Why You Need to Watch Aussie Rules Football

the sport was actually invented for cricketers to stay healthy to stay healthy and fit over the off-season oh yep that was one of the reasons why the sport was invented in fact actually funny fact australian rules football is actually older than baseball is um i saw what and so i've seen that the afl the the league itself in australia was made in 1897 correct yep well it started off as what they called the vfl which is the victorian football league which is where melbourne is okay because basically the easiest way to equivalate it is is melbourne has 10 teams in victoria basically melbourne's got 10 teams in one little area okay there's eight other teams spread then out through the rest of the country there's two and there's two in south australia which is the adelaide teams adelaide and port adelaide you have your purse teams which are in western australia which is west coast and fremantle yep you have queensland which is brisbane and the gold coast and then new south wales which is sydney gws and sydney so but then the other 10 teams are all in victoria basically all within about an hour and a half of melbourne okay okay so so that's the reason why the sport at at the start was called the vfl the victorian football league and then eventually i think it was in the mid 80s they added west coast um sydney actually started off in south melbourne and then moved up to new south wales because they wanted to expand it because new south wales in queensland our primary rugby area of australia yep so they don't they're not big with afl they like it but it's it's kind of like lacrosse in the east coast compared to like the west coast okay there's a ton of there's a ton of lacrosse in the east coast yeah there's some lacrosse in the west coast but not not nearly as strong yeah but that's that's how kind of nutty victoria is victoria is football it is afl it is aussie rules there are teams everywhere there are local teams i mean basically like bear league teams everywhere in victoria south australia western australia are pretty big too but queensland and new south wales they're rugby they're rugby rugby union rugby league which are the two the two different codes that they have which don't get me started in trying to explain that if we can we can just stay away from that for a second but um with part of this so we're kind of covering some australian football with like uh kind of the basic rules of field size which is huge and a lot of things like so we're lucky with this kind of layout because you're the the expert in the room right now whereas i'm the newcomer i'm still trying to pick it up i've been following the sport for probably about a couple months now um what really got me hooked is so to get me into like kind of first was rugby i could start watching rugby in high school try to get a little bit more but then footy um caught my eye a couple months ago with shout out to uh pat mcafee because he had on the six foot ten american that's taking the afl by storm mason cox mason cox yeah mason cox and here's here's another funny fact um his two brothers are actually older than him they play in the usafl right now one plays in austin and the other plays in seattle wow well shoot okay so if you've been found mason cox uh afl and watch the usafl please yep yep yep if you if you get into mason cox his two bro his one brother plays for austin which literally they are the best team in the country austin has won five of the last six division one championships which is the best division in the country they are they are elite so now ryan let's explain a little bit so we have the league in australia is the australian football league the afl but over here in the united states now we or for a little bit now we have the usafl the united states australian football league and so it's it's kind of like um let's try and catch on a little bit so can we talk about like when did this league start starting the the 90s correct yep 19 1999 it was started by oh i can't remember his full name but his nickname's plugger and he's an australian who yeah he happened he he wanted to find a way to expand aussie rules into this country he he was kind of the founder of some of the first clubs which were in kind of the ohio valley area okay louisville indianapolis cincinnati those i mean some of the older teams are there i know san diego's team started in and around that time but there's literally there's teams across the country the last time i checked there's 46 clubs throughout the country and at least eight what we would call developmental clubs they're they're recognized by the usafl but they're not like full-fledged clubs okay they're kind of like we've got a name we're getting started but we haven't really had that official game yet so they're kind of what we would consider development clubs and they are scattered everywhere i mean literally the easiest way to say it is there's a team in maine there's a team in hawaii and everything in between well that was kind of crazy to me so we met we got in contact because pretty much i uh quoted a tweet on our twitter i'll shout out real quick at fourth long radio and of course we can follow the usafl at usafl 1999 1997. yep usafl1997 they're on twitter and instagram as well also website usafl.com um but i i kind of stumbled upon you guys because i got reached out first by the des moines team which is the team that you are the head coach of um we'll get into that in a sec but i just quoted a tweet about the afl like from afl tweeting that's definitely one of the most underrated sports in the world without a doubt um and then we kind of caught on with this you guys um do a good job with marketing we're talking how you try to find almost any tweet about the afl and just kind of try to reach out and plug yourself which is not bad cause you're still i mean you've been around for a little bit you have teams everywhere but you're still also kind of a uh a growing league which is crazy to me because i've never heard of you guys like i'll be honest never heard of you guys until you reach out to me but then i started to look into it and i swear i was blown away with how many teams you guys have in your in your or how many clubs you guys have excuse me in your league and how established you were yeah it's kind of crazy it's kind of crazy just i think we're kind of that that hidden secret we're kind of like the old like going off the movie where it kind of like fight club it's like if you don't know about fight club you don't know about fight club that's kind of the thing about the youtubers you guys are breaking the first rule on your twitter geez i guess i don't know it's just it's just kind of interesting because it's one of those where a lot of times a lot of these clubs are started by expats they're former australians that happen to be here in the states and they wanted to get a club going and they decided hey let's get a footy club started and it just kind of expanded from there that's kind of the nice thing about it now myself and the des moines roosters we're an oddball team we were started by two guys from sioux city iowa from the western part of iowa that got into the game in l.a and their father got sick decided to come back to des moines and conveniently they were like you know what let's get a footy team started here and we are one of the few clubs in the country that have no active australians playing the game we are primarily american team which is kind of odd because most of the teams in the league have at least 10 12 15 australians that are pretty regular or at least are around the club a lot more we don't have that luxury unfortunately i mean iowa doesn't have a lot of the things that draw australians to it but not my office you don't have those like planes i don't know if it's that it's just the fact that it's like australians love to ski australians love to surf yep we're in the middle of the country we don't have any oceans we don't have any mountains where i mean if you if you're a farmer and you're from australia you might find your way here but whether you're coming here for footy probably not so so we really are kind of this odd ball we're the smallest metropolitan area that has a team where they're smart we're like i said we're the only team in the country that is we're like 99.9 american we've had a couple of irish guys that joined us because they happened to be in town and caught on and like gaelic football um is a lot like australian football so they ended up joining us last year so it's kind of one of those we're the we're kind of the weird oddball cousin of the usafl because we don't have any australians so uh let's i'd like to kind of put into um i guess cat i'll call myself the casual with this one like me my um other guy on the show usually correspond to blake campbell um he's our little expert um a lot of terms you throw around is casuals you know the filthy casual so i'll put that in the quotes so i am more than welcome to take that name right now so i'd like to explain try to explain things from my perspective into like other casual perspectives you know so i would say if you've never seen australian football i tried to call the mix between like i guess american football rugby maybe a little bit soccer in there too it's really this hodgepodge of so many sports that you'd see around the world which is it's but so exciting though at the same time like i swear the first time you watch a game that the first game i sat down and watched was probably a month and a half ago and i was just staring at the screen for about 20 minutes i had