God help us for the next five months.
Desperate fans wore the alkaline out of their batteries as they hammered the remote control looking for something, anything, that resembled footy of some sort.
NRL broadcaster Channel 9 obviously want us to go cold turkey, steering completely clear of any rugby league content to throw on a 20-year old James Bond movie.
It was even worse on 7, with thousands of blokes forced to watch The Break-Up with the missus as penance for enjoying the last 29 Friday nights watching footy with beer in hand.
The ABC played it safe with five hit-ups and a kick, screening Midsomer Murders while 10 went the Graham Norton Show and SBS opted for the Jackie Weaver movie Animal Kingdom.
It was almost enough to make you wish the A-League had started.
But then we found a gem among the debris - Dating Naked on Eleven.
We will let Wikipedia explain what it’s all about: “The show matches up several heterosexual couples who are routinely switched with other partners while nude most of the time with the genitals of both sexes along with the female breasts, and occasionally the buttocks, blurred out.”
Basically couples get their gear off and go water sliding, learn archery, horseback riding, whitewater rafting and enjoy candlelit dinners…all the time trying to ignore the fact there is a Michael Robertson wang dance going on in front of them the whole time.
And just like that, all of a sudden the off-season is the get it on season!
Desperate fans wore the alkaline out of their batteries as they hammered the remote control looking for something, anything, that resembled footy of some sort.
NRL broadcaster Channel 9 obviously want us to go cold turkey, steering completely clear of any rugby league content to throw on a 20-year old James Bond movie.
It was even worse on 7, with thousands of blokes forced to watch The Break-Up with the missus as penance for enjoying the last 29 Friday nights watching footy with beer in hand.
The ABC played it safe with five hit-ups and a kick, screening Midsomer Murders while 10 went the Graham Norton Show and SBS opted for the Jackie Weaver movie Animal Kingdom.
It was almost enough to make you wish the A-League had started.
But then we found a gem among the debris - Dating Naked on Eleven.
We will let Wikipedia explain what it’s all about: “The show matches up several heterosexual couples who are routinely switched with other partners while nude most of the time with the genitals of both sexes along with the female breasts, and occasionally the buttocks, blurred out.”
Basically couples get their gear off and go water sliding, learn archery, horseback riding, whitewater rafting and enjoy candlelit dinners…all the time trying to ignore the fact there is a Michael Robertson wang dance going on in front of them the whole time.
And just like that, all of a sudden the off-season is the get it on season!