AFANA Footy BBS

Gee Wee weel I am really impressed with the interest that my anti AFL stance has created amongst you supporters of what you call football and the rest of the world doesnt call anything at all.American football players have basicly no value beyond their respected borders,so if a NFL player is lets say worth 100 million at home he is not worth a cent overseas,same goes for aussie rules,while lets say Michael Jordan or Ronaldo are worth their worth anywhere because thier sport is global and they compete against the worlds best.
Some of you claim that the australian game,lets not call it football is on the way up I guess that claim is judged by the number of kids around the world who have thrown away the round ball and their Manchester united tops and opted instead for the funny shapped ball and the Collingwood stripes tops,this is a phenomenom of a global scale people playing aussie rules on the beaches of brasil,the townships of Soweto and on the steps of Mongolia they know all the Carlton players by name and so on.Sorry but keep on dreaming you know to well that aint true and that will never happen,because the world has its football and its round just like god wanted it to be.Its big and its just getting bigger
and your silly game will just get swallowed by the world game and their is nothing you can do about it.
Another one of you claims that Gridiron will swallow football no way do you just know Manchester United anual turnover,do you know the anual number of spectators watching football worldwidenevery country every club .
Join or perish

> Gee Wee weel I am really impressed with the interest that my anti AFL
> stance has created amongst you supporters of what you call football and
> the rest of the world doesnt call anything at all.American football
> players have basicly no value beyond their respected borders,so if a NFL
> player is lets say worth 100 million at home he is not worth a cent
> overseas,same goes for aussie rules,while lets say Michael Jordan or
> Ronaldo are worth their worth anywhere because thier sport is global and

Let's see, Ronaldo's worth in OZ - about nill because most Australian soccer clubs are near bankrupt or have been bought by European clubs so that they get
cheap Aussie players so that they can pay those obsene transfer fees of which the player gets only a tiny fraction. Don't think for a moment that becuse Ronaldo might have a $30 million transfer fee that he gets $30 mill it's more like $3 mill and even including his match payments (which are peanuts compared to a gridiron player's.) he's still on poor street compared to the average gridiron player. Oh and Ronaldo's worth would be peanuts in the US too, I mean a league whose average attendances are only 15-16,000 can't pay million either.

> they compete against the worlds best.
> Some of you claim that the australian game,lets not call it football is
> on the way up I guess that claim is judged by the number of kids around

But it is on the way up, just look at the growth figures for the USA, and given your spelling of international in an other thread I'd guess you to be Spanish speacking so would it surprise you that Aussie Rules is played in Argentina, Chile and El Salvador.

> the world who have thrown away the round ball and their Manchester united
> tops and opted instead for the funny shapped ball and the Collingwood

No, but a Canadian children's show had one of the main characters wearing a Footscray jumper most every episode.

> stripes tops,this is a phenomenom of a global scale people playing aussie
> rules on the beaches of brasil,the townships of Soweto and on the steps of

Strange you should mention Soweto, as the South African government is activly promoting Aussie Rules as the new 'national sport' as it doesn't cary any of the 'apathiet'(sp?) bagage.

> Mongolia they know all the Carlton players by name and so on.Sorry but
> keep on dreaming you know to well that aint true and that will never
> happen,because the world has its football and its round just like god

Just tell us where did any of us ever suggest that it would be the world game (any time soon)

> wanted it to be.Its big and its just getting bigger
> and your silly game will just get swallowed by the world game and their

And soccer could go the way of Rugby Union which at one time was the world's most popular 'football' game.

> is nothing you can do about it.
> Another one of you claims that Gridiron will swallow football no way do
> you just know Manchester United anual turnover,do you know the anual

About equall to any NFL's clubs petty cash bill for the year.

> number of spectators watching football worldwidenevery country every club

Not as many as you'd like.

> Join or perish

Is that you Nick?

I must admit, soccer is great if you want to get together with your friends for an afternoon without being distracted by the game. Where else can you find 5 minutes of action packed into 1 1/2 hours of 'playing' time?

I feel sorry for the poor unwashed masses who have not been introduced to footy and therefore have to settle for soccer. For people like Deni who have seen footy, and still prefer soccer, I can only feel pity.

> I must admit, soccer is great if you want to get together with your
> friends for an afternoon without being distracted by the game. Where else
> can you find 5 minutes of action packed into 1 1/2 hours of 'playing'
> time?

Great call - I wish I'd thought of this description.

> I feel sorry for the poor unwashed masses who have not been introduced to
> footy and therefore have to settle for soccer. For people like Deni who
> have seen footy, and still prefer soccer, I can only feel pity.

I doubt that s/he's seen a game of footy or even soccer for that matter, because as you say if either case was true there would be no choice to make ;-)

> Great call - I wish I'd thought of this description.

Thanks, but I may have been a little too generous. I'm not sure a typical soccer game has 5 minutes action.