no idea what was going on but i was loving every second of it you're not the only one uh for me most of the time is the first thing when you tell them it's like i play australian rules football right culture showing football almost the first quote from almost every person i've ever told it was is that rugby right i'm like that's what i thought it was um no it's not rugby yeah i didn't say rugby one number one number two aussie rules the easiest way i've felt to describe and it's kind of the best way i've ever heard it said fuzzy rules is soccer and rugby had a mutant child this is the easiest way to describe it because it's it's got the full contact of rugby it's got the big field and the open play of soccer there's constantly action yes you have you have the oddball things like some of the terms that you'll use and it is is when you listen to broadcast you'll hear them say shepherd all the time you are legally allowed to help your teammate down the field by basically what i would equivalent to is a basketball box out as long as you're within five meters of the ball you can legally find an opponent and box them out and keep them from tackling your teammate so that's called a shepherd okay completely legal then you have your volleyball parts where you have your handball which basically you cannot throw the ball you throw the ball to turn off you you like hold the ball and then you hit it right yep it's kind of like it's kind of like your whole kind of like you're holding the pizza like you're holding the pizza and then you punch it as hard as you can to your to your friend or teammate we've all done stuff like that like i guess you're holding volleyball you just punch it and then hit it towards someone you can't pass it but you can punch it forward you can punch it laterally you can punch it behind you but it has to be hit and then and it has to be with a closed fist it cannot be with an open hand yep gotcha and because if you do with an open hand they're going to most likely call it a throw and then that's a turnover as well okay yep so you have to punch it and you're wanting to punch it on the top part of the ball that gets it the correct spin because if you hit it at the bottom it goes down it's a lot harder to grab now a lot of people there sorry yeah you're fine with the ball is it similar to i know it's on rugby i know it's not rugby but is the ball similar to maybe the shape in in kind of size of a rugby ball yeah actually i have one here okay here we go it's a sharing okay now basically the easiest way i tell most people is if you look at it and look at the nose of the ball unlike the nfl and college football you have that angled point so it's easier to throw with this it's more rounded because it's more done for kicking yeah so and it's just it's a little bit bigger than american football now are there laces on it or is there no laces yep so it holds the bladder yep some laces at the top so it's it's like a big football that's not textured and a little more dull yeah it's more it's more of a it's very smooth um because like with all the with all the information that they have on it they lacquer on it and this is actually a special one that we got a few years ago it's is kind of commemorating our combination with australia for a hundred year what we call the mateship game nice and the team have the team happen to get it so i always kind of keep this one this is one of our better balls so i keep that one now another thing with the rules is one of the things that really catches you off guard when you first too into a game is most almost every single kind of field in this kind of sport it's a rectangle but not in aussie rules football it's a oval yep it is it is basically one giant circle with a couple of flattened ends for the goals but other than that i mean like i said it was invented by it was basically invented to keep cricketers healthy in the off-season which is basically our summer time their winter since cricket is played in their summer time okay and yeah so and basically the field is pretty simple it's one giant oval and on the ends of each field are four goal posts two tall in the center and too short on the outside and that's how you score is you maneuver the ball either kicking or hand balling it down and you have to kick the ball through the goal post to score points if you kick the ball without it being touched by anybody between the two tall posts it's six points and then the fun part most a lot of americans love is the gold is the gold judges whenever they score a goal yes yes finger guns those are that that's one i love it so much every time it's just boom and then and if it does it behind it's only one so but they still do it even in on behind it behind he does one but on a goal he does too and it's the joke amongst most of us in usafl is one of the things that gets a lot of fans is is the is the gold judges rooting tooting finger guns when he does that some of them really get into it now is that an official name is that what is officially called doing finger guns nah it's just kind of a fun little it's just kind of the fun little thing most of us throw into it i love it it's like it looks like a couple of guys drawing their car my favorite part is that they go like really into it but their face is super serious about it yep well another thing is if you ever go online and watch some of the older games from like the 80s they wore like the giant long built caps that go all the way around yeah french cups yeah they looked super like i don't know what better word to describe it besides dapper they looked very nice uh and they looked even better when throwing the finger guns with that one that's always good but you said the middle goal post untouched is six points the two outer smaller ones are one point each in between one tall one one and then there's a few little oddball twists to this like okay and most of in most of our games like like if you go in soccer and you shoot it on goal and it bounces off the goal post it's still in play as long as it stays in the field of play rozzy rules if that ball hits the goal post play stops and it if it hits the tall goal post it's one point and it hits the outside behind points here's where it gets a little odd it hits the outside behind post on the full or in the air it is actually called out on the full which is a turnover and the other team the team that didn't kick it now gets the ball now where do they get that ball at they would get that ball right next to that post just on the inside of the the goal post okay the outside of the goal poster would be like here's the goal post here's kind of the behind zone they would give the free kick on the outside of the goal post okay now free kits also happen when a ball is either kicked or passed or handballed 15 meters down the field only kicks only okay yep yep and that's called a mark that's called anything so with a mark one of my favorite terms is one that you like i knew what it was i knew what the action was but i didn't know the term but one of my favorite terms is speccy mark which is exactly uh with this it's pretty much shortened for spectacular mark and so can we explain what mark is can you break that down like i said the mark is basically if you kick pass to a teammate as long as it goes 15 meters or about 16 yards per se something a little bit more like any american football like you know 16 16 yards basically you kick pass to a teammate in the air and they catch it they then get a free kick there the opponent cannot tackle them the opponent has to stand where that ball was caught you can back up as far as you want but you've got 10 seconds to now get rid or pass the ball after 10 seconds if you haven't done anything and the referee says well i'm tired of this he yells play on as loud as he can and now the tackler can come tackle you you have to get rid of the ball so that's kind of that's kind of that specky mark prototypical australians they love to cut things in half and just throw an ie on it it's short for spectacular mark they also use words called a hanger or or i can't remember there's one of this one other one that they say is a screamer screamer are the three diff yep screamer are the three different terms that they use for that and basically what that is is you are perfectly legal as long as you are playing the football to jump on somebody's back to catch the ball and now that is perfectly legal that's one of the craziest plays i think that's probably one of the more um i guess shocking things to see as a new fan to it because you'll see guys fully grown like these are pretty big people their athletes are large but you'll see a guy jump on to another guy's shoulders and catch the ball over him and take these huge hits too especially like some of these guys really sacrifice themselves when going out for the ball yeah and that's it's kind of one of those it's it takes a lot of practice they actually have specifically made kind of like tackling dummies to let these guys practice but they are literally insane like i've actually i actually one time tried it and it is it's so hard to time because you have to jump at just the right time because if you jump and you run into somebody and you don't play the ball at all and you don't touch it you don't come close that's a turnover and the person who you just jumped on it's their free kick now they caught an unrealistic attempt okay you have to be able to play the ball so if you jump up and you you like go to grab it and it bounces off your hands bounces away it doesn't matter if you knock that guy out perfectly legal and and unfortunately