Nostalgia's a funny thing.
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It allows us to look back fondly on an experience and enjoy the happy feelings.
If we're not careful, we can make the mistake of thinking that, because it was good back then, surely it is something we should have now. Because it would be just as good.
Old bands reforming and going back on tour is one example of that. You remember what they were like 20 years ago and then you go to the gig and it's like, "jeez, these guys are really old".
Rugby league seems rife with the "things were better in the old days" view of the game.
Take scrums for example. Some call for the game to go back to the old days when the scrum was "a contest".
I was watching footy back then - and scrums were a mess.
They'd collapse and have to be reset, which would waste time. Even when they didn't collapse, they came close and everyone had to stand around waiting for the ball to eventually come out.
That sounds great. Lets bring that back.
People may have liked those scrums because it was how the game was back when they were young - it's driven by nostalgia.
But if you actually took those sorts of scrums and transplanted them into today's game, it would look awful.
I like watching old footy games from the 1970s and '80s - but I'm smart enough to realise it's because of the rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia.
I'll even admit to enjoying a bit of the on-field fisticuffs that featured in games back then, but I know that's easy to do with the safety of distance.
I enjoy it because it's a piece of my past, not because it's something that should still be taking place today.
Who wants today's games to be played on poorly-kept fields, with waterlogged leather balls, toe-poking kickers and scrums that collapse, end up in a penalty or a fight?
Which brings me to the Fox League decision to resuscitate the Rex Mossop-led Controversy Corner.
The late 1970s-early '80s panel show featuring ex-players is now enjoyable because of its kitsch retro value.
The memories of panelists in skivvies and leather jackets, guests getting rubbish gifts like Patra orange juice, hams and smallgoods are great.
In bringing Controversy Corner to the modern era it loses all that charm. It becomes yet another show where a bunch of footy dinosaurs bang on about stuff.
Maybe it'll have some retro value in about 20 years' time but now? Nope.