state of origin.

An Australian sporting tradition, the first game in a best of three Rugby League battle between New South Wales (blues/cockroaches) and Queensland (maroons/canetoads) kicked off last Wednesday night. State against State. Mate against Mate. It is my favourite sporting event of the year and one I have looked forward to for as far back as I can remember.

Having moved to Brisbane from the Central Coast in New South Wales, I am blue through and through and feel pretty confident about our chances in 2012. Even if they have diminished slightly following the other night’s heartbreaking loss to the maroons, the final score being 18 – 10.

Experiencing another loss on top of a six year winners drought, I have definitely had people, read Queenslanders, ask me why I still bother watching? The answer is quite simply because I’m proud of where I come from, I love Rugby League and this is the match-up of the year. The best of the best. Due to the fact that my broken blue heart couldn’t really handle re-living the recent loss, instead of giving you a clever little play-by-play, I have instead decided to quickly share one of the ways being a sports nut has enhanced my life.