In AFL, why is the team at the bottom of the ladder awarded the "wooden spoon"?

Question

(I know they don't actually receive a wooden spoon - just wondering where that tradition started? Why the spoon, why not something else?)

Answer 1

wow cossy is so good......

at copying from wikipedia!!!

wow is anyone here capable of thinking of something themself?

or is the asker stupid because they are asking something that they can easily find out for themselves - from wikipedia ?

Answer 2

Its quite simple really

its like this

the wooden spoon always scraps the bottom of the pot

Thus you have reached the Bottom

and it is a common term in lots of sports

in footy the term has been around since day1

Answer 3

I think it has something to do with this

The wooden spoon at Cambridge, England was originally associated with the Cambridge University mathematical tripos exams, and was a kind of booby prize awarded by students to their fellow student ranked lowest in the final exams.

The custom dates back at least to the early 19th century, if not before, and continued until 1909. From 1910 onwards the results have been given in alphabetical rather than score order, and so it is now impossible to tell who has come last - unless there is only one person in the lowest class.

There were actual wooden spoons which became increasingly large, and in latter years measured up to 1.5 metres long. By tradition they were dangled in a teasing way from the upstairs balcony in the Senate House in front of the lowest-ranked recipient when he came before the Vice Chancellor to receive his degree.

The last wooden spoon was awarded to Cuthbert Lempriere Holthouse, an oarsman of the Lady Margaret Boat Club (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/lmbc/) of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1909 at the graduation ceremony in the University's Senate House. The handle is shaped like an oar and inscribed with an epigram in Greek which may be translated as follows:

hey mark so what if i coppied at least im not abusive

the q was asked i showed her a answer thats the way it goes if the asker decides to ignore the answer thats their choice

so then smartboy you tell me

Answer 4

That's kind of weird, but I'm not Australian so I don't know. I didn't know that!

Answer 5

coz they suck

Answer 6

simple......if your being bad at home what do parents do?

they give you the wooden spoon lol. not to keep but they smack your bottom with it

lol my mum did that to me and it broke ahha

no seriously its like a smaking or something for being bad