ICE HOCKEY FAN REACTS: The ENTIRE History Of The AFL

[@emgee65]

The city you enquired about is Melbourne, Australias most populous city. It’s the birthplace of the AFL and home to 9 of the 18 teams. The AFL is hands down the most popular sport in Australia.

[@michaeltestro1643]

Sydney is more populus

[@jessovenden]

@@michaeltestro1643True, but as both cities spread it’s beginning to be a case of where you draw the boundary line. I’m from Melbourne and I love it to bits, but instead of doing the usual thing and boasting about my city and must say that Sydney is just beautiful. That harbour! As I remember it is possibly the prettiest city I’ve seen, and I have seen a few. And on one long ago stay there I concluded that it only ever rains in Sydney at night! Obviously not true but it gave me that feeling….

[@R0d_1984]

List of cities in Australia by population Sydney (5.450m) Melbourne (5.207m) Brisbane (2.707m) Perth (2.309m) Adelaide (1.446m) Gold Coast (735k) Newcastle (527k) Canberra (467k) Geelong (302k) Hobart (254k) Townsville (187k) Cairns (161k)

[@jessovenden]

@@R0d_1984 The boundaries of these cities are adjusted periodically and in simple terms, because I’m a bit simple, the population counts depend upon where those boundaries are currently agreed to be. Melbourne, for example, is growing and spreading, what used to be towns are now suburbs. This seems to have been happening since soon after Melbourne was established. And naturally this applies to all the other cities. Thank you for the current population information R0d!

[@wildeturkey2006]

5:17 is Albert Park (F1 race course) in Melbouren

[@pbfyt]

It is. Just on the outskirts of the CBD.

[@EamonnReacts]

Ah ok I'm a very mild F1 fan (pretty much just watch Drive to Survive lol) but it did look familiar. Any chance it was also featured in one of the Forza Horizon games? Ha

[@SpeedyCM]

Further on John Coleman, he only played about three season's before suffering a knee injury that at the time was career ending whereas nowadays it would likely be six months or less. Another thing with Coleman was that he apparantly was so exciting to watch that each quarter the crowd would follow him from one end of the ground to the other.

[@michaeltestro1643]

That sounds like bullshit. How you gonna get from one side of the ground to the other?

[@SpeedyCM]

​@@michaeltestro1643 that was back in the early 50's mate at Windy Hill, no big flash grandstands blocking the way so you walked standing room only.

[@frankmartin3057]

P.S. I also want to add that there were two major Irish immigrations events in Victoria. In the 1840's the Rural Reform Act forced many small Irish landowners off their land. The 1850's Victorian Gold Rush brought many more Irish Immigrants. They could recognise this hybrid game and it' similarity to Gaelic Football giving the code instant popularity.

[@gamortie]

5:12 this is Melbourne CBD, looking north from Albert Park Lake, home of the Australian F1 GP

[@berranari1]

Yes Eamonn, you are correct about State of Origin. Australian Football started State of Origin football in 1977. Rugby League copied the concept and began their beloved tradition in 1980. 🤔

[@user-mg1p]

As a person who has been to three NRL grand finals and many NRL games..I know why state of origin worked for league. I was playing squash in clump Rd Mt Gravatt Brisbane..1980 Brisbane was not like WA SA Vic.....it never had big crowds at football like the other cities it was car's parked around the ground like country football in South Australia.Western Australia Victoria.. Valleys.. South's who mal meninga played for.. Wynnum manly. The first State of origin copied from the AFL was Brisbane's first ever big crowd at a football game! NSW were only half hearted about the concept so Queensland kept beating them that fired NSW up the rest is history! The reason why AFL fan's didn't like it the AFL origin. There is nothing bigger than your club Collingwood Carlton Essendon Richmond ..160 year's a brother hood where you want your Ashes laid down! They didn't want their best players injured over line's on a map!

[@berranari1]

@@user-mg1p Correct. Except for the part about the AFL fans. It wasn't the fans, and it wasn't Collingwood and Carlton. It was the West Coast Eagles and the Adelaide Crows. Look at when the Crows joined and when they stopped AFL state of origin. Ultimately the Adelaide Crows were created to be South Australia. Look at the colours. But it would have been better if that team was never created. Norwood and Port Adelaide could have been the two SA AFL sides and State of Origin would still be a thing in that sport. But as you say the clubs are more important to the people. But seriously if you look at soccer and basketball there are great clubs but they also play national team matches. The same thing with ice hockey. Australian Football clubs just don't have to worry about losing players to injury in representation matches. But it was the clubs that were in charge of the decisions not the fans.

