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Dad Totally Drops Kid In Background Of Aussie Rules Football Interview
The video's a couple of years old, but it's new to us. (And still funny.)...
Halftime Interview With Just-Concussed Athlete Doesn't Go So Well
They call sideline reporters boundary riders in Australia. Boundary rider and former Australian rules footballer Cameron Ling thought it would be a good idea to do a halftime interview with St. Kilda's Dylan Roberton the other day. It wasn't....
Aussie Rules Football Player Scores Goal, Falls Down In Same Motion
Despite Australian Rules Football being one of our favorite sports here, we don't cover it often because pesky issues like time zones lead to matches being played while most of us are drunk or asleep. That's a shame, because at least two matches a week are aired here live, and they're almost always...
Australian Football Player Falls To His Death In Las Vegas
John McCarthy, a player for the Australian football club Port Adelaide, fell to his death early Sunday morning in Las Vegas. McCarthy was on an end-of-season trip with the rest of his team when he became separated from the group, according to club officials. Security camera footage shows McCarthy wa...
Aussie Footballer Robbie Gray Liquefied His Knee
Robbie Gray, the leading goal kicker for Port Adelaide Power last year, suffered this gruesome looking knee injury with less than a minute left to play in a game against Collingwood at Etihad Stadium....
Strippers Help Australian Youth Football Team Celebrate A Big Win
The East Brighton Vampires under-16 football team had a big win in the grand finals. Afterwards, the Aussie lads retired for a private party where "Vampires president Greg Wallace confirmed an adult entertainer had been present but was not sanctioned by the club. Alcohol was consumed ... and there ...
A Seemingly Naked Australian Rules Football Player Got Arrested For Roughing Up A Thai Cop
"Star Gold Coast Suns AFL player Campbell Brown and young teammate Maverick Weller were detained by police in Thailand yesterday. They had allegedly been involved in a fight with a local policeman. ... Pictures obtained from a witness show Brown and Weller handcuffed and seemingly in distress. The ...
The Best Argument For Eliminating Offensive Pass Interference
Different football (Australian), different rules (as far as we can tell from watching this televised Calvinball that airs on the wee hours on ESPN2, there are no rules). But we're still awestruck by this move that Carlton's Andrew Walker pulled on Saturday night....
Horny Aussie-Football Agent Revives The St Kilda Schoolgirl Scandal
The St. Kilda Schoolgirl Affair is back in the news! You catch up on the extensive back-story here....
The Aussie Football Players, The Pregnant Schoolgirl, And The Leaked Naked Photos
Australian football is in the middle of a sex scandal that blows away anything we've got. Months after a 17-year-old came forward claiming two footballers slept with her, she released nude photos of players and is threatening to leak tons more....
Australian Footballer Tells Gay Athletes To Stay In The Closet
An Australian Rules football star just penned a heartwarming op-ed telling his fellow players that it's really awesome if you're gay and everything—but it would be even more awesome if you kept that to yourself. Like, forever....
Victorino Beer Drencher Inspires Fans Around The World
An Australian Rules Footballer was the victim of a copycat beer thrower, no doubt inspired by the Wrigley Field hooligans who doused Phillie Shane Victorino. You mess with the bull, you get a cup of Foster's thrown in your face....
Australian Rules Football Finds Its Visanthe Shiancoe
How are Australian and American football different? Down Under, the ball is larger, the field is round, and the players don't wear helmets. Any similarities? Well, on both continents, footballers have no problem showing their wang on live TV....
Australian Rules Football Team Wants To Play By <i>Really</i> Different Rules
The Torquay Tigers football club of Australia raised a few eyebrows with this recent ad for the team's upcoming "All White Night"—a social evening of food, fun, and racial purity....
Humor Is Different In Australia, Apparently.
These two fellers are Central Coast Mariners, which is apparently an Australian Rules Football team. Shockingly, for Australians, they have somewhat, uh, a little trouble in the racial department. That guy on the right is in blackface. Really bad blackface, but blackface nevertheless. You think tha...
Time For Another Episode Of 'Not Safe For Work Theater'
She crawled to the finish, even though she could barely move! I have no idea what that means! YEAAAHHHHHH!...
Watch Out For That Post, Mate
There's a prevailing stereotype out there that athletes are dumb. Yesterday, Australian Rules Football player Matthew Westfield did his part to see that this stereotype was upheld globally. He ran full-speed into a goal-post, broke it out of the ground, and wasn't phased....