i know it's the australians they do everything in it extreme awesome man but you you literally i've literally seen games where a guy will get a knee right in the back of the skull as the guy's taking it as a guy's taking a specky on top of him and that guy is out and they have to cart him off and another guy just comes right back in not a problem or i've even seen those guys they'll get up they're kind of wobbly they'll come off 15 minutes later they're back home i mean the aussies are kind of nuts well that part of the world if i want to just group in aussies and kiwis and with new zealanders too there are some crazy people like if i know it it's just it's rugby but their athletes are crazy like i saw the story of dude god that fat like giant cut on his quad he himself went to the sideline stitched it up and then went back in the same game so those aussies and kiwis too they are crazy and the crazy part about it is they don't like each other no well sporting rivalries easily one of the best boarding rivalries in the world is in rugby it's the australian rugby team in new zealand all blacks the wallabies and the all blacks yep that's a that's in rugby union is where they where they get usually play some of their best games yeah those are those are some of the good ones that and south africa and the in the um in the tri-nations when they play each other is always some fun rugby to watch now even there's there's a little bit of hatred between them do we see very many uh kiwis playing in the afl not many it's unfortunately with the australians sometimes that they're very much protective of their game um like mason cox when he went down there i mean literally it was just kind of a shot in the dark yeah and he did his first handball and there's actually a quote there's like a there's a documentary that's actually on youtube it's quite interesting you hear buckley their coach even say he said his first handball went three feet over his head and another five feet behind him and he's like if this is what we're starting off with i'm not sure this is gonna work and he continued to play in kind of the lower leagues and when he first started making up he could not he could not get his footing in the league and then 2017 happens and he goes absolutely bananas in a semi-final and he's taking hangers he's kicking goals to the point where collingwood fans are chanting usa in the stands it you can literally like if you ever get a chance to go and watch usafl watch that game because in that quarter literally the the announcer on the sidelines is literally saying they are chanting usa and there's a usa flag behind one of the goals being waived each and every time he scores yes that's yep that oh yeah i have to go watch as soon as we're done here i guess yeah i'll i think i could probably i could probably youtube you the link oh cool if you if you like that to me i'll link that in this stuff too so all of you guys listening can go check that out because man i get a little goosebumps just by hearing about that if you want to talk about the fans for a second australian fans are crazy and everything but they love their afl and right now their stamps are on like 25 capacity but they still get loud and then i've watched games with with full crowds and it's it's roaring it's it sounds like i guess for the american or for like my typical viewer watching a really good college game like the teams like um ohio state wisconsin um virginia tech those kind of fans but like another tier above that there is nothing yeah i'm sorry it's like between the the flag waving the chanting just the constant screaming it's it's awesome well the biggest difference i think between kind of the usa fan and the australian fan and it's kind of the same thing with europe a little bit too is is that with with usa we're used to an owner we're used to a billion dollar guy throwing down a ton of money to be able to do everything in australia it's a little bit different um they have what they call memberships so because you're a fan of a team you can literally and even even us in the international level if you go on their websites any of the teams like if you you decide to be like you said you you're really looking to kind of support gws oh yeah if you go to on gws's website you can actually find international memberships you pay a little bit of money but you get like a scarf and you get a membership tag you get all this cool stuff like i'm i'm i'm a member of the sydney swamp i have been a member since 2016 and have never regretted it i get a hat every year i get an interactive like a car different stuff like that there's a there's a um an app where i can actually watch the games live in case they're not on tv like there for a while before we had all this um it's called the watch afl app yep and connected to this international membership i then get a code and then i get that app and that's well oh yes yes so i can literally watch the games anytime i want he is on demand so like this morning my swans played at 2 30 but if i didn't decide to feel like waking up i could wait until this afternoon and watch the entire game in its entirety without commercials any time i want well now what's the entire season oh once that patriot hits tomorrow morning i might have a decision to make and each each team's different sometimes mine was the altogether because it paid for the watch afl app and the membership as well because i got a hat a scarf um one year i got a cooler like a little like a mini cooler yeah i was awesome it has membership um i get a hat that has a membership tag on the side which is awesome i got a keychain you get a keychain um you get like a special magazine you get a special marker that kind of says your name on it with your membership okay and some of them um after a certain amount of years you get like certificates and different stuff like that and then i know for at least with the swans there's what they call the swan shop and i get a free i get 10 off um merchandise as a member wow exactly now it costs a little bit to ship um i actually it's someone coming from australia right yeah let's just say to say i paid i paid 60 just to have it shipped here but i spent enough it was kind of worth it with the exchange rate yeah i got a lot of stuff yeah the us dollar is uh stronger than than the australian was it the australian dollar yep yep it's the australian dollar yeah it was the last time when i when i purchased like i said i kind of splurged on myself on my birthday um oh there's nothing wrong with that at all well especially when you when you pay 400 about an aussie dollars i paid 430 dollars in american dollars that paid just under 275 oh that's not bad yep and i got it shipped and i got it shipped right here and it came within about a week and a half so it was and it i have several t-shirts i got like a sweatshirt a beanie i got all sorts of like you're one hell of a ad campaign for the afl they need to hire you real quick for the marketing well and the funny thing is i've i've used the roost i've used actually used the rooster page uh to actually help another person get a membership there's a um one person that i ran into that was turned into a massive geelong casting and i and i had actually communicated with him with the twitter app and i'm like hey did you know that there's international memberships where you can get like stuff for free well not for free but yeah you pay your membership and you get it and all of a sudden i saw like the last couple weeks he got his membership packed in the mail he's got like a geelong scarf and everything and those scars are pretty nice too oh yeah and they're they're really cool uh just the cool little things that they do and i think the it's a little bit different like the membership's there they actually get like tickets to the game like you pay like a certain amount of money almost like it's almost like a season ticket holder but like for the nfl or for most season places you'll get like a couple things but it's really mostly just that ticket but they really take it a step up so hey nfl nba mlb nhl you know you guys might have to step it up a little bit right it's it's just it's absolutely awesome but it's awesome basically those memberships pay the clubs like they pay for the players they they pay for literally it is the the fans own the team kaido so it's almost like the green bay packers how they don't have an actual owner it's technically owned by the public but that's not every team yep and i mean they're still subsidized by the league i mean the league makes a ton of money i mean the one thing about the watch afl app and then they're they're run by free to air tv they're a couple of news stations that free to air their games and then there's fox footy which is basically their version of fox sports yeah here in the states and they play all the footy games so they they get some pretty good revenue out of that right now their stadiums must be huge so like i get how much do you think a full capacity crowd is like the the average stadium how many people it depends on the stadium the mcg can hold up to 100 000 people wow yeah who plays there that is where that is in victoria okay that's in melbourne and that's pretty much where richmond melbourne saint kilbut well saint kilbuck actually plays what they call marble stadium now yeah disney that's right yeah i've seen that called marvel marvel stadiums yeah i've seen that um for uh uh uh ufc event was hosting in in the marvel arena or stadium one of them too yeah it was it was eddie had and then kind of marvel bought it and now marvel so it's got like all