Watching the Aussie Rules Football

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 06/13/2020 at 00:16 • Filed to: aussie rules

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I’m pretty sure this game has rules, but I think there are only about four of them. 

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 00:51

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its great!

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 01:34

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How did they capture such  perfect hair placement in the midst of that action? That’s art, that is.

SmugAardvark > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 03:07

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It’s fascinating to watch. But yeah, I generally have no idea what’s going on.

Tangentially speaking, one of my employees is from Fiji, and was trying to explain cricket to me. I was thoroughly confused for most of the lesson. Got my revenge though. I tried to explain to him the finer points of baseball and both their written and unwritten rules.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 04:41

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Aussie rules football is best football as far as I'm concerned. Where are you watching it? Like sumo, I don't know where to find it...

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 09:32

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Ahhh, that brings back memories of watching it late at night on ESPN back in the early 90s. At the time, I developed a vague understanding of it, but that’s long gone now. It is fun to watch, though.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 10:21

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Why? The lack of both it and the rugby league has been the one major benefit of Covid-19 to date!

Grindintosecond > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 10:42

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It was on 80's ESPN when they first started as filler until they got more content developed. I loved watching it. They also showed Gaelic Hurling which is a bunch Englishmen with axe handles swinging them everywhere trying to catch a baseball in the air . Totally safe.

I loved those sports they showed. More action and involvement than waiting for plays in football/baseball. Being ten was awesome then.

ttyymmnn > SmugAardvark 06/13/2020 at 11:41

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I will watch cricket when I get a chance. The international test matches, which can last days, move at a glacial pace, but the limited overs matches, which go about three hours, are great. 

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 06/13/2020 at 11:42

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It’s on ESPN or ESPN2. Since they’re on the other side of the world, the matches start late here in the US.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 06/13/2020 at 11:44

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When I was a kid, we played a game at recess called Smear the Queer. Of course, you couldn’t call it that now, but the idea was that you got a bunch of kids together, and a ball. Didn’t matter what kind of ball--football, kickball ball, whatever. Then you tackled the shit out of whoever had the ball. If you didn’t want to get tackled, you threw the ball to somebody else. I am convinced that Aussie Rules is just a somewhat more organized version of that. 

ttyymmnn > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 06/13/2020 at 11:45

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I’m not much of a League  fan. I much prefer Rugby Union.

ttyymmnn > Grindintosecond 06/13/2020 at 11:48

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I used to get a sports channel on my Dish called Setanta Sports. They showed all sorts of sports from Europe etc and they used to show Hurling and Gaelic Football. Crazy sports, those were, but I really enjoyed watching different things. That’s where I started watching international rugby in earnest, and cricket. I wish we got more stuff like that here. 

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 06/13/2020 at 15:50

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Yes, I remember that game. The name is terrible now, of course.

Seems about right regarding Aussie rules.  

Nauraushaun > ttyymmnn 06/14/2020 at 16:56

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As a Melbournian who grew up with afl I actually don't understand when people say this haha