STATE of Origin stars Tyrone Peachey and Tyson Frizell had a little too much fun during the NSW team photo, pulling off an incredible prank.
NSW wrapped up the 2018 State of Origin series after securing back-to-back victories and ahead of Game 3, they’re having some fun.
As the players took their positions for the traditional team photo, Tyson Frizell and Tyrone Peachey couldn’t help themselves.
The duo pulled off the incredible prank of displaying the cheeky circle game sign which sees them join the likes of former cricketer Adam Gilchrist and AFL player Jack Riewoldt.
For those unaware, the hilarious tactic involves tricking people into looking at your finger and thumb shaped into a circle and being held below your waist, it then allows the pranker to punch anyone who looks at the sign in the arm.
The game was made famous by American sitcom Malcolm in the Middle and has made a resurgence through sports stars displaying it at the perfect moment.
Riewoldt chose the grandest stage of all to pull off the hilarious prank when he did so on the premiership podium after helping guide Richmond to the flag.
Gilchrist then took the stunt onto live television during coverage ahead of a Big Bash match and was filmed drawing in viewers to a “training apparatuses” on the ground before play, only to have them view his fingers made into a circle.
Their pranks will now be forever immortalised on the official team photos and will earn them a lifetime of free arm punches for anyone who dares gaze upon the image.
PEARCE’S VEILED SWIPE AT QLD
Injuries cruelled Mitchell Pearce’s chances of joining his NSW Blues teammates in their demolition job of the QLD Maroons.
Despite watching on from the sidelines, the playmaker has landed a hefty blow ahead of 3 at Suncorp Stadium.
Queensland have long reigned supreme in the gauntlet of Origin, but NSW have turned the tables on them this year and Pearce believes their cloak of invincibility has vanished.
“The aura that once intimated a lot of us, had diminished,” Pearce wrote for nrl.com.