Blue boys >:o

[Arseface]

Blue boys >

Well, not that any of you care, but I am lamenting the fact that my chosen AFL team has been kicked out of the finals series by a last minute, come from behind win. If any of you ever decide to start following AFL, then I advise against choosing the Brisbane Lions as your team, for I will get you.\


*sigh* sad face.

 

[SaintHermit]

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I have to admit, the Lions rule, because Brisbane rules.

 

[Zarkes]

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whats AFL?

 

[droded]

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Australian Football League I think.

 

[Arseface]

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I have to admit, the Lions rule, because Brisbane rules.

You will perish.

whats AFL?

Australian Football League I think.

Yeah. We play Australian Rules Football. It's played on an area the size of a cricket pitch, with a cross between a Gridiron ball and a Rubgy ball. There are two big sticks at each end, and two little ones on either side. If you get it through the big ones it's six points, the little ones, it's one point. 22 players on each side, including four on the bench. It's the most flowing, athletic and tough game in the world. Probably.

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[Another Spartan]

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Why are they as tan as me?

 

[Walker]

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Here's the deal, Arseface-- I'll start watching Aussie football when Aussies start watching American. The problem there being... some of you already do, but I have no idea how I'd watch Aussie football.

What I'd really love to see would be bootleg videos from the US soldier-vs-Aussie WWII-era American/Aussie-combo-style football. Somehow, I doubt they exist.

Also, I will commiserate. I root for the Washington Redskins (please, no one preach to me about the name. I know.) and we lose very well. I blame it on the fact that everyone else in the NFC (National Football Conference of the National Football League) is damn good.

Oh, and how do you cross a football and a rugby ball? Squash down a football and paint it white? I've only ever seen a rugby ball once. I mean, hell, LACROSSE is bigger than rugby around here. (Sorry, yes, but I'm still calling it a football.)

Also, that is a very odd-looking game... but I think that has more to do with the fact that all the players are wearing what look like 80s-era basketball shorts than anything else. Kinda... soccer-y American football, if I had to describe it personally. But that's probably just because, like I said, I've never seen rugby played.

EDIT: And don't ask what disturbing thoughts I had when I saw a thread about "blue boys."

 

[Arseface]

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Here's the deal, Arseface-- I'll start watching Aussie football when Aussies start watching American. The problem there being... some of you already do, but I have no idea how I'd watch Aussie football.

I've heard tell of it being shown late at night on American TV. The Grand Final is coming up in a few weeks (it's always the last Saturday in September. It'd be Sunday for Yanks coz of the time difference), which might be a big enough even to be shown internationally. We typically get a hundred thousand people to the game.

And I've tried to get into American football (my friends even talked me into playing some Madden game on PS3.) It was the most boring thing. Run - stop - run - stop, and so on until someone runs over the line. I'll admit it can be interesting, but only when the reciever (I'm now out of my depth) recieves the ball from the quarterback. There's just no momentum or flow in it.

Oh, and how do you cross a football and a rugby ball? Squash down a football and paint it white? I've only ever seen a rugby ball once. I mean, hell, LACROSSE is bigger than rugby around here. (Sorry, yes, but I'm still calling it a football.)

Well, a rugby ball is pretty fat, and American footballs are pretty pointy. AFL balls are about halfway.

Also, that is a very odd-looking game... but I think that has more to do with the fact that all the players are wearing what look like 80s-era basketball shorts than anything else. Kinda... soccer-y American football, if I had to describe it personally. But that's probably just because, like I said, I've never seen rugby played.

I can see how it would look odd to outsiders, but anyone who get's into it will really love it.

 

[Walker]

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I've heard tell of it being shown late at night on American TV. The Grand Final is coming up in a few weeks (it's always the last Saturday in September. It'd be Sunday for Yanks coz of the time difference), which might be a big enough even to be shown internationally. We typically get a hundred thousand people to the game.

