few season passes going missing during the first few times when the layard would get caught with shirt when taking off.

Gold Coast also drew level in the first game of last season, were 3-2 up at 80 mins and Jason Culina scored, was an aweful night weather-wise though.

In Dunedin last month the stadium was so warm inside it was almost a relief to be able to take the shirt off to cool down. A minute later Wardy scored and the topless celebrations were immortalised in photo form on the back page of the Otago Daily Times the next day (and in my signature). I didn't put my shirt back on until the players walked off the pitch that night, but I usually put it back on sometime between the final whistle and the players entering the tunnel.

Shirts are usually swung around for one or two renditions of Carnival de Paris, and then if someone starts singing Carnival again in they get swung around again.

Origins all explained in this podcast (Footy Fever Ep 07). Starts about 6 mins in.

This year has been a doddle weather wise compared to last year, we have had only 1 or maybe two sh*thouse games weatherwise, which is amazing given the summer we have had overall.

at the Phoenix City chat at the start

I think it was against the heart on 24th November 2010.

Had a newbie with me on the weekend actually. Said something to the effect of "why are they counting down? It's not rugby,the game goes for another 10mins"

I didn't say anything and let it be a 'pleasant' surprise at the end of the countdown.

This podcast is hilarious. I'm loving it. Barry the Kingz fan.patrick4782012-01-31 16:58:17

Oi Oi Edgecumbe

I've been playing them all from day one since last week, up to about Xmas of season 1 atm. Well before I got the bug of course. Gives a great perspective listening to the early stuff.

I think this would have to be the biggest shirts off moment in terms of numbers involved. I seem to remember most of the stadium had shirts off. But then again I don't remember much of that night.

I've never been at a game we've won so I have to take my shirt off in my room  #foreveralone

I seem to remember a mid-week game v Newcastle that was absolutely freezing. That's the night that really sticks out in my mind.

There'll be a new tradition of "Pants Off" if we make the Grand Final this year!