 Wendypants
Female, 30-39, Canada
 1167 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 8:32:53 AM
Aussie Rules Football is the roughest, toughest sport I have ever heard of... the two rules (the only two that I know of and please correct me if I'm wrong) that they have for on-field conduct are: 1) no elbowing, and 2) no tackles below the knees. Yup, that means that anything else is ok. They do not even stop the game if a fight breaks out!! Not even rugby compares, because these guys wear less protective equipment than rugby players! |
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 kirstoner
Female, 18-29, Australia
538 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 6:47:09 AM
Dis it all you want. That was pretty awesome. |
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 evski1975
Male, 30-39, Australia
59 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 6:12:05 AM
"...they were still drinking tinny's and smoking fags at half time in the 70s..."
@apedrana - hahaha! ...I think we had better clarify for users of the North American lexicon that "fags" is an Australian colloquialism for cigarettes. (Lest Aussie rules lose its newly-bestowed "badass" rep!) |
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 apedrana
Male, 18-29, Australia
141 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:23:52 AM
nospoons, you are, as they say, a drating moron. fair enough if you dont understand the game or dont like it, but dont try and break it down and ridicule it, you can apply that same stupid logic to any sport. you obviously dont understand sports whatsoever.
As for you Lionheart2, spoken like a true over the hill hack! the game today has ten times the skill and speed compared to 20years ago. they were still drinking tinny's and smoking fags at half time in the 70s, you just cant compare the two, the sport has evolved, obviously not to your liking, but the fact that the AFL isnt broke and its now the number 1 game in Australia, says its done something right! |
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 nospoons
Male, 18-29, Australia
184 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:06:11 AM
Aussie rules is stupid for the following reasons;
1. It is the only sport where you have 'behinds' a second set of goals around the main ones, you get a point for missing the real goal but being nice and close so you get a point or else you might be sad or cry or something.
2. Restarts and 'kick off's involve the referee throwing the ball backwards over his head and bouncing the ball really hard on the ground respectively. Both totally random and stupid / skill-less.
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GTrain
Male, 18-29, Australia
166 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:31:02 AM
Powerful, powerful metaphore, Lionhart. |
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 xCYBERDYNEx
Male, 18-29, Southern US
4798 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:54:42 PM
Badassness |
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nnotdead
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
137 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:35:24 PM
that was the least special play i have ever seen. |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
8285 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:09:23 PM
> Aussie Football just became the most bad-ass of all sports
Um no, 20 years too late. Back in the 70's and 80's every mark was like this, you weren't a Pro if you couldn't take a high mark like this. Then the game pansied down and the players started trading contracts for skill, so that now a mark like this is rare.
So no, Oz Riles didn't 'just become' badass, just one sunflower doing what was normal 20 years ago in a field of daffodils. |
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 Enjin
Male, 30-39, Asia
731 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:19:55 PM
I'm pretty sure if some guy tried to mount me like that I'd punch him in the penis. Or is that against the rules? |
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 freddyferret
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
9910 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 7:45:24 PM
We need some of this in the NFL. |
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hvf26
Male, 18-29, Australia
192 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:04:59 PM
lol i'm not into aussie rules but i saw this same clip on tv at the gym the other day, pure awesome. |
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darkmagic14n
Male, 18-29, Western US
1634 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:27:30 PM
don't worry paddy, its just a chantard who thinks he's funny for saying 'handegg' in place of football because he can't accept there are many versions of football and the 'typical' football in europe is called soccer (association football) |
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 Mckinneysgay
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
153 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:01:36 PM
uh f uck this poo |
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 SethDog
Male, 18-29, Australia
472 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:47:13 PM
Rugby League > Aussie Rules > Rugby Union > Grid-Iron
4 completely different games. |
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SethDog
Male, 18-29, Australia
472 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:45:40 PM
Saying Rugby and AFL are the same is like saying that netball and basketball are the same.. They have certain similarities but its a completely different ruleset and play of the game. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23998 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:38:51 PM
Aussie rules football. they do this sort of thing quite often |
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 paddy215
Male, 18-29, Europe
1552 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:09:25 PM
"I'm sorry, you had a typo, it's "Aussie Handegg", fore a second I though I would actually see a real football where a foot is used in order to play."
Aussie rules uses the feet to dribble, pass and shoot. You also use your hands of course, but kicking the ball with your foot is a massive part of the game. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9677 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:01:37 PM
Australian (not many) rules football, the hardest version of football. Are there are any other variants of football in which this would be an allowed move? |
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 Solvent
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2764 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:58:35 PM
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 NNoamfer
Male, 13-17, Asia
1033 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:39:25 PM
I'm sorry, you had a typo, it's "Aussie Handegg", fore a second I though I would actually see a real football where a foot is used in order to play. |
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DJHeight5
Male, 18-29, Southern US
25 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:21:43 PM
lol @ loling at people who can't tell the difference between two very similar looking sports. How funny they must be. |
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 ryannn24
Male, 18-29, Europe
83 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:54:35 AM
lol @ everyone saying "i love rugby". Its not rugby. |
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ChrisMunich
Male, 18-29, Europe
383 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:45:12 AM
Some of the differences between rugby and AFL: AFL is played on an oval pitch (usually), AFL uses 11 players (rugby has 15), and the scoring for the kicking is different. Rugby league can be seen as a sort of bridge between Rugby union ('normal' rugby) and AFL. In short the three sports have numerous similarities but are different in certain rules, pitch and scoring. |
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 VAJENGA
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
533 Posts
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:29:24 AM
Then I stand corrected. I've never heard of Australian rules football. Looks like a rugby ball that they're playing with, what are the differences between that game and Rugby? |
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