And I've tried to get into American football (my friends even talked me into playing some Madden game on PS3.) It was the most boring thing. Run - stop - run - stop, and so on until someone runs over the line. I'll admit it can be interesting, but only when the reciever (I'm now out of my depth) recieves the ball from the quarterback. There's just no momentum or flow in it.



Well, a rugby ball is pretty fat, and American footballs are pretty pointy. AFL balls are about halfway.

I can see how it would look odd to outsiders, but anyone who get's into it will really love it.

I'll have to look into it.

Football is a slower game, but let's face it: the two biggest spectator sports in the US are baseball and football. It pains me to admit this, but compared to baseball, football games are positively fast-paced. Plus, it gains something when you got all your family gathered 'round screaming at that dumbass Jason Candle and shoveling food in their faces.

I see.

And yeah, I wasn't really being insulting, just in case it sounded that way. Any game will look odd to people who don't see it played every day. It isn't a judgement on the game itself.

 

[Arseface]

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Football is a slower game, but let's face it: the two biggest spectator sports in the US are baseball and football. It pains me to admit this, but compared to baseball, football games are positively fast-paced. Plus, it gains something when you got all your family gathered 'round screaming at that dumbass Jason Candle and shoveling food in their faces.

As I see it, Gridiron is like AFL like Baseball is like Cricket. I love Cricket, and from what I've seen of Baseball, I think I'd enjoy that aswell.

 

[Tsuyu]

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Blue boys - 'boys' being a common nickname for one's balls, testicles.

Made me laugh.

 

[ScareCrowReturn]

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Hahahaha.. Blue Balls..

I get that alot..

 

[Arseface]

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Blue boys - 'boys' being a common nickname for one's balls, testicles.

Made me laugh.

I didn't know that... I may have said something else otherwise...

Hahahaha.. Blue Balls..

I get that alot..

Why....?

 

[Walker]

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As I see it, Gridiron is like AFL like Baseball is like Cricket. I love Cricket, and from what I've seen of Baseball, I think I'd enjoy that aswell.

Not sure about cricket-- the only time I ever saw anyone playing it was when I was driving through my neighborhood and this Indian (maybe, they looked it) family was having a party and some kids were out front with cricket bats. I know they both came from the sam origins, but I'm not sure how similar the two games are.

Blue boys - 'boys' being a common nickname for one's balls, testicles.

Made me laugh.

Yeah. You're telling me.

 

[Arseface]

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Not sure about cricket-- the only time I ever saw anyone playing it was when I was driving through my neighborhood and this Indian (maybe, they looked it) family was having a party and some kids were out front with cricket bats. I know they both came from the sam origins, but I'm not sure how similar the two games are.

Well, they're analougus to each other, but not really similar at all.

And Indians are mad cricket fans. They have one of the best teams in the world.

 

[Walker]

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Well, they're analougus to each other, but not really similar at all.

And Indians are mad cricket fans. They have one of the best teams in the world.

Yeah, but they both came from... rounders? Not sure how much like baseball that was, or how much like cricket.

And yeah, that's why I was assuming they were an Indian family. Their house is far enough from mine that I don't know them. I suppose they could be Pakistani or something, though. I have a general idea of who plays cricket, I just don't know much about the game itself. Plus, soemtime last year there was a little news article about the Redskins cheerleaders going to India to cheer at cricket games or something like that. It was very odd.

 

[Arseface]

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Yeah, but they both came from... rounders? Not sure how much like baseball that was, or how much like cricket.

It's essentially baseball but using a small cricket bat instead of a baseball bat.

 

[Walker]

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It's essentially baseball but using a small cricket bat instead of a baseball bat.

Wikipedia? Or did you actually know that off the top of your head? If you actually knew that, I'll have to be very impressed.

 

[Arseface]

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Wikipedia? Or did you actually know that off the top of your head? If you actually knew that, I'll have to be very impressed.

I knew that, but only because we used to play it in primary school.