American Reacts to What is AFL? Aussie Rules Explained 

And remember No 1 rule. It doesn't matter what team you support, but you must hate Collingwood.

The field is so large because the game was pretty much invented so they could use the cricket ovals during winter.

Just so you know, AFL may have elements of soccer, basketball, volleyball but it's actually been around LONGER then all those codes 😀🇦🇺 AFL 1858 Soccer 1863 Basketball 1892 Volleyball 1896

As an Australian, it always amazing to see what other people think of our game. Its a true fearless game like our rugby.

I've watched every reaction of this video . You understood the game quicker than anyone

You definitely need to check out more of this Sport bro, you won't be disappointed! Shoutout from Australia mate!

I myself am Swiss, but I follow the AFL since three years now. It‘s a really great sport!

As someone who moved to Oz, this blew me away when I got here. Awesome game. Thanks for doing this. Women do this too xxx

As an Aussie who’s played all my life and love the sport. I am soo impressed about how you picked up on the little details and things that make the game soo great. Your an American that understands the game and from only watching suck a basic video I am incredibly impressed. Welcome to Aussie rules.

Been playing since I was 6 and 29 now and got a game on the weekend 😁👍 best game on the planet I must admit you understood much better than others that have watched this video for the first time I was impressed

G'day from Australia, You've just fallen down the AFL rabbit hole

Welcome to the greatest sport youv never heard of!

I'm a Brit....discovered AFL last year...and man am I hooked.

Some years ago I was walking through a park during the final series in September. The park was a few miles away from the ground but you could still hear the cheer of the crowd. .

Great reaction. Fans? I remember going to a Lions v Nth Melbourne game in 1974, met a yank and his missus a bit lost inside the ground. Found them a good spot on a city flank. Left them unbelieving that I had driven 400 km to go to the game and I was travelling home afterwards. (It was a great game even if Nth won.)

You should try running around those fields 4x before the start of every training session. Good times!

Just some more info: Ground dimensions Australian rules football grounds, even at the highest level of the game, have no fixed dimensions. For senior football, the playing field is an oval, typically between 135-185 metres (148-202 yd) long goal-to-goal and 110-155 metres (120-170 yd) wide wing-to-wing. You're Gunna LOVE watching a full game.👍 Best sport in the world & one that's scarcely known about. 🇦🇺🌏👍 🍻

Ian, I only found your channel a week ago and subbed and set notifications. Been binge watching all week. Lol. I think you're a particularly nice guy and I find your exuberance and excitement infectous. Cheers, mate.

I love this sport, best atmosphere being there live in a huge crowd

Glad you are loving learning things about Australia , I’ve been an Aussie for over 60 yrs , I was born here , and love my country , it’s great

Being from New South Wales which historically has not played AFL (it originated in Victoria), I went to my first AFL game about 5 years ago, expecting to be a bit bored as the games are pretty long. Holy crap. Most of the players seem to be over 6', they are all super strong and fit. Each one of them is basically a superstar, the game is incredible to watch, high-scoring, it doesn't stop even if someone is injured, it's insane. It may just be the most amazing team sport on the planet.

The most reacted AFL videos are - AFL here comes the boom (big Hits) AFL know your enemy (more big hits) AFL 50 greatest marks (best catches) AFL players like - Dustin Martin, Cyril Rioli, Eddie Betts, have great highlight videos to watch. Choose whatever you want, after a couple reactions you’ll get many requests - no doubt. Enjoy

Just subscribed, love Americans reacting to the best game in the world, can’t wait for more reactions videos. from Australia 🇦🇺

So glad you like the game. It's a fantastic spectacle and really unique. Gotta get you into cricket next then you'll be a full honorary Australian.

I love your Burrito quote - I don't even watch these sports - in fact any sports - and yet I love watching your reactions, great energy, great enthusiasm and great chat! Good job man! Peace

"as long as your eye is on the ball, anything goes" - my re teacher

Watching you watch this introductory video had me excited for you. AFL is an incredibly exciting game.

Hey mate that was a great reaction, good to see someone react well to the sport and actually listen to what the announcer says.

Hey mate! Fantastic reaction! Love to see you get into our sport. Amazing to think it goes all the way back to 1858. I recommend watching Melbourne vs Collingwood, Round 12, 2017 for some great highlights!

