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With a colour code of brown and yellow, Hawthorn has never been a particularly fashionable club. In recent years, the club has tried to address this liability through a policy of meta-sexualisation. Unfortunately, the meta-sexualising has worked a little too well and the market has begun to think that the Hawk’s Eye should be reserved for the Queer Guy.
The foundations of Hawthorn's homosexual image can be traced to its entry into the VFL in 1925. Along with hideous colours of brown and yellow, administrators didn't see the need for an intimidating name for the club was initially known as the 'Mayblooms' and then the 'Mayflowers'. Admittedly, Mayblooms wasn't as effeminate as other flowers under consideration, such as daisies and tulips; however, Mayblooms still lagged a significant way behind more imposing flowers such as snap-dragons.
Understandably, the Mayflowers weren't the coolest club on the block and thus struggled to attract decent players. In these early years "success" and "Hawthorn" were a contradiction in terms for only once during the period 1925 to 1956 did the club manage more wins than losses for the year.
In 1950, Hawthorn changed its moniker from Mayflowers to Hawks and this change could itself be regarded as a psychologically significant development in the club's emergence out of the doldrums. In 1961 it won its first premiership. More successes followed in 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1988-89, and 1991
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why didn't i pick the teams that i wanted to win rather than the teams i thought would win??? i is fool!
