It was one of the longest-running, intense and - for rugby league fans at least - funniest rivalries of the past decade, and now Michael Ennis and Nathan Hindmarsh have revealed more details about the genesis of their feud and the night it nearly threatened to boil over.
The night in question was round six, 2011, when Ennis' sledging was too much for Hindmarsh - then the captain of the struggling Eels - who threw a few hay-makers and was sin-binned for his troubles.
But the pair had been going back-and-forth with each other for years beforehand.
"We'd had an ongoing battle for a number of years, me and Hindy, for some reason he took a disliking to me," said Ennis as he appeared alongside Hindmarsh on The Professor's Late Hit on Friday night.
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"I was fed up with the flopping - time and time again.
"He took a disliking to me because he flopped in on Ben Barba and he said 'if you touch me again, I'll job ya.'
"That was music to my ears. I said 'we've been pushing and shoving for years, let's get it on.'
"The handbrake came up and whooska, he came back.
"That's all. That's all that was said."
Not one to back down, Hindmarsh responded: "That's all that was needed to be said. I was like a caged animal."
It was a tough gig captaining the Eels at the time, with Parramatta going on to claim the Wooden Spoon.
Hindy said he let his emotions get the better of him when he called Ennis a grub in the post-match presser after the match.
"I was pissed off. I had the shits. I've since retracted that statement - not with any meaning," he joked.
"No I have. I apologised. What goes on the field should stay on the field.
"I broke that in the press conference."
Ennis and Hindmarsh later roomed together in Origin camp, and the pair have a good working relationship at Fox Sports.
But both of them say that infamous sledge in 2011 is the question they get asked the most.
"Every worksite I walk past, I reckon someone sticks their head out and says 'what did you say to Hindmarsh?'" Ennis said in 2017.
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