Take it!
Take it! Just leave me alone!
(Australian Rules Football)
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Didn’t notice until after I posted, but the Australian Football League logo can be clearly seen on the one guy’s jersey. Think the team in black and white stripes is Geelong (pronounced jell-long), but I’m not sure…
Correct, the team without red on its jersey is the Geelong Cats (but the colors are technically white and navy). Can be confusing when they play the Collingwood Magpies (black-and-white VERTICAL stripes). The red-white-black team is the St. Kilda Saints, who lost to the Cats in this year’s grand final (likely source of that picture).
Thanks–am new to veiwing the sport, and none of these guys really stands still long enough to let me distinguish between black or navy stripes
The main reason Geelong stuck in my mind is because (please don’t laugh too hard) I tend to gravitate toward teams whose mascots/logos are animals.
Okay, I take it back–you can laugh if you want.
Knew the black-white-red looked familiar, but couldn’t think of the name. Like I said, the teams with animals stick with me. Now, if they’d been named the St. Kilda Cougars I probably would have been able to remember them…
There is always the Eagles, Crows, Magpies, Bulldogs, Swans, Tigers, Lions… you have lots of animals to choose from.
Wrong..
no!
Rugby and ARF are at least a TINY bit similar: both entail two groups of guys with funky accents and no helmets chasing one another around a field seemingly trying to kill each other over a ball. And both sports are better than ANYTHING we Yanks have got. First, although both sports seem to be no-holds-barred, none of these guys appear to get seriously hurt (but I’m the first to admit I’m probably wrong about that). Second is just the coolness of some of the rules…in rugby you have to pass the ball backwards, and in ARF if you run with the ball for a certain distance you’re supposed to bounce it. (For you US football fans out there–ever try to dribble a football while running with it?) Third, it totally shatters the myth that people with British-type accents are always restrained or stodgy (but reinforces the idea that Aussies are totally nuts). And the main reason ARF is better than anything we’ve got here is the sportsmanship–I’ve watched some games where the guys looked about to kill each other and saw some plays that ended in punches being thrown, yet when the game is over these guys go shake hands and offer genuine congrats to the guys they’ve just been trying to trash. They look like thery’re all gonna pop down to the pub together and buy pints for one another. (Haven’t seen enough rugby to know if the same holds true there.)
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Garry Noel Price (born December 9, 1935, in Brockville, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman.
Price started his National Hockey League career with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1958. He would also play for the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins and Atlanta Flames. He would retire after the 1976 season. He would win one Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1966.
Awards & achievements
WHL Prairie Division Second All-Star Team (1957)
AHL Second All-Star Team (1966)
AHL First All-Star Team (1970, 1972, & 1976)
Eddie Shore Award (AHL) Outstanding Defenceman (1970, 1972, & 1976)
Played in NHL All-Star Game (1967)
Usually we call it AFL (Australian Football League), although technically that’s the name of the league that runs the tournaments, and not the actual name of the game, but whatever.
You can (but generally don’t) dribble the ball in rugby too. Also rugby is one of the few sports I can think of where deliberate foul play has the fouler’s team support calling for him to be sin-binned or even sent off.
Which rugby are you talking about? League or union? Because if you’re talking about league then attempting to dribble the ball would result in a knock-on and a change-over of possession. If you’re talking about union… well I haven’t bothered to learn all of the rules so that’s new to me.
Places they play League. Australia, Lancashire and Yorkshire, so nowhere in the civilised World!
*gasp!*
Canada, Japan, SAfrica, America, and more. There is an actual International comnpetition, but Australia does not compete. Our under 18s could probably slaughter those teams.
Didn’t know there was more than one rugby so didn’t know they could dribble the ball, too. First time I saw a player dribble in an AFL game I thought for a second that he’d dropped the ball.
how does it go? football is a gentleman’s sport for hooligans, rugby is a hooligan sport for gentlemen?
of course that’s referring to soccer-football…but i think its still applicable.
Rugby is a game for hooligans, played by gentlemen. Don’t know about Soccer. *shrug*
Soccer is a game for eunuchs.
Mew2, lol mate i like your review =) btw its AFL not ARF. There will always be at least 2 injuries during a game (grand final a saints player had his nose broken after a rough tackle)
Sorry…was abbreviating Australian Rules Football rather than League. Don’t know too much about either AFL or Rugby except that I LOVE to watch the games (when I can find them on the barren wasteland of sports channels that our cable providers offer). And I stand by my original statement that both are preferable to anything we’ve got here–the little bit I’ve learned about either game came from Wikipedia and You Tube videos, and the rules make far more sense than anything I’ve been able to put together from watching US football through high school. (I was in the marching band so attended the games solely to perform in halftime shows.) Plus our wimpy guys over here have this silly notion of rectangular fields instead of oval ones, and this absurd use of helmets to shelter their fragile skulls. In my opinion if you’ve gotta know all the rules of a game for it to be fun to watch, then there’s no sense in watching.