sorts of superheroes everywhere but those are the those are the two main stadiums in in victoria so not every team has their own stadium like like a football member the state says okay yeah not the melbourne teams the outer the outer state teams um uh south australia which has both adelaide teams they both play in the same place it's kind of like new york giants new york jets they both play a giant stadium that's adelaide the adelaide oval holds 55 000. okay and that's for port and adelaide there's optus stadium which is really brand new it's like four years old it holds almost 70 000 and that's the western australian teams of west coast and the premier okay then you have gold coast which is like 35 000 and that they only have gold coast brisbane plays at what they call the gaba and that's i think another 50 and then you have metricon stadium which is where the gws your gws giants play and then the sydney cricket ground which the smg which is where sydney plays and that's about another 65 so most of them are at least 40 to 50 so you're talking a good college football size crowd the optus stadium and then mcg are the two biggest in the country with 65 and then a hundred thousand that's why every year normally when kovit isn't going absolutely bonkers normally the the grand final or basically what the easiest way to equivalent is the super bowl of australia is the afl grand final every year it is played at the mtg and it is sold out every year cannot find a ticket like the search wall you guys where it's like sold out pretty much for the next 50 years yep 100 basically almost 100 000 people almost every year at the grand final and like i said it's it's literally awesome like our super bowl but the only difference is unlike our super bowl that it moves around theirs is it's there now this year not so much victoria is literally ravaged right now with covet so right now the queensland government is keeping the league alive um unfortunately with victoria absolutely ravished all the teams have basically been shipped up to queensland or western australia and that's basically they're literally playing all the games in either the gaba in brisbane at metrocon stadium in the gold coast or or an optus stadium out in the west coast so we're crossing our fingers right now that none of those states get any issues or then the season's over yeah and that's kind of the scary part and it's also the reason why last thursday started 22 consecutive days where there will be at least one game yeah they've been promote the hell out of that over on them on their twitter and then part of that so they call um kind like rounds they have like rounds for for the games can we explain that a little bit because it throws some people off yeah it's just basically it's it's switch around with like nfl's weak that's basically all it is it's they just use a different word that's basically all this the round is who you play that particular weekend now normally in a normal circumstance they play thursday to sunday so that's when all the games are again with covet kind of ravaging and only having so many grounds and so many places they can play that's why they basically they're trying to compress everything in case there's any issues there is any kind of outbreak we've crossed our fingers there's only been one but we're really thinking it was a false positive with essendon yeah it was about three weeks ago conor mckenna who's actually irish his test came up positive so they were supposed to play melbourne that day or the day after so they cancelled the game and they were like trying to contact trace to do everything so basically they shut those two teams have actually played one last game because of that but then two days later they retested conor mckenna again and he was clean nothing so there's a lot of people there for a while to think they probably had a false positive which is great because then that means they still they have never they have not had a single positive test yet in the entire afl dang they're doing a really good job with that like yes knock on wood right now the nhl's doing a great job with that too the only problem with that though is that now they've they've moved everybody out of melbourne and a lot of the family members moved up and they're having a lot of problems with breaches they're having people like basically they kind of have them on lockdown they don't want them going out and risking it so they pretty much have a bubble there too they kind it's almost like they're almost in the in the nhl nba stuff where there's a legit bubble and then almost they're like in between that and the mlb how they're trying to get people to stay home but unless you're the saint louis cardinals mine and marlins you go to the casinos and strip clubs so well well the other the other thing too is as you kind of saw watching some of the games is is south australia western australia and the new in and and the northern territories which actually doesn't have a team they have not had any cases in over a month so they're clean the problem is is their governments are like yeah we're not taking any risk so they're like what they're basically doing is they're sending teams into western australia and they are quarantining for two weeks so they're basically playing one game with two teams that have quarantined where no fans can be in the stands the only people that can be in there are members of the staff and then once they've done the quarantine week then the next week then fans can come to the games and usually that's when they play the western australian teams okay like sydney and gw sydney and gws will actually play each other in western australia next i think it's next thursday and there will be no fans in the stands but then gws will play west coast and sydney will play fremantle and in both of those games fans will then be allowed into the stands so they are really really really stringent i mean they literally find at least four clubs in the last week up to 35 000 or more for breaches like one wife of one player went to a spa to get like her hair done she got literally the club got fined 35 000 because she did that and the only reason they found out is she put it on snapchat oh my god she put it on snapchat somebody found out about it a a journalist put it out there oh the asl was not happy they didn't find him then they fight then the crazy part is they fired that um they fired that journalist because he put the person's name the wife's name in the article but people got mad because she put it out herself and several other indications that were not connected to the afl had done it as well so there was a huge uproar and the guy got his job back but there was just there's there's a lot of drama about it there was one there's one how like like up to date and all this stuff that's happening on the other side of the world podcasts yeah you got some recommendations afl.com dot a u is is their website so that's the easiest way to keep track of that i listened to two podcasts that are actually out of melbourne one is their radio show like if you do radio shows in the morning it's talk radio it's a bunch of people talking it's called the hot breakfast it is done by eddie mcguire who's actually the president of collingwood a former western bulldogs player um oh my god i can only think of his nickname as darcy is dars but basically they do a morning show and they do kind of the morning show stuff they talk about the weather they talk about what's going on they'll have coveted updates but they almost always during footy season have updates so they're talking about what's going on okay and all that and then i listened to another one that's basically kind of your afternoon drive home it's called the rush hour and it's you're basically your afternoon and it's both shows very appropriately named yes and both shows are shall we say rather lenient on verbiage so there's the occasional four-letter word that drops out which are absolutely hilarious especially in an australian accent um aussie profanity is easily one of my favorite things to listen to there's nothing like it and i can and i can send you i can send you the links on i can put it up on twitter i can send that to you guys i'll retweet that so everyone can see that but but if you want to hear the australian accent you want to kind of hear what i mean and it's hilarious sometimes to hear them kind of laugh at us here in the states a little bit i mean they they take pot shots it's hilarious i love it um i got lucky and like one of the ways i kind of got into this sport even more is in my apartment building we it um so like i'm just at boise state university there is a student that that lives here did play baseball uh at boise state but he's from perth and so he was going to give me a little more to this and then just talking about like the i guess the insider aussie stuff and like their kind of jokes and aussies are funny as hell oh yeah and and they're they they they're not they don't hold back no but they but the best thing is is that they can give you a ton they can give you a ton of but they do it in a manner that is the least bit like aggressive it is purely joking i mean my my thing is that i listen to so many of them you start getting some of their slang and some of it is comical because i will start using it like i'll throw out one here is to whinge and that is to complain like you'll hear it sometimes they're like oh he's just whinging will you shut up and stop whinging that is to complain and no one knows where these words come from they're just they're just random ones like i mean they're like