Despite what the other guy said, AFL is terrible compared to 20 years ago. Everyone is too fit and there's no restrictions on where players can be on the field. So it means that the entire team just follows the ball all game.
Oh and the rules may as well be made up for how often they're changed and just flat out not called.
Guy, go and watch the best of Australian Rules footy.
Seriously, just get some beverages and watch a whole season of a sport you don't know and try to work out the rules as you pick a team to follow.
Aussie Rules is a dead-set beut game, with lots of the things you like about basketball. There is high mobility with an emphasis on ball handling skills and teamwork.
Pick and choose chronological games from this play list.
For bonus points get a decent aussie meat pie and eat it with tomato sauce. Make yourself some meat pies for the match. You can expand your culinary horizons at the same time you detox from b-ball.
Yeah, he's the only way I keep up with "real" sports at all anymore.
I quit watching the NBA after about 25 years once the game had devolved into nothing but threes--and its fans keep claiming it's evolved.
The last straw was when I watched my hometown Houston Rockets have a big lead over the Golden State Warriors...and kept shooting threes.
Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank. Clank.
Twenty-seven missed threes in a row.
All because THE ANALYTICS said it was EFFICIENT.
They blew their lead and lost the game. In Game 7. Ending their season.
Here's a great video on that disaster of a game.
The league going woke shortly after, if they weren't already, was just the brown cream on the shit sundae.
By the way, it's only gotten worse since. Have a game where a team's down by two, they have a four-on-one fast break in the final seconds, and...
Despite what the other guy said, AFL is terrible compared to 20 years ago. Everyone is too fit and there's no restrictions on where players can be on the field. So it means that the entire team just follows the ball all game. Oh and the rules may as well be made up for how often they're changed and just flat out not called.
Guy, go and watch the best of Australian Rules footy.
Seriously, just get some beverages and watch a whole season of a sport you don't know and try to work out the rules as you pick a team to follow.
Aussie Rules is a dead-set beut game, with lots of the things you like about basketball. There is high mobility with an emphasis on ball handling skills and teamwork.
Start here.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSqw-3k7lZke8Ta6f9KjnbJ3zipyCxt0&si=9c4D_CRo-4YdNuxp
Pick and choose chronological games from this play list.
For bonus points get a decent aussie meat pie and eat it with tomato sauce. Make yourself some meat pies for the match. You can expand your culinary horizons at the same time you detox from b-ball.
https://www.recipetineats.com/meat-pie-recipe/
I'll call your Australian football and raise you Finnish baseball.
That's a thing. And it's great.
I'm not wasting hours being a vegetable watching sportsball, even if it's run by a penal colony. I will be stealing that recipe, though.