Haha, when I went to Brisbane to "compete" in the University games way back in 1993, I was a very average road cyclist. But I was staying in the same hotel as the uni Aussie Rules team, and they came back from their first match well and truly battered both on the scoreboard and in the medical room. Struggling to field a team, they offered me a run. Despite being 'bike fit' I was nowhere near football fit and they tried to hide me in the back pocket where I lined up on a dude who's teammates called 'Esky'. Don't know if that was because of his propensity to down a full esky single handedly or because of his proportions being similar to an esky, but at probably a 40kg weight advantage over me, there was no chance to beat him in a one-on-one. But it turns out that was not the issue, because it was very soon discovered he could actually run faster than I could, so it was no issue hitting him up on a lead. 5 goals later the coach thought it was better I spent the rest of the game on the bench, and the invitation was not extended to the next game!
