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For anyone north of the Murray River who is a bit confused about Aussie Rules, the game is quite aerobic. The field is a cricket oval at ~200 yards by ~150 yar

For anyone north of the Murray River who is a bit confused about Aussie Rules, the game is quite aerobic. The field is a cricket oval at ~200 yards by ~150 yards (~15x the area of a US Football field). There are 18 players on the field per team, for a total of 36. The game is broken up into 20 minute quarters with ~7 min of stoppage time per quarter. With all the breaks, it's about 2.5 hours long. Though it varies by match, you basically are doing windsprints the entire time while the other team is trying to climb on you and knee you in the head. Those guys are in very good shape even for professional athletes. Here's a good video on some Aussie Rules highlights from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUoDPEyohE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUoDPEyohE

grogenaut 6y ago
Thanks, I forget people wouldn't know. I enjoyed aussie rules as rugby seems almost as brutal as american football without the protection. Also at the time there was way more neck down contact. I saw multiple neck breaks that way 10 years of football. Aussie had more glancing contact and seemed weirdly safer. for values of safe. I would not play it at the level the pros do. They're brutal. Watched 2 games from the G and one from the gabba while I was in oz summer Aug 2019.