Loved this reaction! You were concise and really easy to watch, will definitely be subscribing to you :)

It's awesome to see non Australians learn about AFL

I am so proud of our game when I see these reaction vids. It's given me a whole new appreciation for the greatest part of my life. Best sound of the game? 'BAAAAALLLLL'

Watch Cyril riolis marks. That guy was insane. Go Hawks! 💛🤎💛🤎

Just so you get an idea of the time... it's up to an additional 10 minutes per quarter. So upto 120 minutes for a complete game. Some players run up to 18Km (about 11 miles) per game. Bouncing the ball is a complete skill on it's own. Carlton (my team) recruited an Irish Gaelic football player... his first bounce in football went back over his head. As they said in the video, AFL players range between 5'6" tall and 6' 11" tall (Aaron Sandilands retired a couple of years back so there are no 7 footers in the AFL now). What they don't mention is the weights. The lightest player is only 64kg (141 lbs) while the heaviest is 114kg (251 lbs) and the little guys are not afraid of going in to tackle the big fellas. If you want to watch the intense, exciting full contact sport in the world... played without padding... welcome to the AFL. A sport now played in 32 countries around the world with around 35,000 people playing it.

Subscribed for more AFL reactions. Love your analysis in this video.

I love watching others from around the globe react to footy. This is one of the best yet as far as getting excited. Have subbed cause I wanna see you follow more and react to highlight reels. You gotta pick a team to support to. Just not Collingwood. Or Richmond. Actually just steer clear of any Victorian teams. They forget sometimes its a national comp now and not just local haha. Look forward to other vids man. Nice one

Afl football is unique so many skills involved glad you enjoyed very nicely presented totally enjoyed best wishes and many thanks for sharing new friend looking forward to seeing more of your work 👍 🛎

The defending team - if they knock the ball through their own goal - it's like an own goal in soccer and they give one point to the opposition.

Girls and boys play this in school, we do it for PE! The game was originally designed to keep our cricketers in shape over the winter. There used to be a lot of fist fights on the ground but the game has been cleaned up in the last 20 or so years. Been following my beloved Magpies.... Collingwood since I was 5 years old and will until the day I die!

Australian football was codified in 1858, English football was codified in 1863, American football was codified in 1873 So Nah....is not a copy of English, American or Rugby football....

Oh yeah, great video! The fields are massive! I go for Eagles (WA team) and I was in the crowd when Nic Nat got that massive mark (he's number 9 yellow) and wow the energy in that stadium was huge and electric, just for a mark so you can imagine if your teams wins a game let alone the grand final energy! There's also some absolute drongos as well but you get that anywhere 🤣 Highly recommended you watch next season or even the season just finished but to really feel it, you have to go to a live game cos that is something else.

Watch 50 greatest goals and marks and AFL biggest knockouts!!

The thing is I'm twelve and I'm playing under 15s of Aussie rules and we play on full size ovals too and they're really not that big at all like I can run from one side to the other and back both ways in under a minute and I'm one of the slowest runners my age I know

I’m an American who got into Aussie Rules before the 2016 AFL season. It is pretty much the only sport I follow now, along with the women’s league, the AFLW. Go Bulldogs!

not australian, most people i know that migrated to australia have never been to AFL, so did i, but there was this one time we actually went because we got tickets and why not? fuck man it was awesome to say the least. the energy as you describe from the audience gets 100 times louder and better when youre there in person, and the echo in MCG is so goddamn good. i dont have a team but woul 100% go again. (sucks for lockdown tho...) my friend described it in one sentence: it's great because you get to yell at them and everyone yells with you

“Banger” it’s “bloody Legends” mate 👌🏻👍👍🤙🤙💙🔥🔥♥️💙🌹🌹♥️💙🥊🥊♥️🏈🏈🏆😈😈🇦🇺🇦🇺 thanks to all the other countries tuning in & loving 🥰 our game. 💙🦋💙🇦🇺🇦🇺

Hallelujah! You're the first American reactor to Aussie Rules who's opening comment is not "that must be painful" or "what's the most common injury?"

Great, honest reaction. Keep watching!

Something interesting about the field size is that because many of the stadiums they have traditionally played in are cricket ovals there is no standard size. Sort of like baseball outfields because cricket grounds aren’t standard either. The dimensions of of ovals can var my quite a lot. They are all symmetrical but the width and the length vary

Love my Geelong Cats. I miss going to the game every week with my bro in law, nephew and my youngest. Nothing like watching it Live

most complete athletes on the planet. no other sport requires ALL players to have such a wide variety of skills/abilities...GO LIONS!

Shout out from Australia! Just thought I would let you know that the AFL Grand Final (our version of the SuperBowl) is actually tomorrow Saturday September 25 if you're interested :) Being held in Perth, Western Australia though, not Melbourne this year due to COVID.

Watching this has made me appreciate AFL and whole new level . As an Aussie who previously didn't get it. This is the toughest ball sport on the planet by far .

