World Footy News

On Friday February 8th USFooty held its first ever press conference to announce the 2008 USFooty National Tournament in Colorado Springs, CO. USFooty bills the tournament as the largest Australian Football Carnival in the world. While an early to mid October date is expected, USFooty is waiting on Air Force and the Mountain West Conference to announce the 2008 football schedule. The tournament will be played on the lush grounds of the Academy's vast Cadet Athletic Fields.

USFooty's announcement was reported in the local press and on the AP wire, as follows.

USFooty a Good Match for Springs by Ralph Routon of the Colorado Spring Independent

If you're old enough to have watched sports on television during the 1980s, chances are you spent more than a time transfixed by one game in particular on ESPN.

That game was, and still is, Australian rules football.

After ESPN's birth in 1979, and before it grew big enough to televise the top levels of American pro football, baseball and basketball, the network filled countless hours of programming with taped replays of Aussie football telecasts.

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Air Force wil Host National Tournament by Bob Stevens of the Air Force Academy's The Gazette

The U.S. Australian Football League took root with its first championship just outside Cincinnati, near a barn in the cornfields of eastern Indiana.

The 12th version of that national tournament — now the largest in the world for its sport — is scheduled in October at Air Force Academy’s athletic fields.

“It sends goose bumps up my spine to think about how far we’ve come since the beginning,” said Paul O’Keeffe, USAFL’s founding president. “Today was the launching pad for the next 10 years.”

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Australian Football League Tourny Set of Oct. in Colorado Springs by AP (Posted by The Daily Sentinel)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The United States Australian Football League national tournament is set for October at the Air Force Academy.

The event, billed as the world's largest Australian Football tourney will pit 32 men's teams in four divisions and up to six women's teams. The USAFL tournament will also feature a national netball event.

The dates will be announced after the Air Force football schedule is released next month. It will either be the second or third weekend of October.

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There is also footage of the press conference here on Youtube.