one of my favorites like going to footy like footy knowledge you'll hear this all the time you listen to it is is what we call a stiff arm they call it don't argue don't argue don't argue and if you ever watch richmond watch dusty martin he basically looks like he basically looks like if you took a hard rocker like a death metal heavy rocker yeah and made him an aussie rules football player he is tattooed everywhere and has a mohawk right down the center of his hell yes and and he is one of the best players in the league bar none absolutely insane and his favorite move is the don't argue don't argue i love you he loves it it feels like the names of some stuff is like stuff you'd say while doing it no yep we'll do another one a fresh airy fresh air any idea what that might be what is a fresh airy i think i might have an idea but it was a fresh area is basically uh you know when you play baseball and somebody throws a fastball and you don't even come near it yep swing right through it this is a fresh area is like if you did that trying to kick the footy hmm so you try to drop it you try to kick it yep a whisk whiff so while we're on these i actually have the um you brought your some um like we're talking about but i brought some of my um slang in some of these this verbiage um and so let's just get into some of this while we're on the topic so we went over speccy mark which is all these all these words are they're fun to say to be honest becky mark it's fun a footy is just a really easy way and kind of a fun way to refer to the sport um one of the ones i saw was ball burster so uh almost like a massive kick torpedo punt um travels typically around 70 meters but a ball burster so um i guess one of the ways um one of the things that i guess we call it we've heard you know throw it back to pat mcafee um in football if you hit a banger of a punt he called a a piss missile that's almost like a ball burster yep and then like some of the some of my favorite ones that i like is um a shaka shaka a shaka so so not not one of these not one of these you throw up no no it's a shocker you're having a shocker of a game it's a bad game like you're having a horrible performance like you have not played very well at all and then i kind of showed you that's called the footy um you call it the footy or the sharon yep that's the name of it uh see um a clanger klanger i had that one yeah um a flanker that's pretty good c-l-a-n-g-r now the clanger is a unforced air yeah i'm sorry like what happens with that it's a mess up or a cup as some would say depending on how you how you want it how you want to use it just a bad play just call it a cleaner yep and then um so like someone goes up for a specky mark and they miss would you call that a clanger it depends i mean if you make it look good you're probably not like basically the easiest way is like if you're standing in front of goal and there's no way you should miss and you kick it out on the full meaning you completely miss it and it's nowhere near that's a clanger i like it in fact you could probably if you go on youtube sometimes you can actually find top 10 planners of the year and some of them are hilarious another another good one kind of going off that is the falcon yeah i saw this is part of my list i love the falcon so a falcon is pretty much when you could um take a ball right to the noggin um and do do we know like why it's called a falcon do australians get attacked by falcons i don't think so i mean they're they're most common ones if you get attacked by a bird it's a magpie yeah which is the the nickname of collingwood is magpies are known to swoop because they defend their nests a lot so there's there's constantly videos of magpies like attacking people on bikes and different stuff like that i've seen magpies attach attack affiliate player on the pitch not really most of the times you're going to see birds you're going to see them in mc you're going to see the mcg and you'll get the seagulls or pigeons i actually in one video i saw collingwood was playing richmond and one of the player goes for the bounce because you have to bounce it after a certain distance but okay by the entertaining sometimes oh i see that where it's like um people like you're running it's like it looks like about five to ten meters and they like it's almost like a dribble they throw the ball down and bounce it back to themselves which probably looks like it takes a lot more skill they probably make it look really easy it takes a lot to master because unlike a basketball dribble you don't flex your wrist you kind of have to flat hand because you're shoving the farthest part of the ball away from you yep to the ground so it'll kick back up because of the odd shape of the ball i mean you can see it like watching the game that ball takes some weird balances yeah it does it could be running at it it's like a photo i got it i got it and it right turns on you big time see that lot of football i think like a lot of people like me that play football we've tried to bounce it to ourselves it might be a little harder with the football because it's a lot more sharp but it's not easy yeah no and then just some some of the ones that are a little they're they don't have any kind of funky one like um a spoil a spoil have you heard of a spoil i've not heard of a spoil is that like when someone kind of ruins a play for someone basically the easiest way to say that is is that when you like pass it to a team like like if i try to kick pass it to a teammate and his defender comes in and fists it away so you can't catch it mark it that's called a spoil that's spoiling the mark so so that you'll hear that all the time um kind of a cool one if you watch some of the highlight videos a czech side or a banana a banana is it it's a kick it's in the czech side or banana kick okay any guesses on what you think that might be is that i'm think i'm guessing that's like when they're kind of near the the boundary and they kind of curve a kick to make it through the goal post yep that's exactly right for me most most in victoria use the banana but south australia kind of there's enough announcers from south australia that call it the czech site i'm not exactly sure why it's called that but basically yeah it's it's where they're on an extreme angle and they use kind of centrifugal force kicking the ball and it curves and i've seen some that are extreme i mean i literally there's one comment one time i heard in a highlight it says that defies physics some of the i've seen i i've seen some of those kicks you're talking about they're wicked uh like um or like either they curve it or the ones that are like at this extreme angle like to have like this tiny tiny window that actually will make it in between the goal posts and they nail it some of those kicks are crazy because the only way to score in australia football is by kicking the ball there are no like rugby there's no touches there's um you can't run it through the goal post everything has to be kicked well you can run it through but that's normally what defenders do to call what they call rushed behind it's basically okay it's giving up a point to get the ball because if you give up a behind you get to kick the ball out from the little square that's in between the goalposts okay so it's almost like a safety basically it's kind of like it's you're giving up a point so then you can get the ball so and now it's difficult because you're now having to go the entire length of the field to score so it's not it's it's one of those i'm giving up a point so i can get the ball but i'm still taking a tiny bit of a risk because if my kicking guy messes up and the other team marks it now they get another shot of gold this could be a seven point situation where they get a point and now they get a goal because you make a mistake so it is one of those where it's like you give up the point just because you want to get the footy back but sometimes sometimes it kind of goes against and then another one one thing about the the afl and i think that probably we could talk a little bit more about the usa if i wanted to is one unique rule that i love it's called the father-son rule the other side rule yep players that have played 100 games for a club their son if he decides to play footy can nominate to play for that club basically the equivalency of is is that take one of your favorite players that's played in the nfl maybe they've played 50 nfl games if their son like say emmitt smith's son from the dallas cowboys yeah if his son got really really good and wanted to play professional football literally there is a rule that if he wanted to he could play for the dallas cowboys if he wants to that's his choice that's kind of cool so it's almost like ken griffin basically yeah and then their draft is really really funky because because of that you can actually bid for players and they also have um basically uh academies kind of like professional soccer in europe you have academies where you have kids that are 15 16 years old yeah they sign like a an academy contract and if they want they can play but what this is you have an academy and then if you want to play for your academy's pro team so say there's an academy kid who's for gws he can nominate gws as the team he wants to go to so then in the draft if another team wants to draft him they can trade draft picks to get that by a point system okay it it it is it is a might it literally it blows my mind i feel like we have to take an hour to fully break that whole process down oh yeah like the easiest way to say it would be is the first the first overall