I love American Football but what the heck is Austarian Football?

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Please fill me in

Answer 1

to the person above, it really annoys me when people just copy and paste out of wikipedia...

anyways im an australian who loves football but also enjoys the nfl and fo rthe record the ravens should have gone all the way.. Australian football could refer to 3 things, AFL (as described by the person above), rugby league and rugby union. AFL is an exclusively australian sport played on an oval field continuously for approx 100 minutes broken in to quaters. players mainly kick a ball similar to that in gridiron (but much softer and rounder) to one another, or they can handball to each other... ultimateltry trying to kick the ball through 3 scoring zones, one being worth 6 points and the other two only 1 point. also when a player kicks the ball to another player, thats called a mark and he is free from being tackled until he moves off the spot or kicks it again. This is one of the most physically demanding sports in the word where only a player of the highest fitness can compete in. Rugby league and union are very similar. Union was the original sport played all over the world and involves 15 (13 in league) players passing a ball backwards to each other doing a series of plays in a bid to break the oppositions straight defensive lines to score a try (done by placing the ball on the ground in the in-goal area). a player then attempts to convert a try, similar to that of an extra point in nfl, but the positioning of the kick is relative to where the try was scored. Now the big difference between league and union is that union is a much slower, gradual chipping away at the opposition containing very little excitement where a game also containg very little tries (just mainly penalty points). Rugby league is much more free flowing where attacking is  mainly improvisation of a very general bunch of set plays. it has bigger and more exciting plays, bigger hits (can u believe union actually has rules preventing you from smashing the opposition) and generally kmore exciting gameplay and is a sport prodominately played in austrlia. Union was originally a high society tutti fruity sport that is boringly slow, and league is the faster modern day appropriation (bet u can guess which one i support). However if i was to draw a main differnce between the nfl and all of the australian footballs, its that in the nfl u have players who specifically prepare to do a specific job (eg teaching your QB to thow and not your linemen) and in australian footballs, while u do train players for specific jobs, they need to be more of a jack of all trades that can fit into a number of position

Answer 2

australian footy rox my jocks.....lol

nah thats hoTT, carlton rules...and brendan fevola is dropdead gorgeous..................u shud watch it , u'd get addicted!!!

anywaiz i'm outz so ............rock ON dudettes..!!!!

Answer 3

Australian (learn to spell) Football is a sport that is much better than that American Football c**p.  Do a google search and you will find everything you need to know about it.

Answer 4

look around on youtube, if you love nfl you should like rugby league and or union, maybe afl as well.

go to wikipedia for more details.

Answer 5

i love Gridon too but it is nothing like AFL we kick the ball to each other and put the ball though some goals at each end of the ground to get points we can pass it to each other by hand balling it too. we can tackle the oppents but not as rough as gridon we get 6 points for a goal and one if we kick it either side of the gaols.