Aussie Rules!

For those of you unfamiliar, Footy is basically like every sport put together! Has tennis “runners”.  Has basketball toss up.  Has volleyball passing.  Has soccer kicking.  Rugby tackling with a hint of wrestling thrown in. Football goal posts.  Hockey oval shaped field.  Quiddich multiple goals (haha).  

I’ve been tto two games at the MCG stadium which holds 100,000 people! Essentially Melbourne is the most sports mad city in quite a sports mad country.  Our first game, we happened to accidentally attend what we were told would be the best atmosphere game of the entire season! It was the first match up between the first and second ranked team (Collingwood and Carlton)! I live in Carlton so I figured I’d go for them, but then they started getting crushed and we were surrounded by Collingwood fans that were quite a lot of fun and just wanted so badly to convert us to Collingwood fans that I couldn’t crush their spirit.  The sweet Collingwood beany my friend Matt gave me didn’t hurt the cause.  SO yes then I found myself rooting for “that team”.  You know the team everyone loves to hate because they are the best.  It only makes sense since I do root for the best team in the NFL as well… Anyway, the second game we got tickets to totally outdid the first.  This was the number one team versus the number two team (being Geelong this time around). Both teams were iundefeated fort the season, and Geelong took down the mighty magpies! It was heartbreaking… I’m invested now, I’ve taken a lot of slack so Collingwood is my team, Im just loyal like that! ; )

So although I’ve pretty much figured out how the game works, what I don’t think I’ll ever grasp is how they don’t end up maimed, crippled, or permanently injured in some way every game. I’m certainly glad they don’t though, I don’t think I could bear anything happening to those precious faces.  So many gorgeous men so little time!! I may have found my one true love, he actually plays Rugby though, which is also really popular here. May I introduce you to William Zillman:

Excuse me Will, can I have my breath back please?

"Despite all my pride and foolish ways 

Caught in Your infinite embrace 

And I find myself here on my knees again 

Caught up in grace like an avalanche 

Nothing compares to this love love love 

Burning in my heart "

-Hillsong