Very intelligent commentary for your first time viewing the sport! Bouncing the ball if you run with it is required every 15 metres - Americanised to 16 yards for this vid - and is a little like the "travel" rule in basketball. Also if you're legitimately tackled while in possession and you've had a prior opportunity to pass it or kick it, you'll be penalised "holding the ball" and a free kick awarded to the opposition (the exception is when you "mark" the ball, ie, catch it on the full from someone's kick). So the game moves fast with kicks and handpasses. It's a great spectator sport! You'll soon learn Collingwood is the team everybody else loves to hate, but whose fans are hyper-passionate - not sure what the NFL equivalent is.

AFL is also derived from the game ‘marngrook’ that was the game played by indigenous Australians. AFL or Australian Rules was developed by students at a prestigious Melbourne boys college who they think spent time playing marngrook with the indigenous population, it was played as a way to keep fit during the cricket off season and I believe the first games went for days ! Victoria is the home of aussie rules though it is big in other states, the NT, ACT and Tas don’t have teams in the National completion.

G'day champ glad to see we have international viewers starting to get into our game, it doesn't get the credit it deserves outside of Australia probably as it's only played here except for some small leagues in some countries but that's why it's called Aussie rules. The grounds are huge on avg 170mt x 100mt with midfielders covering 16km's on avg at an avg sprint of 20-30km p/hr. Majority of players kick the ball 50mtr in the air some 60mt,love watching speckies or high marks with guys standing on the heads of someone who is say 185cm tall doing it in a leap without the hands interfering with the opposition a cpl who do it regularly are Liam Ryan (West Coast Eagles)& a Collingwood player who's name escapes me sorry. The easiest way to get the game is to watch it the rules can confuse even the ardent supporters like myself mainly because of the speed the game is played at. I could go on but I won't oh yeah the grand final crowd is closer to 100000 people than 90000 an example of crowd numbers is West Coast Eagles there home ground is Optus oval capacity 60000 we avg about 58000 per game and have 101000 fully paid members with the most famous is probably Collingwood A good game to watch would be 2018 grand final btwn West Coast Eagles & Collingwood who have a young American on the list Mason Cox. We love it it's crazy and it's our game- tough,physical,fast passed and spectacular. Pls enjoy it Regards Brett a proud aussie

Great review love your enthusiasm.

Love your format Ian, you didn't succumb to the normal "me the watcher in big box, action in little box" EgoTube format for this type of video. And I enjoyed your video as well - keep them coming. Remember if the announcer says "he kicked a behind", this is referring to "booting a minor" or "scoring a point instead of a 6-point goal". It's not referring to the team captain chastising a poorly-performing player.

Ayyy go geelong!! amazing vid mate you should really look more into AFL you won't regret it!

Hey mate. Just found you due to your Aussie classic series at Bathurst. Get onto this year's grand final! Played in Perth cos of covid. I'm a big Demons fan and member and watched it from the front row. Watch it!!! Great game! Go Dee's!!!!!!!!!

I’m biased because I grew up playing and watching AFL, but the thing that I like most about it is the freedom of movement you have in the game. No offside rule, plenty of space and the ability to pass the ball forwards, sideways and backwards allows for a freedom of movement not often replicated in many sports.

Hey, I'd love to see your reaction to some of the best marks/best goals compilations. Please do a video on that if/when you can. Like the "Marks of the Year" or "Goals of the Year" from 2001-2019. Great stuff ^^ Edit: I see you did that!! Awesome!!! Watching it now ^^

You do know us Aussies love a good bloke and as far as I consider, you're a good bloke.

Nice vid. You should do a reaction video for the Grand Final that was just played...ended a 57year premiership (championship) drought...Epic!

This game is amazing, truly an Aussie work of art

I always knew about Aussie Rules, but didn't know that much. Good intro

I just got hyped for a sport that I've been watching and grew up with for the past 17 years

Aussie rules was invented in the 1850's . The Melbourne Demons were founded in 1858 and are the oldest football club in the world . .. They are also on the top of the ladder with 12 wins and only 2 losses.

The ground is so big because AFL grounds are also cricket grounds, The MCG where the grand final is played the letters stand for Melbourne Cricket Ground. The game was started so cricket players could stay in shape during cricket off season.

Your very accurate with your review best I’ve seen on RU-vid so far

Review Nic Naitanui - you won’t be disappointed 👍 incredible athlete and he can slam dunk!

Something else unique to AFL is the father/son rule. If a player appears in at least 100 games for a team, if and when his son plays and nominates for the AFL draft then the team his father played for has dibs on him. If they pass on him, any of the other clubs can select him.

What I love about AFL is that you'll see up to four generations in one family at the game. Babies through to grandparents.

Aussie Rules Footy is one of those sports, that once you've "get it" there's no turning back. It is spectacular.

Check out this game from a few weeks ago. (I'm a Cats supporter and I was 'noisy' in my house!) 13 lead changes in the game. Scores level or a kick the difference at the 1/4 and half time breaks. Keep your eye on the time and score in the bottom left....

