Is it because they're white? Or is it because of what happened to Sydney Swans legend Adam Goodes?
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Either way, the response to the booing of both Gary Ablett Jr and Scott Pendlebury was pretty quick. And widely discredited.
Unlike the booing of Goodes. That just went on forever. And ever. Before finally people started to slap it down.
Even then there were booing sympathisers. Those coming up with excuses to condone the racism for something else.
He's a diver. He slid into one of our players. He was mean to a young girl (who racially abused him). Blah, blah, blah.
It was because he's Indigenous. If you booed him, then you were part of that racism too.
The way Goodes was driven from the game is still one of the most shameful chapters in the AFL's history.
A two-time Brownlow Medallist. Two-time premiership player. Four time All Australian. Indigenous Team of the Century. 2014 Australian of the Year. Booed out the game. Charming.
And still the current Indigenous players have to fight against racism.
Eddie Betts just played his 300th AFL game and he's still dealing with it.
Paddy Ryder. Liam Ryan. They've had the displeasure of being in the same boat as well with social media rearing it's very ugly head.
But not this time. Not now. Not when it's a white Geelong legend. Or a white Collingwood captain.
Suddenly, everyone's jumping on the bandwagon to condemn it.
It's a disgrace that these legends have to put up with it. Don't boo the champions of our game, just cheer them on. Etc etc.
My favourite was the little added extra dished up by Magpies president Eddie McGuire.
"Let's get it out of the game. Boo the umpires if you think you're getting robbed."
Reckon AFL football operations boss Steve Hocking was stoked with that just a couple of days after he called for better treatment of umpires.
(Although today Eddie's backflipped and thinks booing is all just part of the game, but I digress.)
Maybe we've learnt from the Goodes saga and the swift reaction shows that we've grown up as a society. We're now more sensitive to things like this.
But, to misquote Faith No More, what is this?
In Ablett's case it appeared to be the booing of the Cats star because he liked Israel Folau's controversial Instagram post condemning all gay people, among others, to hell.
That's what I thought as I sat and watched the game. Cringing every time Channel Seven commentator Tim Watson asked what it was all about until eventually he started to think it might have something to do with Folau.
I, wrongly, thought someone who's a newsreader might have a bit more of a finger on the pulse.
But apparently Hawthorn supporters have booed him repeatedly over the years. It's not something I remember, having watched pretty much all of his games against the Hawks. Certainly not to the same extent as Easter Monday.
Ablett said his liking of Folau's post had nothing to do with the homophobic content. Apparently he was just liking the biblical stuff.
Regardless, his constant booing appeared to be a reaction to that.
I'm not a booer, more of a yeller, but I'm not sure what the fuss is about? Boo away if that's your bent. Seems a fair enough reason.
For Pendlebury, he got booed while getting his Anzac Day medal for being best on ground in the Magpies' win over Essendon.
Apparently it was because he got a free kick he shouldn't have. Forget whether it's disrespectful. That's just moronic.
Now some people will use all this hooting and hollering as proof the Goodes booing wasn't racist.
"Look, we're booing white people, just like we booed him. Told you we weren't racist."
Maybe if Ablett and Pendlebury are still getting booed in the run-in to finals they'll have a point. But until then it's not even close to the bullying Goodes had to endure as his career wound down.
Kyrgios lends a hand
First it was Canberra Raiders star Blake Austin driving fans to the game, now tennis star Nick Kyrgios is pushing their cars.
A woman's car wouldn't start so she asked a couple of strangers walking past to give her a push. No worries.
But they were on the way home from the Old Canberra Inn after a couple of beers and started to tire.
That's when a car pulled up and asked: "Do you need a hand?"
"Yes please," and out gets Kyrgios, the world's 35th best male tennis player.
He could've driven past. Didn't have to stop. He'd done a day's training.
But he did. And when he was done, he was happy to take a selfie.
When Kyrgios saw it doing the rounds on social media, he simply said: "This sort of stuff shouldn't be noticed, it's an everyday thing, anytime."
But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be. Quite the opposite. Shows they're human. Despite the superhuman feats they achieve in their sport.
And he's not the first Canberra star to lend a hand.
Austin famously pulled up next to a Raiders fan who was waiting at the bus stop and gave them a lift to the game.
Reminded him of his childhood. Seemed like the right thing to do.
He's now gone to play in England, but his former Raiders teammate also got in on the act when he saw a distressed woman walking his neighbourhood streets.
Picking up her possessions as she went - the ones thieves had stolen them from her car and then tossed aside - she bumped into Sia Soliola.
The kind-hearted Raider who's also famous for his big hair. When he hasn't shaved it off for charity.
As the tears welled in her eyes he drove her around helping her look.
It seems in Canberra this really is becoming an everyday thing. Anytime.