Aussie Rules Football

whatshouldicareabout

Any other fans on here?

Watching Richmond just dominate Greater Western Sydney today. 28-1 right now.

BennyBeaver

Sad day for #MyGiants

MikeDamone

Better than girls soccer.

whatshouldicareabout

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer watching Aussie rules over all the other forms of football out there, like CFL, arena football, and rugby.

• 3 downs in CFL sucks and breaks up the action.
  
• arena football field is too small
  
• rugby doesn't have the kick-ass Australian commentators
  

Hippopeteamus

whatshouldicareabout said:

Any other fans on here?

Watching Richmond just dominate Greater Western Sydney today. 28-1 right now.

Richmond has a great team song.

Hippopeteamus

whatshouldicareabout said:

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer watching Aussie rules over all the other forms of football out there, like CFL, arena football, and rugby.

• 3 downs in CFL sucks and breaks up the action.
  
• arena football field is too small
  
• rugby doesn't have the kick-ass Australian commentators
  

Gaelic Football and Aussie Rules are great. International rules is fun (although better when they had more fights between the Irish and the Australians).
And perhaps the greatest incident to ever happen in any match occured during an international rules game:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvIu8XxUKIw

The three downs in CFL does suck when neither team can move the ball, but I sort of wish the incorporated the kicking rules from CFL into football instead of getting rid of kicking altogether (onside kicks on punts and field goals, no fair catch).

DerekJohnson

MikeDamone said:

Better than girls soccer.

did one of their star players say "fuck The Lodge!!"??

whatshouldicareabout

Hippopeteamus said:

whatshouldicareabout said:

Any other fans on here?

Watching Richmond just dominate Greater Western Sydney today. 28-1 right now.

Richmond has a great team song.

I'd love to have a UW version of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVx3Is7BDn4

PurpleThrobber

whatshouldicareabout said:

Hippopeteamus said:

whatshouldicareabout said:

Any other fans on here?

Watching Richmond just dominate Greater Western Sydney today. 28-1 right now.

Richmond has a great team song.

I'd love to have a UW version of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVx3Is7BDn4

I feel like I should take a 3 martini lunch and sexually harass fuck my administrative assistant secretary after listening to that.

BuffBuffPass

whatshouldicareabout said:

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer watching Aussie rules over all the other forms of football out there, like CFL, arena football, and rugby.

• 3 downs in CFL sucks and breaks up the action.
  
• arena football field is too small
  
• rugby doesn't have the kick-ass Australian commentators
  

Rugby has Australian commentators for Australian games. HTH.

Anyway, rugby has a real international game with an actual World Cup, unlike any of the other forms of football you name. Before even getting into anything else, that makes it superior.

BennyBeaver

So pumped for #MyGiants making their first ever Granny.

WillyRBeek

I've followed the AFL on and off. I got the AFLTV package for the first time in a few years last season. One year too late though unfortunately, as my Eagles had just won the Premiership the year before.

Planning on getting it again this time around.

YellowSnow

I like to call it "footy". I've been to Australia a couple of time and am practically a native.

dnc

1to392831weretaken

Hippopeteamus said:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvIu8XxUKIw

The dog is the least confusing part of this video.

What the actual fuck is going on in that game!? I need to look up some Aussie football rules, apparently.

PurpleThrobber

1to392831weretaken said:

Hippopeteamus said:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LvIu8XxUKIw

The dog is the least confusing part of this video.

What the actual fuck is going on in that game!? I need to look up some Aussie football rules, apparently.

It's a highly evolved version of Smear the Queer.

RaceBannon

It became legendary on early ESPN

DerekJohnson

whatshouldicareabout said:

Any other fans on here?

Watching Richmond just dominate Greater Western Sydney today. 28-1 right now.

In the mid 80s I used to skip school and watch Aussie football and the CFL on ESPN during weekdays

RoadDawg55

Used to watch Aussie Football with a bloke from Sidney in LA. Fucking loved the guy. Miss my Aussie Brother #nohomo.

WillyRBeek

DerekJohnson said:

whatshouldicareabout said:

Any other fans on here?

Watching Richmond just dominate Greater Western Sydney today. 28-1 right now.

In the mid 80s I used to skip school and watch Aussie football and the CFL on ESPN during weekdays

Why in gods name would anyone want to watch the CFL?
Even here in Canada it's not very popular, outside of the Prairie Provinces.

WillyRBeek

For those of you in desperate need of your sports fix, the AFL restarted their season this week, and there have been a number of really great games.

I have the WatchAFL package, which allows you to watch every game life, or anytime afterwards at your own leisure.
Something I also didn't realize about the package until a few days ago, is they have every game up dating back to and including the 2017 season.

In other words, i've basically been doing nothing besides binge watching Aussie Rules Football for the last few days.