If anyone wants to point me towards some sites where I can learn more about the teams, players, etc., or where I can find some US sports channel that actually caries the games on a regular basis, I’m listening…
http://www.afl.com.au/ thats the website with all the info you need about australian rules football the best game on the planet to play and watch you americans have your own team but theyre really slow and theres an international competition but australia is not allowed to compete cause we would just dominate until you guys got better http://www.afl.com.au/international%20cup/tabid/10241/default.aspx thats the international site
it`s AFL just to tell you. and we`re not crazy.
Rugby is just a msh up of thickheads, who will bop eachother one easily instead of learning to kick….however i am totally biased towards AFL XDDD
Ohgod. That’s epic
such amazing faces XD
It was a bit sad for the Saints – they haven’t won a premiership since ‘66. Still, the important thing is that Collingwood didn’t win.
so im the only one who laughed when they lost?
i agree with you about collingwood though
Collingwood rules!!!!
collingwood do many things, but rule isnt one of them
To be fair, they are very good at being unpopular. I know people who dislike them and have never seen as Aussie Rules game.
they go on about having the biggest supporter base in the league, and yet they choose to forget that the rest of the country only watches their games to watch them lose
There’s usually one team in the top division of any professional sports league that gets this on a national level. My point about Collingwood is that they’ve managed to take being that unpopular to a whole World scale!
Eddie Everywhere has been a large part of that success in recent years. BTW Ohai paws!
You might want to see your doctor about that. Apparently loving Collingwood is a risk factor for a myriad of terrible diseases.
We have several types of football in Aus, the above picture depicting Australian Rules Football. We also have Rugby Union, which everyone else in the world plays (except for you ‘mericans
) and Rugby League which is sort of confined to Aus, NZ and the UK. Australian Rules is kinda like basketball, on a large field, where you have to tackle each other and kick the ball through the goals. A lot of players (like the centers) can end up running 15km (about 12-13miles) per match, which has four 15minute quaters. Rugby Union and League are similar, and are strategic games, in which you have to pass the ball to break the ‘line’ of the other team to get into the scoring zone (like a touchdown) but you can only pass the ball backwards. This creates the situation of large men with legs like treetrunks running at each other with no padding or helmets, colliding, hitting each other, etc etc. They also wear short shorts… ^_^
Oh yeah, we also play soccer and we call it soccer like you ‘mericans because we have too many other things called football
its funny, on a football(soccer) forum i frequent i was given a bunch of sh!t from some English dudes for calling their it soccer (im a yank lol)…which is understandable since a sport using pretty much just your feet should be called football….but its always easy to get them to shut up when you let them know the term “soccer” originated in England (its an abbreviation of sorts for association….as in association football)
and that’s my tidbit of the day! lol
Edit: Meant to be four 20 minute quaters…
CARN THE CATS!!!
Poor Sainters, they tried… But YAY! An AFL picture got up here!
i agree on the ‘YAY! afl pic’ side of things, but have to disagree with u about the ‘carn the cats’ side of it. fkn nail-bighter if ever i’ve seen one. i was at the bar FKN SCREAMING MY LUNGS OUT!!! tho, well done kittehs, they did play good
xo
that was an epic match
im surprised the saints lost like that tho
I once saw a bit of an Australian Rules game on TV; I saw a player running down the field with the ball, a player from the other side came up to tackle him, and ball carrier slammed his elbow back in the face of the would-be tackler. The refs did nothing and the commentators didn’t say anything, so I presume that this is both legal and not unusual.
Unless you’re Barry Hall. Good luck to the ‘dogs with keeping that pitbull in check!
That may have been the guy I saw punch the player from the other team when all the other guy was doing was trying to get out from under him after they both hit the ground…
Yep, that was him, and not just once but he has done it several times.
But doesn’t a pitbull eventually let go?
Sounds unusual to me as an avid fan of the sport. I’d have to guess that it was either a game from 20 or so years ago, some form of rugby, or you’re exaggerating the incident, because that would most definitely be a free kick.
And at least a two game suspension for the guy doing the hitting.
It wasn’t deliberate if it was Rugby Union, because deliberate foul play will have both sets of fans yelling for you to be sent off.
Well, it was certainly deliberate. And as for the form of the game, as a dumb Yank I can’t say, but they were wearing the sleeveless jerseys of Australian Rules (!?) Football. Unless Rugby players in Australia wear them too?
Yay Footie!
AFL SUX ASS… GO NRL!!
NRL is so repetitive! Rugby Union is way better.
gayest sport EVER.
Didn’t make the cut on your local team, eh?
Best sport ever.
Coming from someone who hates most sports.
Geelong for life.
I like Geelong.. and thank God Fevola is off to Bisbane!
supporting essendon from leeds wo
Carn the saints? Btw, the scared-looking guy is Leigh Montagna.