Scoreboard Pressure
April 2, 2025 7:07 PM Subscribe
Scoreboard Pressure is a blog dedicated to both kinds of scoreboards, Australian Rules Football and cricket. Adelaide Oval. Warramiyunga Oval, Bathurst Island. Henson Park, Marrickville. West Wyalong vs. Lake Cargelligo. Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Donnybrook, WA.
This is awesome. I haven’t seen much for scoreboards like this. Most sports in US is really corporatized, even down to the school level, so all the counties have contracts with Pepsi and they get a generic scoreboard and a bunch of Pepsi/Gatorade/ Aquafina vending machines in the school.
But as a sportswriter covering high schools for a rural newsweekly, I got to run the scoreboard kind of a lot, once both teams found out I didn’t care who won. Mostly baseball, bc those games are long and cold in the early spring and nobody wants to sit in a freezing cold plywood box on stilts in the April wind, keeping up with balls and strikes, when they can be in a sleeping bag in a camp chair behind home plate with a bucket of nachos on top of the score book.
posted by toodleydoodley at 7:54 PM on April 2
But as a sportswriter covering high schools for a rural newsweekly, I got to run the scoreboard kind of a lot, once both teams found out I didn’t care who won. Mostly baseball, bc those games are long and cold in the early spring and nobody wants to sit in a freezing cold plywood box on stilts in the April wind, keeping up with balls and strikes, when they can be in a sleeping bag in a camp chair behind home plate with a bucket of nachos on top of the score book.
posted by toodleydoodley at 7:54 PM on April 2
I never realised the variety of score boards!
posted by freethefeet at 8:18 PM on April 2
posted by freethefeet at 8:18 PM on April 2
Awesome - thanks for this. I would so love to visit the Tiwi Islands and experience that grand final day.
posted by awfurby at 8:47 PM on April 2
posted by awfurby at 8:47 PM on April 2
Thanks [not?] for whisking me in a time machine back to to 1965 to be hanging ~A5 metal sheets with digits onto the cuphooks of the scoreboard at school. The boards are the mere executive summary. The details were being totted up ball-by-enervating-ball in a score-book.
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:52 PM on April 2
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:52 PM on April 2
This is great! Perfectly niche and relevant to my interests. Thanks for posting.
Bye bye The Gabba, you will be sorely missed.
posted by goo at 5:37 AM on April 4
Bye bye The Gabba, you will be sorely missed.
posted by goo at 5:37 AM on April 4
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