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Authored by: Wayne Kraska
on Saturday, September 15 2007 @ 11:58 pm ACST

As a good friend related to me the other day and I think he was right on the money. When Americans say "oh thats Rugby isnt it?" What they are really saying is, I dont understand that game or the rules or know what the eff is going on, so it must be Rugby. Lumping every similar game they dont know crap about, union, league, gaelic and Aussie into one big pile of, "I dont know that sh*t, so it must be rugby.

Sav is just another small step towards education of the masses. But it does start at the top (commentators) and its not unusual for them to be wrong is it.?

No it's not rugby

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Monday, September 17 2007 @ 11:55 am ACST

And sadly we can't just refer to it as 'Australian Football', because the soccer folk think they own that term. It's amazing even in Australia how many people think that 'Australian Rules' is the 'official name'.

At any rate - possibly the worst thing is that many people have set out describing Aust Footy as a bit like Rugby - which doesn't help. Now, if they started with 'imagine a game of basketball on a large grassed oval with 18 players each on the field......and kicking....."

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