I’m American as well and started following AFL when it would pop up on cable sports here from the late 80’s on. I’m a huge Collingwood supporter. They’re the most popular and hated club in Australia lol. What I can tell you is the game is fast, furious and exciting. If it ran same time as NFL for a whole season, I’d never watch NFL, that’s how much I love this game. It really is the best sport there is. These players are the greatest athletes on earth.

What a legend…humble, and went into it completely open minded and enjoyed it too. Glad you like our number 1 sport mate

Watch 1980's and 90's highlights. It was unrivalled. Truly the greatest sport ever played

This was great - I didn’t know anything about it. What an amazing sport! And there’s a women’s league? Would love to see you react to some of their highlights.

The best 50 marks of all time should be the next video.

Yes, the 16 yards (or 15 metres to be precise) is an approximation. It's roughly 10-12 running strides for the average player, and you can usually get away with a metre or two either way. The umpires usually won't penalize a player unless it's blatantly obvious he's run too far, because like you said, there's no way to accurately measure it on the field. And yes, it is rough on the body. Injuries are common, and some very serious, sometimes ending a player's season. You tend to breathe a sigh of relief when your team gets through a game with all players unscathed.

Richmond Tigers have won 3 of the last 4 Grand finals and Dustin Martin has been the best players so you should check his highlights. also Lance Franklin as well.

Season starts Thursday 7:25PM Australian Eastern Standard Time which is like 4:25AM New York time. If youre happy to wake up early and Thursday you can catch the season opener between Richmond Tigers Vs Carlton Blues. Glad you’ve taken such an enthusiasm into this great Australian sport. Go Tigers!

These players have been playing since they were young Kids, kids start playing afl from the age of 6 if i remember rightly. Loved your reaction by the way.

The atmosphere at a Grand Final is unreal. Been lucky enough to go to a few.

Your reaction to this amazing game makes my heart sing! Watch the 2009 Anzac Day match with triple m commentary. I’m an Essendon supporter and it’s the best finish to a game ever! Love to see your react 😀

The game they showed at the end, the grand final, I was at that one. On the top row. The players looked like ants.

There’s a USAFL now with teams all over your country. They have their own website where you can look up where the nearest team to you is.

Huge Port fan, despite having never lived anywhere near Australia. And yes, I can sing the team song from memory, even though I've never been closer to Australia than Hawaii.

Oh I forgot to say, on Grand Final day there are over, 100,000 people in the stadium and from what I gather not many stadiums around the world can hold over that amount. I was saying I'm from Perth Western Australia and we have 2 teams in the AFL - West Coast Eagles & Fremantle Dockers. We have a brand new stadium here and world class and holds over 60,000 people with the most led lighting in a stadium in the world. Would love for you to visit Perth & Melbourne to get the perspective on the game & experience. Cheers !!

Great seeing your reactions to this. It's such a great game, West Coast is my team. There has been a big change in the rules recently to stop too many concussions.

as an australian it is very cool and funny to see a non aussie actually really like the sport and with the 4th highest attendence in the world with our small population it could easily be the world most loved sport

Other than the granny (grand final) another game you must attend is our Anzac Day clash at the mcg. 25 April is our Anzac Day, pretty much most important day to Aussies, where we honour our service people. Collingwood and Essendon play as a key game and it’s spine tingling. Similar to a Memorial Day game. Even all the other clubs and fans watch this and respect this game. 100,000 people and you can hear a pin drop during last post. Either game (granny or Anzac Day) if you’re lucky to attend you wear your own club guernsey with pride for the love of the game. I’ve attended a few proudly but only one where my team competed in the grand and lost!

The grand final is fantastic, best day of the season. I wish you luck getting a ticket, every year there are people walking around with signs saying will pay big money for a spare ticket , normally a fruitless exercise.

Great content mate. I'm 5 foot 5 and played from ages 6 to 34 in Melbourne and Perth suburban leagues. Best game on the planet.

It really is the GREATEST GAME! Great to see your excitement mate.

Another interesting thing about this sport is the history, some of these clubs are over 150 years old.

