The simmering bromance between NRL players Hudson Young and Morgan Smithies is still flourishing despite an incident with an inflatable toy in Las Vegas.
Young and Smithies earned nominations for The Frownlow Medal but missed the opportunity to consumate their bromance at the Las Vegas hotel, where they are preparing to play their first match of the season.
The Frownlow Medal is awarded to the player whose off-field demeanour epitomises the values of the modern-day footballer and draws attention to the status of footballers as role models to young Australians. It covers Australia’s four major football codes: the men’s and women’s National Rugby League (NRL), Australian Football League (AFL), the A-League (Football) and Rugby Union’s Super Rugby competition. NRL player Shaun Kenny-Dowall won the inaugural medal in 2015, while NRL star Ezra Mam is the most recent recipient.
The Canberra Raiders players were briefly kicked out of the Resorts World hotel after scuffling in the elevator with an inflatable baseball bat. It is not possible to confirm or deny whether ‘Love in an Elevator’, by Aerosmith, was playing at the time.
The duo had returned from having a few drinks when they discovered that one of them was without a room.
According to media reports, they decided to wrestle for the room and the baseball bat was introduced. Security cameras caught the pair locked in an embrace after one of them bumped an emergency button that alerted guards, who began watching the players on the hotel precinct’s network of 5000 security cameras.
They were then kicked out and soon after allowed back into the premises.
The bromance between the close friends was about to heat up when Smithies suggested he just sleep in Young’s bed — but Young rejected the move.
Complicating the bromance even further, when one of them was shown to their room, it was already occupied by a Penrith Panthers player.
It is believed that player decided not to sleep with the enemy.
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The Frownlow Medal 