Aerial Ping Pong

Tonight we went to our first Aussie Rules games. I'm talking footy here. My friend Ian had two extra tickets, so Dana and I got to come along to the Olympic Stadium to watch the game. Australian National Football (as it's properly called) is a very exciting game. People taking the piss call it aerial ping pong and it's most often called simply Aussie Rules. It's very popular in Melbourne and it used to be called Victorian Rules. Well, no matter how many names it has, it's a good game. It's a lot like Gaelic Football but it's full contact... and it brings in a good crowd! There were over 60,000 people barracking* for the Swans or the Magpies. The Magpies proved to be the superior bird and football club tonight, beating Sydney 95-82. And the Olympic Stadium is a pretty cool building.


*You barrack for a team in Australia. You never root in public.