redrooster
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- Feb 26, 2011
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Yeh this is an interesting thread.
I've played a few different sports growing up, but AFL has been the only thing I've ever really gotten into watching. Even as a kid when we went to Rugby League matches we'd lose interest sometime in the second half and usually leave early. I've always had friends which follow other sports, and I'm happy to go watch it as a social or occasional thing, but AFL is the only thing that can really grab and hold my interest (and make me want to schedule life around it).
Spent about 4-5 years living overseas recently and it didn't really change much to be honest. Went to baseball socially (but eventually I couldn't even bring myself to do that, worst game ever in my opinion). Also played quite a few new and different sports. But at the end of the day I'm still an Aussie Rules fan.
Perhaps this is because growing up in Canberra I didn't have many live games to see, so there wasn't much of a void in that respects when living overseas. It was pretty much life as usual. I can imagine it being a bigger transition for those coming from more traditional heartlands...
I've played a few different sports growing up, but AFL has been the only thing I've ever really gotten into watching. Even as a kid when we went to Rugby League matches we'd lose interest sometime in the second half and usually leave early. I've always had friends which follow other sports, and I'm happy to go watch it as a social or occasional thing, but AFL is the only thing that can really grab and hold my interest (and make me want to schedule life around it).
Spent about 4-5 years living overseas recently and it didn't really change much to be honest. Went to baseball socially (but eventually I couldn't even bring myself to do that, worst game ever in my opinion). Also played quite a few new and different sports. But at the end of the day I'm still an Aussie Rules fan.
Perhaps this is because growing up in Canberra I didn't have many live games to see, so there wasn't much of a void in that respects when living overseas. It was pretty much life as usual. I can imagine it being a bigger transition for those coming from more traditional heartlands...