Saw this elsewhere. Outdated, but still good. And lads, it's only a bit of craic, don't dissect it and hammer it into the ground. 1. The Miltown Massacre 2. Mikey Sheehy's chip in 1978 3. Con Houlihan's description of said chip in The Evening Press. 'Mike Sheehy was running up to take the kick - and suddenly Paddy dashed back towards his goal like a woman who smells a cake burning ... Paddy crashed into the outside of the net and lay against it like a fireman who had returned to find his station ablaze' 4. Charlie Nelligan weighed 15 and three quarter pounds at birth. Had he been born elsewhere, a career in sumo would have beckoned. Kerry slimmed him down and he gathered seven All Ireland medals 5. Six players on the Millennium team 6. 32 All Irelands 7. 69 Munster Championships 8. 91 All Stars 9. Paidí Sé's centenary final 'hello' to Joe McNally 10. The proceeds from Kerry's 1913 game went towards the purchase of Jones' Road. Croker is Kerry's second home for more than one reason 11. Jerome O'Shea's catch in 1955 12. The Kingdom gives other counties great days out. Waterford in '57, Derry in '58 and Clare in '92 13. The Ghost Train 14. The Sean Murphy All Ireland of '59 15. Eddie Dowling drinking 18 bottles of beer at Rineanna before boarding the plane for The Polo Grounds 16. Eddie Dowling's brilliance beneath the Manhattan skyline, 1947 17. Sean Walsh catching Dublin clouds in 1979 18. Kerry have better nicknames 19. The Bracker 21. Gega 21. Purty and Roundy 22. The Bawn 23. Aeroplane O'Shea 24. Ogie - the only man to win eight All Irelands in the one position 25. Der Bomber - The Bearded Giant from Ballybunion 26. Big Ned Roche's culling of Heffo in '55. Kerry strike a blow for the culchies 27. Fitzgerald Stadium hosted an All Ireland 28. Tadhgie Lyne - The Prince of Forwards 29. John O'Keeffe - The Prince of Full Back Play 30. Maurice Fitz 31. Danno Keeffe and Johnny Foley and the famous horseshoe 32. The 5 in a Row T-Shirts 33. Jack O'Shea's goal against Offaly in 1981 34. A meeting of legends. Con Brosnan and Babe Ruth's handshake in Yankee Stadium 35. The one pair of boots that carried Ballybunion's Bob Stack to six All Irelands 36. Bob Stack and Dr Pat O'Callaghan rowing out to Loop Head as part of the latter's Olympic training prior to securing gold in Los Angeles in 1932 37. Four time All Ireland winner, Eamonn Fitzgerald, missing out on bronze medal in the '32 Olympics Triple Jump by four inches. He'd have won gold only for a dodgy ankle 38. Mick O'Dwyer's training sessions. The wire to wires, 35 nights in seven weeks, 50 laps a night 39. John Egan driving to training on a flat tyre. Nobody was late for Micko's training 40. Paddy Kennedy - the other iron man from Tom Crean country, Annascaul 41. Kerry's Croke Park demolition of Cork in 2002. As good as it gets 42. DJ Crowley's goal in 1970 43. Puke Football will never be played in Kerry 44. The Past V Present game in 1968 45. Paul Russell was the first wing back to score a point from play 46. The day Tom Long beat St. Vincents on his own in the Dublin County Final 47. The Killimer Ferry that allows the good folk of West Clare see decent football 48. Maurice McCarthy won his first All Ireland in 1903. At 70 years of age he cycled all the way from Tralee to Galway to see his son in Merlin Park Hospital, Galway 49. O' Connell 50. Jimmy O'Brien's pub in Killarney Continued in next post...........

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 22/10/2008 14:38:25    124090

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NO PLEASE - 50 is about 48 too many already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JayoCluxton (Dublin) - Posts: 2688 - 22/10/2008 15:04:59    124127

