Welcome to World Footy News Saturday, April 26 2025 @ 02:51 pm ACST
San Diego hold on to their #1 ranking in the first regular season Top 10
Poll. The only change between this poll and the
Preseason
USFooty Top 10 is that young NC Tigers dropped from 9th down to 10th, while
Chicago took over the 9th ranking.
Philadelphia's
Daily News ran their front page article on Saverio Rocca's attempt to become
the
Philadelphia
Eagles punter in 2007. The front page pictured Sav holding an NFL ball
and a USFooty ball. Rocca is trying to displace current punter Dirk
Johnson. The Eagles are also looking for Rocca to take over holding
duties, much as Ben Graham does for the
New York Jets.
Rocca is currently listed as 50-50 to get the spot but has done well with his
hang-time clocked at 5.4 seconds which is well above the required 4.5
seconds. Rocca follows in the footsteps of Darren Bennett and Ben
Graham. Mat McBriar the All-Star punter for the Dallas Cowboys is also
Australian although McBriar never played in the AFL.
In a great day for footy, the
Baltimore
Washington Eagles (8th in our poll) defeated the
North
Carolina Tigers (9th in our poll) by just 2 points at Thompson Park in Raleigh North
Carolina. While the weather reports were threatening rain for game time,
the rain held off and the temperatures stayed in the upper 60s. According
to the
preseason
WFN Poll there was little between these two teams going in to the match and
the score line suggest there was little between them at the end.
The
Baltimore
Washington Eagles (8) and the
North
Carolina Tigers (9) kick off their seasons on Saturday (5/5) in Raleigh,
NC - our first
top-10
clash of the season. The game is officially a "pre-season" game as
it doesn't count for Eastern Australian Football League (EAFL) points, although
it is not clear that the teams are taking it that way. According to first
year Tiger's Coach, Jason Heathcote "At the end of the day, if we are going to
bleed on the field, it might as well be for something!"
 | James (pictured left) and Jared Brunmeier (pictured at end of story) hail from Wisconsin, but since December they have been
in Perth trying to make the grade in the Western Australian Football League (the
WAFL is a AAA league for footy). The Brunmeier boys are completing the
second stage of the first year exchange program between the
West Perth
Falcons and the
Milwaukee
Bombers. The first stage saw
Brett
Cousins spending six months in Milwaukee helping the Bombers to their first
ever
Mid
American Australian Football League (MAAFL) title. This is the second
time in Australia for both boys. In 2005 Jared spent a few weeks with
Kevin Sheedy as part of the Essendon/USFooty exchange program and played
reserves for the Hampton Rovers in suburban Melbourne, while James played in Sydney's amateur
league. Both boys represented the USA at the 2005 International Cup with
James being named to the All-International team. |
Update: both the brothers played for West Perth reserves this weekend (Saturday 21st April) with Jared named best on ground in the Falcons' loss to East Fremantle.
 | On Easter Monday, participants in the Washington DC USFooty Kids /Auskick program and their families spent the morning on the South Lawn at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. The theme of this year's Easter Egg Roll was childhood obesity, physical activity and fitness (which my wife thought was very funny given the amount of chocolate on hand for the kids). |
(Alexandria, VA) In the shadow of the George Washington Masonic Temple here in Alexandria, Virginia, and with the snow melting on the George Washington Middle School Football field, 20 to 30 young men and women are out trying their hand at Ausball. It is a cold Easter Saturday morning but those brave souls willing to get out of bed are excited to put the footy boots on, kick some goals and have some fun. Ausball, is a version of "Rec Footy", developed for the US. It is a 9-a-side game played on a smaller oval (100 yards in length) with no tackling and various rules to encourage coed participation. According to the Eagles website, "No previous experience is necessary. Just some running clothes, maybe a pair of cleats or sneakers and plenty of enthusiasm."
 | US Footy’s Australian Advisory Board Executive Director, Tony Fairhead, recently managed to have students from Saint John’s University, Minnesota, who are studying at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle taught a little bit about Aussie Rules, including playing games. |
World Footy News proudly announces the inaugural USFooty Top 10 Poll. WFN
has recruited ten of the brightest minds in USFooty to vote on their Top 10
USFooty teams and then has aggregated the votes. We plan to have six more
polls during the season concluding after USFooty Nationals on October
13-14. WFN will announce the winner of the USFooty Poll Premiership on
October 1. The honor will go to the team voted Number 1 based on its 2007
regular season games.
 | USFooty has announced that Hawthorn Premiership player and former Head Coach, Peter Schwab, will join their Australian Advisory Board. Schwab is currently the Chief Executive of Football Victoria and the Chairman of the AFL Match Review Committee. Schwab brings USFooty a lot of football knowledge, as well as respect and clout within AFL circles. USFooty recently formed the Australian Advisory Board with the objective of eventually having seven members with high profiles in footy and business in Australia. |
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