If you want to watch the AFL Grand Final it is on Saturday 25 September @ approximately 5:15am New York time. Because of Covid the match will be played at Optus Stadium in Perth, Western Australia, rather than the Melbourne Cricket Ground which is the traditional ground for the Grand Final. The match is going to be played between Melbourne (which is thought to be one of the oldest football clubs of any code) and Western Bulldogs, both Victorian teams.

Greatest game on earth Try Dusty martin highlights for a current superstar. Then best marks and best goals. Game has been played since the 1860s, midfielders run over 10miles per game. It's a fast flowing game that rewards effort and commitment. It's a great game to watch with your friends over a BBQ and beers

The MCG can hold 100,000 plus., and the guy offering the narration is quite accurate.

80’s footy was bloody awesome! We used to go every weekend just for the punch ons lmao

I’m Aussie and i have to say you really understood what the game is about. It’s a great game. We can get 95000 to a game.

AFL Fields use cricket fields in the winter. They are generally around 135 to 185 meters long by 110 to 155 meters wide (1094 to 202 yards long by 120 to 508 yards wide). The ball bounces quite easily but if it’s wet or the ground is ruined it’s almost impossible to bounce. There are a few more rules like incorrect disposal is a free kick to the other team and getting tackled with the ball without trying to get rid of it is as well (holding ball)

Subscribed from your reaction bro. ✊🏾🔥💯🇳🇿🇨🇰

Omg. You remind me of Ed Sheran here lol. And that sport is something out if this world 🌎

Oh - and those "spectacular catches" are colloquially called "a speckie" - and that carries on into normal Aussie languange. E.g. "Did you see that stack at Bathurst?" "Yeah mate pretty speccy". There's also a very well known song from the 70s or maybe early 80s about footy called "Up there Cazaly". Cazaly was a player who was master of the speccy mark. You can find that song here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pxM8XB61ZvU.html That song was almost like a national anthem in the Aussie rules states when I was a kid.

I go for the Melbourne Demons who were the first team established in 1858! And we have not won a Premiership since 1964 and we're on top of the Ladder this season, so its looking positive! ❤💙

The first Aussie rules game was played in the 1850's between Melbourne grammar school and scots college in Melbourne. The game was based on an aboriginal game called "marngrook" (ball game) in which the players would kick the ball high into the air and leap to retrieve it. The ball was oval shaped and usually made from possum hide.

We got women playing AFL now too… and they play just as hard as the blokes!🤩

the season has about 6 weeks to go before we play finals. my team is port adelaide. good time to tune in too the game

and if you want to see a crowd that big deathly silent, look up an Anzac day at the MCG

The burrito of rules produces a game that is in constant flow. The ground is so large because it's played (in Winter) on cricket grounds that get used for cricket in Summer.

Great reaction! Some good AFL recommendations in the comments. One that how a mixture of all types of highlights is “AFL - Best Commentary Moments” you’ll see all types highlights; big hits, goals, marks (catches) and clutch moments

Check out that suggested game highlights North Melbourne vs Gold Coast

Great video Mate! Next game in 1 hour, first elimination final between Melbourne Demons and Geelong cats, meeeow!Melbourne should win by, my guess 35 points. Tomorrow night Port Adelaide Power, my team will play Western Bulldogs a Melbourne based team. Then the winner of each game will play off in the grand final

Your NFL is amazing to watch and is made for TV. Got to go to my first game live when I visited your country 2 years ago. When you are there at a game the whole experience of the cheerleaders and marching bands etc is very entertaining, however the game itself is very stop/start with a lot of down time. This is quite different to Aussie rules (AFL) where the only breaks are the 30 seconds after a goal is scored!! This is a game best seen live as there is a lot happening off the ball, like a game of high speed chess! Also the oldest codified sport in the world!! not bad for a little country down the bottom of the world!! Another interesting fact was that is was originally played in an area of parkland/bushland with trees !!

You can get the ball across the oval in 3-5 kicks, its amazing how small that oval can become when played at the highest level.

The field is a cricket ground. That really big one shown at the staet is the Melb Cricket Ground, the MCG, or simply the 'G' Its about 180 metrs long and about 170m wide. The record attendence is 121,000 from the 1960's Glad you like it.

It's the most attended game in the world per head of Capita, the record attendance is 121,969 people.

My team Collingwood have a 6’10 American playing for them, his name is Mason Cox.Have a look at the 2018 preliminary final Collingwood vs Richmond his best game,also watch the Mason Cox story on how he came to play AFL

It's the best game on the planet, You just have to get into it and you're hooked, I'm an Aussie and Follow the Saints (st Kilda) I work at the MCG for the AFL during the season as the P.A. Operator for the stadium

Slavery was still around in the south in the us when it was invented the civil war hadn’t started yet 1858