Pat Spillane Is Leaving The Sunday Game And I’m Not Happy! I’m sure there are people on both sides of the fence when it comes to Pat, or is it really?
n Pat is the one people meet when their team is not doing well and we need someone to blame him? Bits of truth can probably be found everywhere.
When you have someone like Phat on the panel and what he’s accomplished on the football field, it’s hard not to give him one. Eight All-Ireland medals and nine All-Star awards, but otherwise all credit at the Sunday Game is no good if you’re not good at presenting yourself – and this is where Pat stood out from the crowd.
He has the prizes and attendance and above all he was able to place himself in the middle of the stock market. Joe Brolly had the same vein, both together, but in different ways.
Pat does have a ‘cute horniness’ and is strong and can weigh a lot on that card. I may be ‘a little’ familiar with this. People also forget that he was a teacher and that it undoubtedly helped him. As we all know how the Sunday Game works, yes it is a live game but the rest is entertainment. Well, it has been, some of the entertainment has been melting for years and now that Pat is leaving we don’t know what’s left and that’s a shame.
As such, we’re all analysts and that’s one of the things that brings us together. Everyone has always had the right opinion as we know it!
This post has changed with the advent of social media. Analysts are now being analyzed and what they say. It’s been nearly twenty years since Pat used the term ‘puke football’ and if social media existed as it does now, it’s a real sign that half of Tyrone would have returned to South Kerry in search of Phat! He apologized for that statement a few years ago, I think.
Pat has played the Sunday Game for 30 years so it’s the same distance since he played for Kerry. It ended the year before in 1991. I remember when it started, it was great for us in Kerry to have some of our heroes on screen. Bead in Tyrone for the Ulster Fleadh in a fortnight and I have to ask if they will be lonely? Maybe we know the answer!
I ask you now, who will take his place? Describe all the awards Pat has won – is there a former player in the country who can present himself as Phat and comment when needed, and people won’t be happy or not informed when others take the sticks let it float?
We need entertainment friends, but who will give it to us?