The record attendance is 121,696 people for the 1970 Grand Final, there's more seating and less standing room now so capacity has fallen to around 100,000. Collingwood pulls the biggest crowds and has been involved in the top 5 highest attendances of all time and regularly brings a million people through the turnstiles each year, their average attendance per game is a little over 80,000

Awesome game. Am involved here in Australia. Seen a few reactions to this video, and one thing I'd like to ad. When they explain about the score "Collingwood 20 10 130, the 20 are goals, 6 x 20= 120, the 10 are 10 points, which are added to the goals, so 20. 10. 130 equals 20x6=120+10+130. Sounds like a 7 year uni degree, but you do get use to it. Love your work brother

Your intuition is excellent. it's a great game because play keeps going, stopping for less frequently than similar games. Soccer is similar for the continuance of play, but AFL is more aggressive and back-passing to keep control happens a lot less. Hopefully you've seen a bit more by now, and, yeah, if you can get to a grand final, you'll love it. The roar of the crowd is a physical thing that rips at your chest and makes you scream along with them. The noise goes through your body, and the play is fierce. They are elite athletes, with a bag of skills quite a bit bigger than most other team sports, and the players have a great blend of agility, endurance and toughness that makes it more exciting to watch, to my mind, than any other - and I do watch a lot of other sports around the world. AFL is like the pinnacle of them all for athleticism. And no fake injuries - these guys pride themselves on being tough, and,. for the most part, honourable sportsmen. Shout to the women's league, too, for having the same values. Cheers, mate.

I'm from south Australia mate and footy is everything here. During the season they cover front and back pages of the newspaper usually before any other news

You're spot on pal. They're absolute beasts. Just running machines. Season starts tomorrow. So excited! Keep up the great work!

It's an amazing game, played or followed from the age , and 10 yo me got to 1970 grand final, official crowd was 122,000 and they used to open the gates after halfway, so l got to watch approximately another 15,000 climb onto the roof of the stadium from late entries. It was deemed to dangerous so they started to limit attendance til they got it down to 100,000 seats. The crowd get so loud you can feel the ground vibrate.

Great reactions Mate! And just subscribed. Definitely try getting to the Grand Final... just a spectacular event. Keep up the great work!

Love your reaction mate, makes me so proud to play and coach this game.

Come to Australia between March and September for the footy season. Most games are played each weekend in the city of Melbourne.

One of my favourite reactions so far, mate.

And I saw someone say that lance franklin, Dustin Martin and gary Ablett jnr are the best players to react to. I agree with the first two but gary Ablett doesn’t have the best highlight reel, like I know he is probably the best to ever play the game but he doesn’t have the best highlights. You should react to Cyril Rioli and Eddie Betts instead. They are crazy!

You are by far the most intelligent person ive seen react to the afl, just the understanding of the game and your assumption are so much better then some things others say

From personal experience, having traveled from the west coast of Australia to Melbourne to attend the grand final of an AFL season, I can tell you it doesn't come cheap. On top of premium priced air tickets, upwards of $1,000 return, accommodation is also hard to get and very pricey. Then comes the game day costs. You can't just turn up and buy a ticket on the day. You must buy your ticket before the 6 month season even begins and you can't just buy a seat. You have to buy a package which consists of a breakfast including all sorts of entertainment and panel discussions, and your seat at the game. Very ordinary seats are the most likely to be available, and you'll be in a stadium with about 100,000 other people. Total cost for the exercise, excluding airfares from the US, would be in the vicinity of $4,000. If you want a place in a corporate box, just pick any two digit number and start adding 00000's! All that said, it's worth every penny.

Really enjoyed this my dude, great video👌

Legit the best kept sport in the world. Atmosphere is nuts at a game

AFL or Australian Football League was founded on the 2 October 1896. Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the oldest football code in the world. I am a Sydney Swans supporter.

Thanks from down under 👍

AFL is played on a cricket pitch. Early on it was a sport to keep cricket players fit in winter. Many children still play both sports.

Carlton football club is one of the first founding clubs and holds the most premiership cups in the league It is also one of the largest clubs known as the sleeping giant that the other clubs fear to awaken

There's also an Amazon prime series highlighting last season during the epidemic and such. It's called "Making Their Mark" I think. I highly reccomend it.

we start playing this game as kids. you learn to bounce every so often at a very young age. Also you don't have to bounce you ac just hold it and touch it to the ground

I am an avid "Western Bulldogs" fan in the AFL. I live in Melbourne not far from their home ground and go to the game when I can. It is such an exciting game and the players are so fit. You enjoy!

Port Adelaide is my team. Any game with port Adelaide vs Richmond games are always great battles, even though Richmond has been the most successful team since 2017 up till 2021 , having won the trophy in 2017 , 2019 and 2020 , they are the team that has dominated AFL in recent years. But every game between port Adelaide and Richmond are always great battles and so intense that you should really have a look at. Especially in 2020 and the game they played just a couple of weeks ago. 👍 If you get a chance, have a watch and let me know what you think.