[@user-mg1p]

@@berranari1 And you mentioned the crows and port. West coast. Then there's Sydney and Brisbane. I heard someone say once we have interstate rivalry big time with all the clubs around Australia. And soon Tassie comes on board!👌

[@berranari1]

@@user-mg1p ah ha, yes. GWS vs Sydney is a big thing now. And the Queensland clash between Brisbane and Gold Coast is getting bigger. But rivalries come from history, it takes time. From the point of view of the Adelaide Crows they are rivals with everyone interstate, but in reality they are rivals with Port Adelaide. Brisbane Lions and Collingwood are definitely rivals now. And that's not even including the Collingwood - Fitzroy part of the rivalry. But remember that the time that the Adelaide Crows destroyed the state of origin concept was before 1997. The year that Port Adelaide was admitted to the AFL and the first time Adelaide Crows won the AFL. But state of origin was gone. Adelaide Crows have won the AFL and they didn't want anything to stop them. Kudos to the Brisbane Broncos club for not doing the same thing. 👍

[@macman1469]

​@@berranari1As a West Coast fan . I thought it was smart making new teams EAGLES and CROWS so that fans of the local leagues would all back them . However, do think that PT Adelaide somehow got a raw deal . They were/are the most successful team in probably the oldest league in the country. That should have carried more weight. They should at least be allowed to wear their prison stripes at home games .

[@Prsboy78]

This guy's videos are really good. Great content 👍. The women's league is really gaining momentum and is changing the junior leagues for the better, so so so many really talented girls that will potentially push the league and definitely improve club culture across our country. Personally have been a coach and a president of a NSW club in a predominately rugby league area having the women's league has created a massive positive for the junior leagues and future of the game.

[@thomask6681]

That's Melbourne ,The sports capital of the world which also hosts The Aust open tennis, F1 Grand Prix, The MELBOURNE Cup horse-race which holds a public holiday on the 1st Tuesday in November among other major sports events.

[@Kaleen_YT]

Thanks for reacting to the video. I liked and subbed.

[@marklane58]

Collingwood v Fremantle Friday 24th of May Start time is 8:10pm on Melbourne TV, for you it's 6:10am, if you're in Toronto. That's a bit early for footy (and I can see you need to get some sleep). When we watch "live" we record it and start late so we can skip the ad breaks at each goal, skip quarter time and have a half time break for coffee. Then we end roughly when the live game ends.

[@Stix-n9k]

Tasmania now has an AFL team. They will be debuting in a couple years.

[@user-mg1p]

Did Disney let them use the Devil's after all? They should not have had to ask!

[@macdac9861]

5:10 it’s Melbourne, the home of the sport the MCG and 9 of the clubs

[@timbo0173]

Yes mate Melbourne...AND that view over the lake to the city is the F1 track

[@gamortie]

14:42 that is Barry Hall, who, unfortunately, never learnt to use his words….

[@suechandler8162]

Victoria was the state which had most teams from different suburbs. It was called VFL. Melbourne is the capitol city.

[@brentdavis3102]

14:40 No not him that's Barry Hall. Just using Bazza's dog shot punch as a comparison.

[@jayweb51]

Australian Rules Football is the oldest codified football code in the world. The South Australian National Football League (SANFL formerly SAFA) established in April 1877, and is the oldest continuous football competition in the world; a month later the Victorian Football Association was established, and in 1896 six of the strongest VFA clubs broke away and established the Victorian Football League.

[@CliveWebbAustralia]

This is a very good and short explanation of the AFL...

[@whymeeveryone]

Its Melbourne south of Sydney on the southern coast.

[@jessovenden]

Mostly, the fans who are members OWN the clubs! We have a public holiday for the grand final in Victoria. Oh yes, and Australia didn’t exist as a nation until 1901, so Australian football and many of the clubs are older than Australia.

[@TheHsan22]

The marngrook connection is open to conjecture. Much later after "Australian Rules" was invented it was assumed to have been been inspired by Aboriginals playing their game, however it could easily have been the opposite was true.

[@magma16k96]

You should react to the history of the Carlton Collingwood rivalry next, great video by the same guy i think

[@user-mg1p]

Yes like Carlton v Collingwood was the biggest rivalry in Australia till over the years the Queensland v NSW state of origin has overtaken that! Still Collingwood and Carlton have the record 121000. Plus crowd! Just the game last week. No final just a normal game 90.000! Professor Robert Manning Clarke said that the AFL/VFL was the first Sport in modern times to attract large crowds in the early 1900s in Melbourne Australia. That's very cool!

[@jayweb51]

It's not that there isn't enough talent in the women's league, it is that the AFL aren't treating these athletes with the respect they are due; the women's competition in the NRL play full season games and finals, while the AFLW only get to play limited season games and finals. The AFLW is ready to stretch their wings; all the AFL has to do is stop clipping them.

[@timrozitis961]

Only issue with it being a night GF (in 2020, and Twilight in 2021) is that it's non-traditional. GF is always played at 2:30PM on Saturday. There is a big push to change that, but there's a strong voice of traditionalists hat push back strongly against that.

