Toast We made the NY Times.

[BotsMaster]

Geelong stamped itself as one of the great teams in the history of Australian rules football as it won its second championship in three years in an epic Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/sports/28iht-RULES.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

 

[zakster]

and pebbles rocca was spotted walking down 5th avenue the weekend b4 last
luke ball is also in the big apple

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Hey! Start spreadin' the news...

 

[catswhiskers]

Very well written article. The scribe knows his footy and how to describe it to non fans.

 

[noclashjumpers]

My initial reaction was 'ooh, big whoop, the Americans have noticed us - we must be important'.

...which still holds. I hate it when we get all excited because America has a slow news day and decides to run a story about a 'koala bear'.

BUT! Then I read the story, and blow me down if it isn't the best summation of the GF I've read.

Is it too much to ask the Herald Scum to sack their pathetic excuses for sport's Journalists (well, all their journalists in fact), and get this guy down here?

 

[BotsMaster]

My initial reaction was 'ooh, big whoop, the Americans have noticed us - we must be important'.

...which still holds. I hate it when we get all excited because America has a slow news day and decides to run a story about a 'koala bear'.

BUT! Then I read the story, and blow me down if it isn't the best summation of the GF I've read.

Is it too much to ask the Herald Scum to sack their pathetic excuses for sport's Journalists (well, all their journalists in fact), and get this guy down here?

Now this was the post i was hoping to get.

 

[ToroHombre]

"Its titles are outnumbered by the cricket legends — Keith Miller and Shane Warne — who have played for it."
Shane Warne never played a single AFL game for St Kilda. Where did he get that from?

 

[SJ]

"Its titles are outnumbered by the cricket legends — Keith Miller and Shane Warne — who have played for it."
Shane Warne never played a single AFL game for St Kilda. Where did he get that from?

He did play for the St Kilda Football Club however.

Just in the VFL under-19s and one match in the VFL Reserves.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

He did play for the St Kilda Football Club however.

Just in a VFL under-19s match.

Really?

Unfortunately for Warne he was before the era where clubs started taking guys from other sports and trying to convert them into footballers.

Then again, maybe he just wasn't very good at footy

 

[Motormouse]

Excellent article. It amazes me how Americanized his descriptions were. Almost as if it were another english dialect.

Our game can be as confusing as all get out to the un-initiated, but if I were watching the game for the first time, I'd love to have that guy sitting next to me.

Very well written piece.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

"Its titles are outnumbered by the cricket legends — Keith Miller and Shane Warne — who have played for it."
Shane Warne never played a single AFL game for St Kilda. Where did he get that from?

Think he got Warney and Simon O'Donnell confused. I think O'Donnell played twenty games or so with St Kilda in the early 80's.

 

[wolvesjr34]

I have to agree, definitely a well written article, although the American sporting terminologies just did not seem to feel right to me and I love American sports, but it's an Australian game - still it definitely would have made it make sense to the Yanks.

Oh and congrats once again on your win this year fellas.

 

[catswhiskers]

Think he got Warney and Simon O'Donnell confused. I think O'Donnell played twenty games or so with St Kilda in the early 80's.

Nup he got it right. Warne always wanted to be a footballer! He loved the Sainters (and still does). Played U19 for the saints for a while and may have cracked it for a game or two in the ressies. Too slow apparently. Must have been the penchant for baked beans.

After giving up his dream he went on to become the worlds best ever spin bowler (just for something to do after footy?)

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Nup he got it right. Warne always wanted to be a footballer! He loved the Sainters (and still does). Played U19 for the saints for a while and may have cracked it for a game or two in the ressies. Too slow apparently. Must have been the penchant for baked beans.

After giving up his dream he went on to become the worlds best ever spin bowler (just for something to do after footy?)

I thought O'Donnell was a pretty good cricketer who definitely played some V.F.L footy for the Saints. Our own Liam Pickering may have become a cricket star if he hadn't of chosen footy, and I hear the same thing is true of our Jimmeh too.

 

[SJ]

Really?

Unfortunately for Warne he was before the era where clubs started taking guys from other sports and trying to convert them into footballers.

Then again, maybe he just wasn't very good at footy

Sorry, I meant reserves (as catswhiskers pointed out).

Played Under-19s and one match in the VFL Reserves.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Sorry, I meant reserves (as catswhiskers pointed out).

Played Under-19s and one match in the VFL Reserves.

No probs...I thought as much.

Makes you think about what kind of footballer Warnie would have been if he'd stayed off the baked beans

 

[SJ]

No probs...I thought as much.

Makes you think about what kind of footballer Warnie would have been if he'd stayed off the baked beans

Put it this way, the bloke ahead of him at full-forward in the ones was pretty handy.

Ended up with 1360 VFL/AFL goals.

 

[jim boy]

I thought O'Donnell was a pretty good cricketer who definitely played some V.F.L footy for the Saints.

He was a pretty good cricketer but it would be stretching it somewhat to say he was a cricket legend.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

He was a pretty good cricketer but it would be stretching it somewhat to say he was a cricket legend.

Yeah fair enough!