Hard luck Jayo! 51. Maurice Fitzgerald, going eyeball to eyeball with Tommy Carr, then splitting the posts against the Dubs in Thurles 52. The Sheehys from Boherbee - John Joe, Paidi, Niall and Sean Óg 53. Tommy Doyle, captain in '86, pushing the four minute mile in Tralee 54. Was it a push in '82? Yes or no, no complaints 55. Tom Ashe wore the hoops of Glasgow Celtic 56. Johnny Culloty's save against Offaly in the '69 final 57. The Spillanes of Templenoe 58. The one handed catches of Sean Brosnan 59. Always check your change in Kerry. They could slip you a celtic cross by mistake 60. Kerry's answer to David Fairclough. Sean Walsh - The Super Sub 61. Seamus Murphy's versatility 62. Bill Dillon and his beagles and storing his bacon in the Sam Maguire 63. The Rock - Kerry's street of champions 64. Miko Doyle - Four All Irelands before his 21st birthday 65. Miko Doyle's haircut 66. Listowel Race week with Sam on the sideboard 67. The Joe Keohane Roundabout 68. The Dan Spring Road 69. The John Joe Sheehy Road 70. Dickeen Fitz was the greatest GAA man of them all 71. Weeshie Fogarty's Terrace Talk 72. Camp - where there's more All Irelands per head of population than any other village in the country 73. Jack O'Shea V Brian Mullins 74. Paddy Bawn against Cork in '52. Prevented those h**rs from annihilating us in the Munster Final 75. Mixie Palmer - great horse, better footballer 76. The Gerald O'Sullivan photograph versus Mayo in 1951 77. Aeroplane O'Shea's novel idea of writing a book on the All Irelands Kerry lost 78. Dick Fitzgerald's book 'How To Play Gaelic Football' 79. Mick O'Connell's 'A Kerry Footballer' 80. Dr Eamon O'Sullivan's grasp of tactics 81. 'If you drink ten pints a night, cut it back to five. If you drink six a night, cut it back to three'. Dr Eamon's winning philosophy 82. The Dunloe Cup 83. Footballs role in healing Kerry's Civil War wounds 84. Caid - what old timers still call football in Kerry 85. The Boston Beer Party. Prohibition was relaxed in Massachusetts for the Kerry footballers on their US tour of '27 86. An Muantáin - Europe's most westerly sporting haggard; where Dan Kavanagh first kicked ball 87. All Ireland winners Kerry gave to other counties : Joe Fitzgerald, captain of Dublin in 1942; Mick Falvey, Dublin '42, and the great Jack Flavin, All Ireland winner with Kerry in '37 and Galway in '38. To name but three 88. Maurice Fitzgerald's pass to Mike Frank versus Armagh in 2000 89. The Golden Years video 90. The Bendix Ad 91. Keeping the Dublin exiles in shape during the golden years, thanks to Micheál O'Muircheartaigh 92. Putting manners on The Dipper, Aussie Rules in the 80's 93. The Shronedraugh Warrior - Seamus Moynihan 94. Kerry's World Tour to Amsterdam, Turkey, Singapore, Jakarta, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, New Zealand, Fiji, Honolulu, San Francisco, Chicago and New York 95. Kerry had a Tiger before Woods was born. Corner back Tim Tiger Lyons 96. John Kerry O'Donnell. The godfather of New York football 97. Donie O'Sullivan training with the New York Jets 98. Paidí O'Sé's All Ireland speech, 1985 99. Jackie Lyne's quote: 'With them b*****ds of mountains in front of us, and those h**rs of lakes behind us, sure there's nothing to do but play football' 100. The Gooch

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 22/10/2008 15:11:59    124136

Self praise is no praise.......

Chester1970 (Armagh) - Posts: 509 - 22/10/2008 15:18:04    124144

Sur what else is there to do downthere? I heard ash won't grow so ye havent many options

tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 22/10/2008 15:21:26    124147

Ye well we're the Kings of Ireland, thank you and goodnight!!!

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 22/10/2008 15:21:57    124150

3inarow08
County: Kerry
Posts: 385
Brillant,brillant and brillant.

101: Jack Murphy

Real Kerry Fan (None) - Posts: 2957 - 22/10/2008 15:29:01    124163

god 3inarow sure ye are class arent ye. no women listed thats dissapointing.

paudi (Meath) - Posts: 681 - 22/10/2008 15:31:52    124168

Ah no - its excellent - well done 2inarow! Can't wait for the hurling version! :-)

JayoCluxton (Dublin) - Posts: 2688 - 22/10/2008 15:36:46    124176

one reason why Kerry are NOT the kings of football

Micky Harte

mossbags (Galway) - Posts: 1089 - 22/10/2008 15:37:50    124179

Actually tiobraid you have the story the wrong way around, I've heard we're so good at football we forced the rest of Munster to play hurling! :)

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 22/10/2008 15:46:08    124191

Paudi the title of the thread reads "Kings of football".

If I was to talk about the queens of football Meath would be mentioned more than once.

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 22/10/2008 15:47:29    124193

And all those 100 reasons were ruined by one ..... Sean Kelly

jmeehan (Monaghan) - Posts: 122 - 22/10/2008 15:47:37    124194

then wheres geraghty fay o malley lyons etc i remember a nice day in 2001 i say u remember it to o when the kings off football were really shown

paudi (Meath) - Posts: 681 - 22/10/2008 15:54:15    124208

Well jmeehan I'd say you're in a minority of 1 there yourself boy.

I presume you're talking about Rule 42 and all that? In my eyes it's one of the greatest acheivments and displays of generosity this country has seen. He's the greatest president the GAA has ever had. He did an awful lot of work for hurling which many people didn't think a Kerryman would do.

So why did he ruin it tell me???

3inarow08 (Kerry) - Posts: 2455 - 22/10/2008 15:58:59    124219

u left out seamus darby's goal in 1982.

offalynice (Offaly) - Posts: 17 - 22/10/2008 16:00:37    124224

Actually tiobraid you have the story the wrong way around, I've heard we're so good at football we forced the rest of Munster to play hurling! :)
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i like that one!!

Rhodejim (Offaly) - Posts: 2888 - 22/10/2008 16:14:28    124240

offalynice
County: Offaly
Posts: 16

124224
u left out seamus darby's goal in 1982.


AH, NO :

54. Was it a push in '82? Yes or no, no complaints

Flanders (Galway) - Posts: 604 - 22/10/2008 16:28:12    124255

yes but is wasn't a push it was a goal and why is maurice fitz mentioned a few times - and loads of other rubbish that doesn't make sense and wissie fogarty the most annoying man in munster IMO - just listening to him every year puts me off wanting kerry to get to all ireland finals.

offalynice (Offaly) - Posts: 17 - 22/10/2008 16:33:06    124262

Good reply 3ina row. I'll give ya that one!!

tiobraid (Tipperary) - Posts: 4119 - 22/10/2008 16:33:44    124263