It looks like they’re having to adhere to that post-game handshake ritual. It’s a dumb custom considering we encourage animosity during the sporting event itself. I love so many things about sports, just not watching or participating in them or supporting any person or team of persons. Basically just some movies and documentaries about sports and sports bloopers.
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Confusing… @_@ this is why I never got into sports.
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I always thought having two teams (Collingwood and North Melbourne) with uniforms that were difficult to distinguish from a distance was a bad idea.
I think it was worse in the old VFL days - North Melbourne’s blue was a shade darker, IIRC.
Indeed it is.
Leicester’s rugby team is actually officially called Leicester Football Club (and is older than the actual football club).
It’s salmon, thank you very much
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That’s not a Manly handshake. It’s a Geelong one.
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I have gay pornos that start like that.
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Maybe shaking hands isn’t the dumb part.
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Haha, the argument for the tight sleeveless jumpers and tight short shorts is that it makes it harder for your opponents to get a hold of you during a tackle, whether in pursuit of you while you’ve got the ball or while you’re both contesting it.
Doesn’t seem to bother most folks here. I played for about 13 years - gave it up at around 25 - and it was just part of the game. Nobody really thought about it much. Some of the guys wore the tightest gear they could get into, while others (like me) preferred a looser fit.
All I know is that it’s generally considered part of the game’s appeal that these buff guys are wearing tight gear while running around and wrestling.
Not being part of either target demographic, I have to wonder if ass-patting is more or less common in gay porn than in American football.
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Wow, the Geelong player is pretty mellow.
A prime example of how Australian Football is played:
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Mate. Football as in footy. Fark, youse foreigners wouldn’t know a decent sport if it dug a knee if your back and took a speccy right over your head.
/occa bullshit.
Aussie rules football, a sport as fast and chaotic as ice hockey, as high scoring as basketball, which is generally played on fields also used for cricket matches (so they’re big). Players have to run and catch balls a lot, but they’re not allowed to throw the ball, so they must either kick or handball it instead. Players are very fit, but the sport lacks the control and finesse of that other game most the world calls football, or the brute strength and brutality of rugby, or even the war game like strategy of American Football. We do however, give players points for trying, even if they don’t quite score a goal…
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The many codes of football:
- Association Football (Soccer)
- Rugby Football Union (Rugby Union)
- Rugby League Football (Rugby League, footy).
- American Football
- Canadian Football
- Australian Rules Football (Aussie Rules, footy)
- Gaelic Football
Hull Football Club play Rugby League
Blackheath Football Club play Rugby Union ( it was a founder member of both The Football Association and the Rugby Football Union)
etc
It’s all part of the history of codifying the rules of football back in the mid 1800s, and disagreements over whether hacking down players was going to be allowed - Francis Maule Campbell said banning hacking would “do away with all the courage and pluck from the game, and I will be bound over to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week’s practice.”
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So I guess Australian rules football teams don´t have away colours?
They do. In the case of the 'Pies (Collingwood), the home kit is black with white stripes, while the away kit is white with black stripes, which isn’t confusing at all. Or so I’m told.
Although as a banana-bender, the old Cross-Country Ballet still slightly baffles me. Last time I went to see the Lions play, people gave me funny looks for joining in with “La Marseillaise” but the kick-about on the pitch after the game was fun.
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I think he meant sports, rather than games.
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