pick is 300 points each pick after that is a one point increment down so two is 299 so on so forth so then they could use a couple of picks later on if it equals up to 300 and that number one kid is their academy kid they can trade those picks now they don't get those picks but they get that kid so it's a little it's a little imbalanced at times because sometimes you can get one like gws really got a lot of really good players because they had their academy set up and then they got a lot of first-round draft picks so you kind of picked one of those teams that you would think should be a flag contender because they've got so many the problem is they can't keep them all because they have a salary cap too their pay scale is way different than ours okay the most expensive player in the entire afl makes about 1.2 million total yeah that is the most expensive player that's not very much well especially turns after you see patrick mahomes signing a 500 million dollar contract literally 500 times more than any contract that the afl has ever had this is true but you also got to look at it too is they've got about a third of the population yeah they don't have the pure finances that the us and with private owned with private ownership you've got a ton more money coming forward you're talking you're talking 10 15 20 billion where the afl the most max their profits out maybe a billion dollars and and then that's spread out amongst the teams and with no private owners you have the kind of the club members owning it with the afl kind of bank rolling it it's it's a completely different animal so so the athletes in the afl they're not they're not mega like rich players like the ones in america could be not not normally a lot of them i mean of course they're still probably living comfortably but they're not tens of millions of dollars they want to live too yeah depending on where they want to live to yeah i mean some melbourne sydney are a little bit more expensive than say perth or gold coast so for those a little bit plus you also got to look at it too is it's kind of like new york like the new york yankees in baseball i mean if you're a new york yankee and you're walking around you've got paparazzi everywhere yeah that's basically melbourne for all of the melbourne teams where you go up to sydney and queensland new south wales sydney and queensland they're rugby nations they don't give as much of a care to it it basically be the equivalency of tampa bay to the new york yankees there's a completely different fishbowl and that you're not as focused so there have been players that have left for sydney and gws and brisbane because they're tired of they walk out oh my gosh it's this person and then 10 million paparazzi from footy mad melbourne are all over them so so they may not have the same financial power but in terms of celebrity status they are almost unrivaled yeah that's just safe to say the melbourne papers about eight pages of the ten pages or about footy during the footy season now although i will say that i haven't actually read the newspaper for quite some time now but when i did because there was a point in time where i did um you see like a page per sport when i was trying to like when i was talking with um my australian buddy um i was trying to get like a uh almost like an idea in my mind of just how popular i guess um the afl really is in australia so i was like what's it like compared to rugby it was like it doesn't compare mate at least in most places like australians love their footy like i guess americans we can say we love football um the whole country almost shuts down on super bowl sunday but um it's it's our fan like we have hi really good fans for like sports here but as a one sport that one country gets behind there is almost nothing like footy unless you're talking soccer and some other um european nations or like brazil and stuff like that there's there's one thing that i love about australians is they find any way to take a national holiday the friday before the grand final no work nobody works not in not in victoria not in south australia not in western australia it is a national holiday now what day does friday does it take place on does it take place normally the grand final will be at least here it will be a friday night for them it's a saturday afternoon it's normally about a 1 p.m ish australian eastern standard time for here like you're in the mountain time zone set your game the game would probably start normally about 10 o'clock 10 35 your time about 11 35 with me here in iowa in the central time zone so like people on the east coast they're getting it at midnight the west coast get it at nine so the west coast and you guys are are kind of in prime it's not too late you can stay up all the way you don't have any problems normally most of the usa teams have what we call grand final parties and we try to get together for fundraising and kind of just so the east coast team some and and even us in the central have problems because if we want to do it at a bar the bars close at two o'clock and the game's not done yet so like half time half time it's like an hour and a half so the game ends at like 3 30 in the morning time of the year does this normally take place in the the regular season for the afl starts usually mid march 14th 21st in that area and it ends the last saturday in september or the first saturday in october depending on how kind of the week that we're kind of getting close we're kind games well the only problem is is that with kovid they shut down for six weeks so they're a little bit behind they did compress normally there's 22 game schedule this year it's only 17 because literally normally it's 22 where you play everybody once again are those weekly games like nfl just like nfl you play one game a week okay now like i said they compressed the schedule this year because of covid and all that stuff like this like baseball and stuff like that this year they chopped off all the second games with anybody so you literally will play everybody once you play everybody in the league once and then the top eight teams make the playoffs or the finals as they call them okay here's where things get interesting because their playoff format is kind of interesting the top four teams four plays one two place three the loser of that is still alive the winners go to the semi-finals or the preliminary finals as they call in australia okay the five eight six seven games is an elimination game you lose you're out wow the winners of those games then play the losers of a one four two three the winners of those games then flip sides of the bracket to the opposite side that way four and one don't play each other again so basically you actually could have the equivalent of if three beat two and then two beats the elimination game one and two could play in the semi-finals no i i kinda like that i i i really do like that format insane well it's because if you just make the top or so in the afl they're not broken into divisions or conferences are they nope they're just one league one big league so you take the top eight of those but it reward rewards you if you get top four you can lose a game lose a game and still win the whole thing yep i kind of like that and then um but but the other bad part is that you can also go out in two consecutive games because if you lose the first one and then you lose against the elimination team that's one you're out and that would be a little embarrassing too and it's happened i'm sure it has happened oh yeah in the last couple of years at least one team has been has what they call what is is the two and out yep or yeah they lost both games that has to hurt that's like getting swept in the first round i i guess see we can compare it to that and then so how does like standings work in in leagues like the mlb in nfl and nba it's all just based on win wins and losses or like in the nhl um you get two points for a win uh one point for overtime loss and it's whoever has the most points at the end of the season so how does the afl do their standings it's kind of it's kind of a combination of both there is a point system okay um a win is four points a draw which does not happen often but it does happen where you literally there is no overtime in afl if you get all four quarters both teams are on eight six four fifteen minute quarters yeah basically and the scoring is crazy because i just started to interrupt you real quick but the swearing is crazy because it's like a high scoring nfl game we'll see like in the 40s if each team's only scored 40 points in the afl that's a pretty bad game you could say for them it's a defensive game depending on how you see it and sometimes and sometimes i've seen games played in monsoons basically so it happens yeah and one time i watched a game between sydney and gold coast and it was literally monsoon season it never stopped crazy the entire game one person kicked the ball it went 10 meters hit a puddle and stopped so it happened but typically you'll probably see like in the 80s um for points sometimes break 100. i've seen i've seen games that were 110 to 95. it just depends on how good the defenses are and how good the goal kicking is so can we say the to to give it something to compare to maybe like an mba score right maybe around a little bit a little bit lower a little bit lower a little bit lower just because of the fact that the the ball does move pretty quickly i mean most of these guys i mean literally the equivalency i've heard in a video is these guys could kick balls as accurately as nfl quarterbacks can throw them that's how good