All Austrailian members---I just watched a section on Oz football
on a news type show.Those guys are no candyasses!I saw some
pretty violent things in my years of motorcycle gangs;but those
guys do it all of the time.Does anybody know if there is an injury
list;where you sit things out until your body heals? Irish

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which form of football were u talking about there Irish - AFL, league or union?

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legend---I don't know!It was in progress when I walked in the
room.All that I know is that they were wearing short pants,a tank
type top and no pads.Sorry;but thats all that I saw. Irish
P.S. It was on the Peter Jennings;ABC news show.

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you must be talking about AFL or aerial ping pong as some of us like to call it. being from northern australia, i don't follow it much - i'm a league and union fan. those people get suspended for things league and union players usually don't even get penalised for....

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Irish

These people invited a gridiron star to play off-season.

He watched a game in the flesh and went home.

Couldn't cope with not wearing armour.

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I have “gallic football” games on tape given to me by a friend who is a fan from the local IA Club. I was once asked if I was a communist or a little queer because I don’t get into American spectator sports. I showed them part of the tape and a schedule of the games (that I had picked up at an Irish festival), claiming to be a fan. That shut them up……NOW. It’s kind of like combination of American football, soccer and rugby without padding or rules.:whiteghos

Wait until you see “HURLLING”! It’s played on a soccer type field also, in the same kind of uniforms, with something the size of a softball and EVERY player has a wooden bat. UN-FUCKING BELIEVEABLE! The game goes on while the guys with the stretcher go onto the field and rescue the injured players. The players aren’t “suppose” to interfere with the medics.

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seen them both.....Gaelic football is real man's AFL.....and hurling is just crazy

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pantyfanatic---Have you noticed;how everything is "Safety"
motivated now?When one of my grandsons rides; the small
motorcycle; that his parents got him.He has to put on,chest protecter,helmet,face shield,shin protectors,gloves,arm guards,etc
In my day if I had to put all of that stuff on;to go to the store;I'd
just take my car.You had to wear a helmet on the track.I can see
the sense to that.It's the same with sports now.If you're going to
be "overprotective"about everything;why do anything?There should be a line between safty and overprotectiveness! Irish
P.S.You don't have character until you have at least one scar on
your face!

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Hi Irish,

I cannot let the one sided comments about our great Australaian Game go without putting the perspective of a person who lives in the southern Australian States where Aussie rules or the Australian code of football is so strong it is nearly a religion.

In Queensland and New South Wales the dominant codes are rugby, imported from England whears in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, the Rugby codes are minor sports.

The northern states use derisive terms such as aerial ping pong for Aussie rules, whilst we have terms such as bum sniffing and overground wrestling to describe rugby. Actually to watch any of these football codes played at itts highest level is great. Each has it own set of skills.

I am a devotee of autralian football and played at the second highest level in my time, the Victorian Football Association. The AFL is a nation wide competition where the premiership last year was won by a team from Brisbane the capital of Queensland, a northern state. The AFL has growing support in Queensland though rugby will most likely always remain the dominant code.

The game of Aussie rules is fast moving and tough. As running game tripping is outlawed and the idea is not to have the ball trapped but flowing so it is usually a high scoring game. To take a mark (a catch) allows the player to have a kick without being tackled when in posession. Players take the most spectacular marks, leaping in the air often in a pack of players attempting the same thing. The kicking skills required are difficult to the max. perfectly weighted passes that skim over the ground or find the target to a running player and have enough height to clear opposing players and often executed at top speed. It is very difficult.

I played in a grand final of 20 000 people in my career of 200 senior games. I wear the scars still but it was a highlight of my young life. I have scar tissue in my left lung from when I got a ride off the back of a player to take a high mark but landed on my back from about 7 feet high. I was bleeding from the lung and was coughing bright red blood. Another time I bumped a huge ruckman ( I am small only 5'8") I flattened the guy but broke my collarbone in the process. I also suffered a broken ankle toe a hamstring, numerous fat finger where the ball bends your fingers back attempting to mark. We wear no protective clothing, being a running game it would slow you down. It is a mans game, you need to have courage to play it and it an exciting spectator sport.

Aussir rules is great and I hope you get to see more.

grumbleguts---Thank You,it sounds very interesting.All sports are
good but I have found that you take more interest in the ones that you play yourself.For example:I played many sports but my
passion was gymnastics.People don't realise just the; practice time;that goes into these things unless they are personnaly involved. Irish
P.S.As you no doubt know;alot of pain and injury is involved in that practice time.I specialized in the parallel bars&rings.

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Irish

A slide on a wet road that ground through a pair of flying

boots, jeans and a heavy pair of socks (and my ankle to

the bone) also broke my helmet as I bounced off the rear wheel

of a bus. Helmet = good.

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OF---I'm not saying that helmets are not good;but all safety devices have their Pros&Cons.Seatbelts save people and they also trap people in burning cars!I know of one Massachusetts
resident who was killed because he had a helmet on.He was sitting;waiting to make a left turn;and a semi rear-ended him and
his head snapped back and his helmet broke his neck.He died.
I know that it sounds"Macho"but I have always said that when its
your turn to buy it;it's your turn.I have SEEN people killed at 25MPH;I have been thrown; in racing accidents; at over 100MPH
and walked away.(not to well)When it's your turn;it's your turn.
I know that you could say that it is your choice to be there in the
first place.If I had it to do over;I would.Life without risks is no fun
to me! Irish
P.S.Let those;who ride; decide!
Leathers are to save skin;not look cool!

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