I’m from Melbourne Australia and I’m a massive Carlton fan all my life. In Melbourne, one of the first questions you are asked is “ what footy team do you barrack for”? Football has always been like a religion here. Absolutely love it.

The shorter guys play in the centre. They run an average of 20 Kilometre’s a game. My team is Collingwood and we had your American player. Collingwood are the Magpies or just pies. We called him American pie. You always knew when he was near the ball when over 90,000 people started chanting USA. He is loved and he had to play lower levels for 4 years until he made first grade. When they got into a Grand Final his parents flew here to watch. We had football 10 years before you did. It was to keep Cricket players fit in the off season. It is one of the oldest codes of football anywhere and one of the best. If you love a really fast game. I watch your football and my team is the Green Bay Packers. My Dad got me to watch everything. He played Rugby League, Field Hockey and was a bicycle road racer, a really talented one. He really needed a son first.

The other unique thing about AFL is there are roles for tall people but what we use to call the rovers are much smaller players - for some roles there is an advantage in being smaller.

1989 VFL Grand Final (The AFL was known as the VFL pre-1990 btw)

Yes you’ve got a Watch the best Marks Of all time and the best goals of all time and that will blow your mind mate😉

Hey man, great channel great content. Loving all the AFL reacts... I've noticed you mentioned how much you like the Commentary on AFL matches. Search Bruce Mcavaney, Brian Taylor or just Best AFL Commentary. You won't be disappointed

The most entertaining team sport in the world!

The ANZAC day match 2021 should be on youtube by now, one of the best matches of the regular season between the Essendon Bombers and the Collingwood Magpies. And yes, AFL does shit on Rugby lol

as an australian i recommend you se the greatest marks in afl football and you will be suprised

Great vid by the way mate.... Footy during the 90s was rougher and harder than today

Great content mate. Best game on the planet.

It is also the most inclusive sport - any size can play, small nippy forwards, midfield bulls and smaller scrappers, lanky forwards and rucks! As a kid, even the smallest younger can believe that they could one day make it into the afl.

Yeah, when measuring the distance for bouncing the ball it is generally rough,

The black guy who takes that amazing mark is Nic Natanui, a Fijian background who is 2m (6'7 for the people who still use it) tall.

yes catching the ball is a "Mark" BUT a player catching the ball, jumping on the back of a anther play is as well a mark but also a "Specky" (A spectacular mark)

There is also no send off or sin bin rule, you can be reported but you can stay on the field and finish the game.

Also. Most players can hit a pass 60 yards or more. I haven't played footy since I was 14, I can still kick 50 yards (45m) with good accuracy

Haha awesome I'll sub just because you like our game 😁👍

Mate your comment that a catch like that is everyday in this sport, you are dead on the money! I love watching American sport, but being an Aussie, Aussie rules trumps them all! And find a way to get yourself to a grand final mate, been to one and it’s an experience like no other!

The field is big because it's actually a cricket pitch. The game was invented to help cricket players maintain their fitness during the off season (winter).

You should find a bar near you where expat Australians hung out find Australians who know AFL to help you with the finner details of the rules.

You might be interested in the AFL Superflood. Easy to find on KZfaq. Enjoy

So glad you're liking AFL! Buddy Franklin and Dusty Martin are a couple of great players to watch at the moment (and the best Dusty video to watch is the 2017 highlights video by Jack Sutton)

Watch Garry Ablet senior, he's a legend ,best player ever played AFL

They need to rephrase "bouncing every 16 yards." You can't run more than 16 yards without bouncing the ball. You can bounce it at any distance under the 16 yards. Given the shape of the ball, a bounce can go wrong though. If you do run more than 16 yards, the umpire blows his whistle and you forfeit possession. Most players don't manage more than three bounces before kicking the ball or handballing - an opponent is usually coming at them by then And yes, the 16 yards is a bit of a "guesstimate " on the part of the umpire, but they are good at it. The crowd also lets out a mighty howl if they think an opposition player has exceeded the 16 yards!

Watch 1980's and 90's highlights. It was unrivalled. Greatest sports ever played.

Dion Wilson is 100% right 👌🏼

I’m a massive Brisbane Lions supporter… Pretty much the entire team is on fire right now in terms of skill, accuracy and possessions.

if you want to watch a good game look up the schedule and catch a game like richmond vs geelong or port vs richmond, some games are a snore but if youre keeen look up Port Adelaide vs Richmond that played two weeks ago, two great teams, very close game and very loud crowd.

