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OT--Australian Football League To Play in Communist China

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http://www.afl.com.au/I know there are a few other AFL fans on the site--Port Adelaide will play Gold Coast in Communist China in 2017. Wish we could get some games here,but I am not sure what stadiums have fields big enough. Probably Oakland is one. Go Fremantle Dockers !!!---
 
http://www.afl.com.au/I know there are a few other AFL fans on the site--Port Adelaide will play Gold Coast in Communist China in 2017. Wish we could get some games here,but I am not sure what stadiums have fields big enough. Probably Oakland is one. Go Fremantle Dockers !!!---
Would love to see my family's Collingwood Magpies in the USA. And, I think Americans would go nuts for Aussie rules football. Really fun to watch! But, I don't know of a stadium in the US with a field large-enough to accommodate such an oval. I've only seen the Pies at MCG in Melbourne. Just checked, the field dimensions are 171m x 146m (roughly 187y x 160y). The G is huge, seating 100K+, and the field is larger than most, if not all, in Australia. Still, I can't really think of a comparable American stadium with a field so large that its width well exceeds the length of an American football field and a length that is one and one-half to nearly twice the length. Only the infields of some of the larger NASCAR venues would seem workable. And, much as I think it's an amazing sport, there's no way the AFL attracts 100K+ to Texas Motor Speedway.
 
Got to watch a lot of it when I first got here. Went to a party for the AFL Grand Finale. It's the Australian Super Bowl. 99,000+ people at the Melbourne cricket grounds saw the Sydney Swans and the Western Bulldogs. Bulldogs hadn't won a championship in over 60 years but came out on top.
It's a great game and a lot of action. Some tough,tough guys out there.
My favorite rule is that if you say one word to a ref there's a penalty.
 
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