When the Adelaide Football Club announced they would wear the South Australian Football jumper, it was an assault on the very values this great country was built on.

Apart from ‘mateship’ and ‘always wave when a driver gives way in a side street,’ the bedrock of our society is ‘never dishonour a footy jumper from a format we long gave up on because the players didn’t want to do it and the fans didn’t go.’

We were all taught this as kids. You know, I know it and the Adelaide Crows damn well knew it too.

Now the Southern Territory is divided into those that disagree with David Koch and those who are annoyed they have to agree with David Koch.

People are dead, homes are destroyed, quince paste has been spilled and the streets are stained with Farmer’s Union Iced Coffee.

All this turmoil because the Adelaide Crows marketing team got too drunk one night to design a new clash jumper.

If there can be any positive out of this frightening period of civil unrest, it’s that it can refocus us back onto what’s important in life.

The hustle and bustle of life gets you focusing on trivial things like job losses, industrial relations and health and education reform.

Perhaps this event happened to remind us that footy is almost back and it’s time to focus on what matters.