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Originally Posted by mrbucket
Thank you!
I'll put the Collingwood Dentists in a list of possible expansion teams. I did some quick googles and not sure If I totally get the connection but I'm happy to just roll with it.
I looked up the Bledisloe, thinking it can't have been that long since Australia won it.... and wow. We have MLB players who have never experienced a world where Australia have held the Bledisloe (Roman Anthony, Jackson Chourio, Jackson Holliday)
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Collingwood, the most hated team in Australian sports, AKA the Magpies of the Australian Football League, have a fanbase that makes the Yanks and Red Sox seem like antebellum southern belles in comparison. They are the bluest of blue collar and, to put it delicately, are not reputed for their stellar dental hygiene with many among their ranks missing a fang or two.
So one of the great assorted Aussie vernacular sayings is, when somebody isn't doing so well at something, he is said to be "travelling like a dentist in Collingwood."
I am a proud lifelong supporter (with full teeth, but I make up for it with a criminal record, another badge of honour among the Magpie legion) of this institution.
As, it would seem, is this chappie who makes my point perfectly...