somebody some of these guys can fit a tight window those guys are crazy and hit a guy right on the chest and why do you think uh nfl teams are recruiting australian football players to go punt for them now one it's because of the drop the drop punch is much more accurate when it comes to kicking the torpedo which is what most nfl punters do it's you're using the spiral effect yeah but the drop punt where you're dropping it vertically and you're kicking the thicker part of the ball um it's much easier to manipulate where you want it so that's why you're starting to see a lot of oz kick a lot of kickers coming from australia because they're afl is kind of the game everybody plays it i mean what we would consider baseball playing catch with your dad for them it's kicking it's kicking the footy and the crazy thing about kicking is that it's not like in the nfl where you have one or two guys are specialists and that that's all they do in the afl in footy everyone has to be good at kicking mm-hmm and that's what i like about the nfl doesn't have as much um but the college a lot of times they've been adopting the rollout kicks so they get more of a balance so that's what you see in foodie a lot and that's kind of that's kind of it too and it's so much easier to direct because you're like i said you're kicking the bigger part of the ball the biggest thing with them is is that and the other kind of the other nice thing about sport is you don't have to be like in the nba you kind of got to be tall to play yeah if you're shorter it's a lot harder to play in the afl if you're shorter it sometimes is a good thing because what you can do is instead of jumping up for a speccy mark you can stay down and get what calls the crumb like if nobody can catch it and the ball drops down hey you can run grab it you can use your little legs to run real fast you can kick goals yeah i mean so it's a the kind of the nice thing about the game is that there is no set standard of what's like a typical i mean there are there are guys running around now in the league that are five foot five and then you've got guys that are six six six seven playing and it's everything in between you've got guys like matt jack dawg who's there's a sudanese thing he literally looks like he's chip he's taken out of granite i mean he is like i mean he looks like an nfl player as an austin backer oh yeah he looks like he looks like an nfl player that has nazi rules i mean he has big arms strong chest and big guy and he he's just as fast as some of them and then you've got guys like tommy pappley who plays for sydney who's like five seven 145 pounds soaking wet but he's quick as a hiccup and can kick any and that's kind of the good thing about the game is that there is no set standard of of player yeah uh when it comes to size and weight and everything like that so it really is kind of this amalgamation of like i'm not a small guy i'm a rather big guy but when i played i mean i could go and play full forward where i'm kicking the goals because i took a lot of time to learn how to kick so it's kind of one of those where it's like even with the usa clubs it's like we're not at the elite level of physicality or conditioning yeah there are a lot of guys that are really good athletes that play this game but there's guys like me their average joe that got a few extra pounds on them i'm not gonna lie i do that go out there and they have a kick because it's a fun game to play and the best part is is that you get a lot of friends like especially from my club is we started in 2009 there are still guys on the team now that are playing that were there when i started wow that i'm coaching now that i know and we've got guys that are 40 years old we've got guys that are 25 and it's a little bit of everything i mean that's kind of the best thing about the usafl is there is no standard for age group there isn't well one 18 year there's 18 year olds there's 50 year olds there's older guys there's guys that have been playing there's the last 22 years ever since it started we've got women that play yeah you guys have women's leagues yep yep we've got women's teams throughout the country in fact we have four or five girls we're kind of starting this slowly a women's program here in des moines okay um that was really kick started by emily who was kind of our first our first one this last year a couple of girlfriends and wives you'll get girls friends wives significant others that they'll come and join and the best part is is that there's no issues i mean our girls train with our guys and our guys are doing everything they can to help the girls get better like i think our girls played better this year because our guys were so willing to help train them that's phenomenal yeah and that's kind of the best thing about it is we all we're all what we call using the aussie term mates we're all mates we've become lifelong friends we've got people that have been in their weddings i had a wedding reception and half the roosters showed up to my wedding reception because that's just the way we were that's the best part in these sports is crazy but like um especially just the australian football or the footy fans they're you like they're their special group like um like i just tweeted something small i mean you guys interacted with it but people really kind of retweeted that interactive with that and stuff like that so that's why partly why i'm so happy to have this conversation because i would love to get into the the i guess the fan base of foodie because it's arguably one of the best ones in the world without the dedication of the fans and and stuff like that and so can we let's just talk focus on the usafo real quick um so it's you as we mentioned earlier located everywhere um so what are the best places to find this or how to get involved with the usafl well well one of the best places to go is usafl.com that has pretty much everything if you want to find and see if you have a team close to you they've got a club list and that's got every single team in the entire country including the developmental clubs and where they are and contacts that almost all the teams are on social media facebook twitter instagram many of them have um websites so and we are always always looking out for new people because with this sport being sometimes as physical as it is it's not easy to play this sport for a long period of time so we are constantly looking for new people we are trying to spread the sport just as much as the guys in australia are and and the one thing that i love about it is the fact is there is a mateship amongst all of us like i i live in des moines but i can't tell you how many guys i have helped through the twitter find teams in their area like i the one one kid i found in texas is now going to join the dallas dingoes when we get back up and running yes yep the dallas dingo is one of my favorite ones fort lauderdale florida the fort lauderdale fighting squids the filing squids yes you know ciel just got their hockey team they got the kraken but they have nothing on the fighting squids i love it i love it in fact in fact you you said you're in boise you showed me it was at the the boise startup league right there's one that that's i think boise is trying to get a club going i know there's one in utah the warsaw war hawks there is there's the same i've the warsaw war hawks that's there's some i think they're in salt lake city i think they're kind of one of the development clubs the seattle grizzlies in seattle um and the portland steelheads are close to you so they're they're clubs to reach out to the griz are a good bunch um i i got to know many of them this last nationals um there for a while we were going to play with him in our div 4 kind of nuttiness but i mean you've got teams in sacramento l.a i've uh pretty good if you're based in the sacramento back where i originally was from can we shout the sacramento team sacramento sons they are a good bunch of guys back they helped us this last year national tournament finished second in division four we we combined with them okay des moines roosters and sacramento sons combined and we finished second in our division in division four at this last year's national tournament which was located in florida in sarasota and then every and then normally over notwithstanding everything with asterisks like we say yeah i know every year normally around the first or second weekend in october we have the national tournament and it's hosted kind of everywhere kind of depends on it this year we're supposed to be in california um unfortunately that has been cancelled due to covid which kind of this season has right i mean well the season not completely there's still some clubs that are trying to train and there may be a scratch match here but officially yeah pretty much unfortunately the season is lost but hopefully crossing our fingers that next year all of this has been taken care of um the national tournament will be usually that second week in october um the usafl will put out where it's at they try to put it out at least six months in advance just so everybody because the biggest thing is for a lot of us it's travel and everything is on our time yeah this is this is a glorified reckle yeah i don't want to see i don't want to say barely that's that kind of gives a bad connotation yeah it's directly australia you guys are here you guys have been around um but like i i was so thankful to have this conversation because i want to get into afl for a while on my show now which and thank you very much go se coaches for uh you know listen in and give me a lot of