Rugby IS NOT Rugby League

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Tim_in_Philly

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Nov 2, 2000
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Just a note on naming conventions in NSW and Qld.
"Rugby" is Rugby Union NOT Rugby League.
Rugby League is only ever abbreviated to "League".
It is just as irritating to people in NSW and Qld to get that mixed up as it is to Vics and others to hear Aussie Rules called simply "AFL", a lesson I learnt very quickly when I moved to Sydney in 1989!
 
Just quickly on the topic of rugby league,
can you imagine the media bashing Australia will get if they lose to the world cup final to NZ? They better not too...

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mags... as if rugby does suck, it rocks, not as much as afl, but its still mad
lets go broncos, darren lockyer rocks!!
 
I call Aussie Rules 'AFL' all the time.

And it's a sad fact that many Melbournians still don't know the difference between union and league. I remember going fruit-picking with a couple of Kiwis who played union, and they got really pissed off when every time they mentioned rugby union, Victorians would say 'oh yeah, the Melbourne Storm'.
 
While we are being pedantic, Our game is AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL !!!!! I know Aussie Rules is widely used, as is "Rules" but I happen to like the term Australian Football rather than anythig else.
 
Peter I can understand your frustration on that fact. But trust me, you are more than likely gonna end up in a huge arguement with some ill-informed or arrogant Rugby league fan in Brisbane if you use that term. Opens you up to the 'Australian Football? what is Australian Football? The world knows Australian footballers, etc etc etc' always leading back to league players!

I tend to use the term AFL on purpose (at least at first and now it tends to stick) instead of saying Aussie Rules, up here.

Only becaue since the Bears made the finals for the first time in 95,then hosted finals in 96, and especially the success of the Lions in 99, the only thing the general non Aussie Rules following public up here understand is the term 'AFL'. And honestly - up here now, if you answer the question of what football team you follow, and you say "Lions", they all bloody say - "oh AFL!"!!! And more often than not, it is genuine, not with a sarcastic tone at all!

Hey it has been hard enough to educate those fans of the butt-sniffing game to the fact that there is another football code out there, let alone confuse the poor sods by calling it all different names!!!
 
It really pissed me off when an Aussie rules player from my local club named Mal Withers was on Fox Sports Big Time Boxing and they kept on referring to him as an AFL footballer.

Now Mal is a great bloke and was a reasonable footballer, but he played in the local comp which was probably four or five full levels below AFL. Very few from my club have ever made SANFL let alone AFL.

So Mal was in no way possible, ever able to be described as an AFL footballer. I got so pissed off that so called sports commentators on a national network seemed to have no idea that only the elite level of Aussie rules can be referred to as AFL.

It is a name of a competition, just as is SANFL, Weststar, VFL, etc.... Anyone who cannot grasp that fact is not a real fan of the sport.

I understand that ignorant non Aussie Rules fans can struggle with the concept, it is after all soooooooooooooooooo complex a concept, NOT.
 
What is this crap, it is not called Aussie Rules it is called Australian Football, bloody hell, aussie rules no matter which way you say it, it is still the best game in the world.
 
Beausgirl43, I grew up in Tassie and moved to Sydney in 1989 so the combination of TV coverage and being able to go to live games led me to be a Swans supporter and member.
The only game of football I've been to here was a college game as NFL games, at least in Philadelphia, are impossible to get tickets for. The game itself was pretty slow but the off-field "rituals" made it fun. The fans of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL have a pretty bad reputation, particularly for booing. One commentator here claimed that after the home games, the fans move on to the nearby airport to boo bad landings. I've watched a bit of NFL stuff on TV and my impression is it is like chess with live pieces. The players themselves seem to have zero discretion to do anything except what the coaches tell them, right down to how many steps they take before throwing/catching the ball. Give me a piece of Magic Michael "creativity" any day!
 

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