OPINION: Would an AFL 'Boo Ban' stop punters jeering the likes of Gary Ablett and Scott Pendlebury?
Yet as much as the booing seemed of the pantomime variety, it caused controversy because Ablett had"liked" a social media post from
Israel Folau which warned that everyone from homosexuals to drivers failing to give way when they entered roundabouts would go to hellThis"like" theory prompted the AFL's football operations manager Steven Hocking to temporarily stop tinkering with the game's rules and hint at the implementation of something even more absurd than some of his new regulations — a Boo Ban.
How the AFL would enforce this Boo Ban seems problematic, although you imagine Hocking has already sent an exploratory task force to a Punch and Judy show to test the feasibility of apprehending five-year-olds who get a bit too rowdy when Punch acts up. But if a ban on booers seems as unlikely as a balanced fixture, the AFL's overreaction did raise a couple of obvious questions.
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