US Football is Wussie Compared to Rugby and AFL

The past few weekends we have been getting into Australian sport, well at least trying to understand it. We attended a Rugby League game(The South Sydney Rabbitohs)with our friends Maria and Paul on a Sunday and the following Saturday we went to a an Australian Rules Football game (The Sydney Swans)with our friends Phil and Bron. Both games were so fast past, no commercial breaks, not line judges coming out with measuring rope, no huge linebackers having huffing and puffing back to the line of scrimmage but fast action and NO PADS! These guys hit each other so hard and there is not a bit of protection on them. I think Carl and I liked Australian Rules Football a little better than Rugby, it looks like organized chaos but at the end we figured out it was a like basketball but there are no offsides and they kick to score as they are running.

The Rabbithos Rugby game was out a ways in the Olympic stadium where they held the 2000 Olympic games. It was fun to see the stadium but rather large for the amount of fans that were there. We only have pictures of the Rugby game but we are planning on going to another Swans game so will bring our camera and hopefully get a few pictures next time.