Inflatable pigs

[RevOwl]

Did anyone else notice how many young Sheff Utd fans were holding inflatable pink pigs? Tv coverage showed loads of kids on their kop waving them around and holding them aloft when celebrating their goal. Have they now embraced what we've called them for so long now and started to enjoy it? Anyone know?

[g-owls]

If you’re going to do it right then at least make it real pigs head like the recent one in Brazil! 

[overlandandsea]

I’ve always found the pig thing so bizarre 

 

real playground stuff and just sounds silly coming from grown men/women 

[onslow]

They’re obsessed with it, have been for decades

Scrubbers

[Mike Hunt]

I can go back 63 years from when my grand parents wouldn’t eat bacon on a weekend if UTD had won 

Blue and white butchers apron , Red and white Bacon 

I can only remember them starting it around 1980 in retaliation 

 

[Ibbo48]

The pig thing was started by a handful of Wednesday fans 

It’s  bacon related 

I always hated it 

I was amazed when shortly after a Unitedite mate told me they were calling US pigs 

[Mike Hunt]

3 minutes ago, Ibbo48 said:

The pig thing was started by a handful of Wednesday fans 

It’s  bacon related 

I always hated it 

I was amazed when shortly after a Unitedite mate told me they were calling US pigs 

That’s crap 

[Auld Mickey Coote]

33 minutes ago, overlandandsea said:

I’ve always found the pig thing so bizarre 

 

real playground stuff and just sounds silly coming from grown men/women 

Agree. It's so cringworthy especially as it's both ways. Like you say, belongs in a playground.

 

'You're a pig'

 

No, you're a pig'

 

No, you're a pig'

 

It must bewilder observers from outside. 'Why are they calling each other pigs? Why do they have the same insult for each other?'

[Daveyboy66]

32 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

I can go back 63 years from when my grand parents wouldn’t eat bacon on a weekend if UTD had won 

Blue and white butchers apron , Red and white Bacon 

I can only remember them starting it around 1980 in retaliation 

 

In their 67' programme at the Lane they wrote " it's well known that Owls won't eat bacon on a derby day and that blades will go home and take it out on their wives if they have lost " In their own words...you couldn't write it unless of course you were a blade 

[overlandandsea]

5 minutes ago, Auld Mickey Coote said:

Agree. It's so cringworthy especially as it's both ways. Like you say, belongs in a playground.

 

'You're a pig'

 

No, you're a pig'

 

No, you're a pig'

 

It must bewilder observers from outside. 'Why are they calling each other pigs? Why do they have the same insult for each other?'

Yep. I refuse to use the word it’s just strange.

[Ibbo48]

40 minutes ago, Mike Hunt said:

That’s crap 

Thanks for your thoughtful response 

But it’s not 

[Bassetts Allsorts]

The evidence for who called it who first is there in black and white taken from their own programme...

 

[swfcAH]

Irony lost em that they're the ones dressed as streaky bacon

[owl84]

3 minutes ago, Ibbo48 said:

Thanks for your thoughtful response 

But it’s not 

To be fair it is 

[Ibbo48]

24 minutes ago, owl84 said:

To be fair it is 

Ok 

Explain to me how you know for a fact that what I posted was crap 

[sw1867]

12 minutes ago, Ibbo48 said:

Ok 

Explain to me how you know for a fact that what I posted was crap 

because it’s not true

[ReginaldD]

1 hour ago, Bassetts Allsorts said:

The evidence for who called it who first is there in black and white taken from their own programme...

 

Domestic abuse just accepted as the norm in the 60s

[Ibbo48]

40 minutes ago, sw1867 said:

because it’s not true

 The truth is no one knows how it started for a fact 

Lots of people have opinions about the origin 

I just gave my recollection of how I believed it started late 70s early 80s 

Don’t understand the hostile responses 

[malcolm]

22 minutes ago, ReginaldD said:

Domestic abuse just accepted as the norm in the 60s

At the lane maybe.

[Beighton Owl 87]

Even Rotherham and Barnsley have jumped on it. People must think south Yorkshire folk are reyt weird