good stuff about that of course you know you watch the podcast anywhere spotify itunes um and youtube anywhere else you get your podcast let me get my plug in real quick did we do we.the fourth along.com um i gotta check out that website you guys said you had some merch i may have to check that out and it sounded pretty cool i i i heard she had face masks i was like we do have facebook podcasts we do have face masks definitely have to check that out but you're the man i i i work um kind of data injury so for me i'm listening to podcasts all the time that's kind of like if um do you need any kind of podcast um both american based and you usa you're the man um reach out reach out to me um i know there's several there there's several really good ones um another person if you wanted to talk a little bit more in depth about the usafl reach out to um the usafl 1997 that's run by brian barish he is the media director for the league yeah and he is a very very good interview great guy out of philadelphia awesome well we're supposed to get something done soon so that that's good he is worth it he is so worth it and he has his own podcast that's that's kind of set up by the usafl called the marks and stripes podcast marks and strife and that and that he interviews different people from around the country and he'll get some australia and some usa is like um kind of going off the the women is we actually had the first ever usafl based player play in the aflw this year in danny marshall who plays for the western bulldogs women's team okay wow so you guys are starting to get into it that's exactly what i would love to see i'm so happy to have you on um because we can get this going you know kind of help promote me a little bit but it's like a helpless you know you scratch my back guys scratch yours a lovely partnership is uh in the making between fourth and long and the usafl and honestly i'm super excited about this because um you guys look i'm so thankful that you guys reached out to me you know the beautiful des moines rooster um you know twitter account ran by yours truly also has his own personal but we have the usafl 1997 plenty of places to reach i also just followed the normal afl twitter account as well they're putting out like a lot of fans we can't watch it not everyone wants is ezekiel gets up at 2 30 in the morning to watch some footy um i do my best to stay up till about 12 o'clock one o'clock and watch what i can when it's on fox but at the very least i watch all the highlights that the afl posts which is also a lot of fun and that's that's really good too because you kind of see some of the really good puns but if you do go on usafl.com they have the connection to just the watch afl app which is the app i told you kind of with the membership yeah you can just buy that if you're not interested in supporting a team like if you just want to watch footy you can actually get just the package that's that and like i said every game isn't on demand so you can watch it anytime you don't have to worry about some muscles but the good thing is when you watch it live you get australian commercials which are awesome two of my favorite commercials in the world to my favorite i love the japanese commercials because i honestly almost never know what product they're advertising for but unmaintained in australian commercials two of the best ones they blow american commercials out of the water bar none i love it and one tip if you're ever if you're ever in australia and you hear somebody talking about macca's that's mcdonald's yes i've learned some of that because i like i follow some australian and kiwi people i've i've started to pick it up a little bit backers yeah maccas there's no r no r macca's maccas yep it's mac i love and the other thing too if you do decide to go down the wormhole of twitter okay and you make and i try to warn people about this if you go afl fans who should i support i'm gonna warn you right now half of australia will contact you every single one of them have a specific reason why they're gonna tell you to support their club i know exactly what i'm doing i know exactly what i'm doing on my house i'm have australia finally over each other in the twitter replies huh and they're they're quite interesting i actually one time had had like 15 retweets because of that because somebody put out somebody put out asl who should i who should i support yep and i literally i think it was might have even been the rooster's page i went just gonna tell you half of australia is going to try to contact you to get you to support their club just warning you that's awesome it is gold because i mean some of them will use gifts some of them will yes say just they'll use like the team club songs and that's that's another thing real quick if you listen to the club songs you'd be surprised how many of them are old school songs we've heard all the time saint kilda the saints go marching on oh open the same how much you yeah that's their club song okay listen if you listen to sydney the sydney swans it's the notre dame fight song really okay hawthorne hawks yankee doodle dandy okay yep yankee old andy north melbourne if you end no any choral music it is the battle hymn of the republic wow many of them are just they're old school songs that have just been adapted with words and the best part about it is that after every game when they win they sing the song dude that's that's i love a good fight song love in college high school it's it's so good but um yeah once again let's just plug you usafl.com um there's afl.a you the usafl1997 twitter instagram the des moines iowa team specifically is the des moines rooster is uh des moines roosters on facebook it's ddm roosters floydy on twitter we also have an instagram two million roosters on instagram and if you are ever in des moines and want to learn footy please reach out we have an open door policy if you were ever in town and want to learn the game of footy reach out we'll let you know when trainings are the boys and the girls are always interested in helping anybody out and i've said this to any usafl player and any american if you're in des moines and want to learn footy come out and see us we are more than willing to help um i'm just we're all crossing our fingers at this coveted thing gets taken care of as soon as possible and if you ever find yourself in des moines sir you're more than welcome to join us very appreciate that and then can we say that kind of share the same sentiment to almost any other club around the country oh yeah almost all the clubs all the clubs are on twitter facebook instagram all of them they're super nice all the people i mean we really are a community we kind of work look out for each other like i said i i'm i send people to teams anytime i can so most of the almost all the teams that i have ever talked to they all have an open door policy i've said that all the coaches that i've talked to have said that if you're in town even if like if a dallas dingos player is somehow in chicago and chicago's training well they'll let them train with them yeah it's it's kind of a mate ship because we all love the sport so much it's all about growth full sport man right oh yeah especially with a smaller team like no offense to the league the usfl is not huge you know per se but it's all about growing the league growing the love for the sport and growing almost the the visibility of it is not a lot of people just don't even know it's there but as soon as i find it's there i am sucked in so it if i can just get the name out and then have one to two people talk about it they talk to their friends about it it's just a good chain reaction and it's all for the love of the game of footy yep and who know and who knows maybe maybe next year at nationals you could do a podcast and meet some of the other teams at usafn nationals and who chose an idea you might not even have to do a podcast i might be there in person who knows who knows maybe you can even strap on the boots and play a game yourself you know after a couple surgeries my mom wouldn't be too happy but at the same time uh might be worth it we can always have a little fun we'll stick you out we can stick you up and full forward to be a little less contact oh okay let's do that let's cater to the i'm okay with that yeah yeah it happens trust me i've got we've got 40 and 50 year old guys to play and they're just kind of they're out there they're just having fun playing the game i love it well coaches thank you so much for your time today i really appreciate it we got a lot of good education on the on the australian footy the afl and the usfl we all know where to find it now and for sure this is not the last time we are going to talk with that open door if you guys you guys ever want to talk about the afl finals uh give me a ring let me know i'd be more than willing to break down kind of what teams are hot what teams you're not what teams look good and all that so you guys are right here in the afl corner with coach hess i i've been told by my wife i should actually start a podcast so well as long as you're not competing with me it will be all good yeah maybe i don't know it'll be a lot of fun but this is hey this has been a pleasure um i'm glad you reached out it's been awesome thank you for reaching man thank you a lot of problems so happy so happy but if you want to if you want on fourth and long you want an australian rules court uh correspondent i'm your guy if you want it i think we got our guy i think we got our guy mutual love

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Published: Mon Aug 10 2020