Matty Johns\u2019 crew banned from White House… before his wild Japanese TV interview<\/a><\/p>\nLuke Keary runs out for the Blues in 2020 \u2014 to the disgust of his dad.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI got picked in the NSW side and everyone was saying congratulations, my Mum and Dad never said a word to me,\u201d Keary told the show on Fox League.<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t say a word to me. I still remember, they didn\u2019t ask for tickets, so they didn\u2019t come.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe day of the game even, I remember Dad called me and he was like, \u2018Hey mate, what are you doing tonight?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018I\u2019m playing Origin\u2019, and he just went, \u2018Don\u2019t be silly mate\u2019, (then) hung up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lost … and I think I\u2019ve still got the message screenshot, and he said, \u2018Great work mate, did what you had to do for the state\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The unique dilemma continuing years later when Keary decided to pack his bags and head to the English Super League for a few seasons at the end of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we moved overseas, I took out all the jerseys (I had worn),\u201d Keary continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we gave Dad my debut jersey, grand final jerseys, Australian jersey.<\/p>\n
\u201cGave him the New South Wales jersey and he just went, \u2018Nah mate don\u2019t worry!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The grudge match is always seen as State vs State and Mate vs Mate. Very rarely does it pit father and mother against son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State of Origin can divide many of a friendship group depending on what side of the Tweed you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,353730,48358,81371,763,2105,353733,38438,43669,262360,56527,353734,56535,353735,353732,761,762,673,13392,158,677,52764,701,13385,353731,353736,11854,85,670,274956],"class_list":["post-730811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-david-stanley-smith","tag-debut-jersey","tag-english-super-league","tag-fox-league","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grand-final-jerseys","tag-grudge-match","tag-ipswich","tag-jarrod-pollard","tag-luke-keary","tag-mal-meninga-and-queensland-rugby-league","tag-mark-kolbe","tag-mens-camp","tag-message-screenshot","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-new-south-wales","tag-new-south-wales-blues","tag-nrl","tag-oceania","tag-premiership-winner","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-maroons","tag-rugby-league-heartland","tag-savage-reaction","tag-sliding-doors-moment","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-work-mate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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