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September 24, 2005
AFL: Finals Day IV
The SMH has even published a guide for the uninitiated: Footy - The Basics (see extended entry) which defines enough odds and sods to let you watch the game. Even better is an article by David Williamson entitled The greatest game - free, precise, heroic, with just enough biffo:
Aussie rules is touched and inspired. David Williamson lays it on the line.
I'm a southerner by birth, so shoot me, I'm biased, but Australian rules football is the greatest sports code yet invented.
Hard, but not as brutal as rugby. And unlike soccer, where you can wait a whole game and still not see a goal, it's free scoring, but not ridiculously free scoring like basketball. It features non-stop action as against the stop-start of American football, and as a bonus we get the soaring high mark, the hard running precision passing and the heart pounding tension as a chain of high-speed possessions threatens to unravel.
We are swept up as adrenaline highs triggered by one heroic act reverberate through the crowd and the whole team and the fortunes of the game reverse in an instant. And it features the full palate of athletic skills.
Image from the SMH.
Posted by Ozguru at September 24, 2005 10:00 AM
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