What Origin Means To: Mark Geyer
Matt Encarnacion, nrl.com
It’s one of the greatest, all-time Origin mysteries: Why didn’t NSW firebrand Mark Geyer, standing toe-to-toe with Queensland icon Wally Lewis in the driving rain at the old Sydney Football Stadium, just throw the damn punch?
Almost 13 years on and Geyer still can’t tell you why. But one of league’s most intimidating big men of the ’90s at least knows one thing – that time-stopping moment would’ve been a non-event if he did.
“Everyone says to me about that run-in with Wally, ‘Why didn’t you hit him?'” Geyer, now host of Triple M Sydney’s The Grill Team, tells NRL.com.