*at least* every 15 metres, or more like 15 strides. You can bounce as soon as you get it theoretically. Look for a club near you, probably is one if it's a big city.

Hawthorne Hawks! They just played against Enddon Bombers. Watch that! It was an amazing game! Only first round of the season! GO HAWKS!

I’ve watched a number of your videos, and you have a great sports brain. I hope you become a huge fan of the AFL.

The grand final is played in front of about 100,000 people every year

Got to watch Western bulldogs v Brisbane lions elimination final 2021. A true nail biter of a game

Best players to watch are lance franklin, dusty Martin and Gary ablett jr, best teams are sydney swans, Richmond tigers and Geelong cats

Another fun fact about the AFL Grand Final is the highest attendance for that game is 121,696. It's roughly 20,000 more than the highest attendance for the Super Bowl

You have to watch Buddy Franklin get his 1000th goal. Only happened a couple of months ago. One of the best moments ever in any sport. Same guy that took that one handed mark that you reacted to late in this video.

Aussie Rules Rule !!

There's no bigger rush than 90 thousand plus people all roaring as one.

If you go to a final a prelim is generally a better atmosphere because the grand final is full of corporates I’ve been to both and the prelim definitely had a better atmosphere

To watch a game , the 2018 Grand Final is a good intro. But keep in mind that your starting at the top of the tree

Love your post, nice to see your interest. Not being bias but it is an incredible game live. And my team is West Coast Eagles from Western Australia. Take a look at the map and you will find a few teams from each State in Australia but more teams from Melbourne. Cheers. David Perth Western Australia.

That only tackling between shoulder and knees saves so much damage injuries, from tackles in afl are a lot rarer then one would think

Dustin Martin for Richmond, magic to watch

In regards to bouncing the ball, which isn't explained quite as well as it could be in the vid, the rule is a player cannot run further than 15 metres (about 16 yards) without having touched the ball to the ground. The most effective way to do that is obviously to bounce it. The umpire judges it by eye. If the player runs too far the crowd also starts to react. In reality, players usually bounce the ball every few strides, just to make sure, so giving away a free kick is rare. A good vid to watch of the game play is the highlights of the 2017 grand final. It was a bit of a blow out, but the crowd goes off. It's a good video to get a sense of the atmosphere. The 2019 grand final was a great game, too, as the end was a genuine nail biter.

Taylor Swift just had her biggest ever concert at the MCG. 96 000 000 people.

Afl biggest hits part 1 is the best hits video, awesome reaction btw

Hope you see this post as your reaction was some months ago. Aussie Rules has just had their Grand Final between Melbourne Football Club ( the Demons ) & Footscray Football Club ( the Bulldogs ) . Melbourne ended up thrashing Footscray, but it has been lauded as the best football EVER played by a team in a grand final. I haven’t got a link for you, but do yourself a favour & react to the video that starts midway through the 3rd quarter. It probably runs about 17 minutes. Here you will see what these men/ boys are really capable of. Cheers, Graeme

Enjoying your reaction to AFL, do Eddie Betts, or Cyril Rioli highlights both top tier players.

Forgot to mention .....The bounce every 16 yards means that you can't run without bouncing it once within 15 metres which is 16 yards .. It;s a bit like a travel in basketball rule.. It's not measured officially but the umpires judge on how many paces the player takes ..They rarely get it wrong ..Also on 15 metres ..That's the minimum distance a kick can cover and been caught (mark) to be legal . If it's deemed too short the umpire calls play on and the player can still be tackled ..The vid doesn't cover the in possession rule and a few other key rules but the best way to learn them is to watch an actual game live or even a highlights package that the AFL posts on every single game every week .. Most of them go for about 6-7 minutes .. You'll soon pick up on the little things . There is also two other Americans that feature in the game . Dani Marshall from Arizona is the first woman to be drafted in the AFLW which is the professional womens league that's been now running for several years .. The other one is from my club , the Richmond Tigers . Her name is Peggy O'Neal from West Virginia who is the first woman to hold the post of President to any VFL/AFL club in history .. She is a wonderful lady and there are video's abbout her on You Tube too ..Cheers again ...

Another big hits for AFL, is Here comes the boom. enjoy

Other than bouncing the ball on the run..a player can lean down and touch the ball to the ground as he is running. Mostly when the ground is wet slippery etc.

have a watch the games before the 90s the games were 30 minutes per quarter, back then

My friend there are so many games of AFL that are great. Try the 1989 Grand Final played by Hawthorn and Geelong. It is possibly one of the best ever played!

I will welcome you mate when you visit my great country