[@SpeedyCM]

The main push for a night GF comes from television broadcasters who can make more money from a night GF. They then offer more money to the AFL which gets that organisation behind the push but the sports fan base is almost unanimous against the push for a night GF.

[@DeathAblazed]

i find it funny that a lot of the people who wanted a night grand final quickly changed back to wanting it to be in the day after we actually had one at night. the only ones who really think its better are the broadcasters who want more money. to the average fan it is not a better product being at night considering a lot of people generally plan a whole day around it.

[@EamonnReacts]

Well hopefully it stays at 2:30pm on Saturdays. I'll be able to watch it live if so! The night games are too late for me over in Canada.

[@devo6488]

@@DeathAblazedwhat? The Perth gf was just about the best ever, don’t mean the game although it was a good one, but the spectacle.

[@frankmartin3057]

As much as I would love the story of marngrook being the origin of Australian Football I don't accept it. Sadly, there is little evidence to support this theory. The fact is that between 1830 and 1850 approx 1500-2,000 Aboriginals were massacred in Victoria. The white man did not think the black man had much to offer. This was colonial times and everything we did or thought had it's origin in Britain. Tom Wills attended the Rugby School in England for six years from 1850, and in his final year was Captain of Football. He travelled the UK extensively and watched Irish migrants playing Gaelic Football in Liverpool. He was so impressed by the game that he wrote a letter to his father stating that Australia should have 'a game of it's own.' The English public schools all had their own games, however the past and present students believed that the Rugby Game was superior to the games played at Eton, Harrow etc. This led to the rules of the Rugby Game being published English newspapers in 1825 and 1833 to promote the game. The rules were codified in 1845 and thereafter simply known as Rugby. These rules clearly outline how to claim a 'mark' and state the dimensions of the oval shaped ball to be used. On his return to Australia Wills followed his dream of a uniquely Australian game and this included the coin toss (Rugby) the handball (Gaelic Football) and names for particular positions. Terms like Ruck (Rugby) were also introduced, as well as the oval shaped ball, which were first made by a bootmaker named Gilbert in the English village of Rugby. So, to my mind there is more evidence to support the Rugby/Gaelic Football augment than a mangrook origin, although Wills did see Indigenous men in the Geelong area playing the game. AFL as we know it is fast, skilful and entertaining and is certainly a unique game which I have enjoyed playing and watching. Sadly, for some, it is a hybrid game and reflects the Aussie talent for taking the best the world has to offer and making it in something different. I also acknowledge the contribution of indigenous women and men to the game.

[@michaelfink64]

That view of Melbourne you commented on is a view of the city from Albert Park Lake, where the Formula 1 Grand Prix is held. The other city with the bouses on canals is Gold Coast. It's a bit like Miami. A lot of the vision is only loosely connected to the commentary. The guy punching the other player that you said deserved suspension was Barry Hall and this was not the event in the 1950s mentioned by the narrator. Unsurprisingly, Barry Hall took up boxing after retiring from football. The Grand Final is usually played on a Saturday afternoon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, so the game during the pandemic in Brisbane at night was a break with tradition. The stand rule was a change that the AFL introduced to try to improve the flow and speed of the game. Up until then, the player standing the mark (the spot were a mark had been taken or a free kick awarded) was allowed to move laterally (but not forwards) to attempt to smother a kick at an angle. The AfL wanted to open up the game, to increase the chance of a player passing to a team mate, so they decided that the player on the mark had to stand like a statue and not move sideways. There were examples of players barely moving on the mark and having a 50 m penalty, a significant disadvantage, paid against them. It also looks a bit silly having a player stand to attention while the player with the ball can just run around them. Just a suggestion: I think it is a bit disrespectful to your audience to keep yawning in your videos. If you are bored by it, at least pretend that you are interested.

[@B-tr9kz]

He is tired champ, he’s up late doing these videos. No need to take offence.

[@michaelfink64]

@@B-tr9kz Ok, I like his videos, I just think he could try to suppress his yawns (appreciate that he covers his mouth, though).

[@gamortie]

9:42 I think this is the Gold Coast….

[@Iansaxton-m9i]

that is a picture of melbourne

[@shmick6079]

Another reason why the video is misleading: Tom Wills did not create the game after observing aboriginal kids playing Marngrook. There is a possibility that he was influenced by marngrook in some way, but there’s no evidence for that. In fact, the game was originally created by Wills and two other men. Together, they had strong knowledge of early versions of rugby and Gaelic football (and probably soccer) from the UK, and you can see the influence from both in Australian football.

[@user-mg1p]

And marngrook obviously!

[@user-bf8ud9vt5b]

Wills didn't create Aussie Rules, he was just part of a group who drew up the first rules. But he's credited with being the person who was the original impetus for codifying a local football game. Nor was the game inspired by marngrook. It was a local variation of the different ball games being played in public schools in England where Wills and others were educated (Wills himself was educated at Rugby School). Apart from Wills living in an area where marngrook was reportedly played, there’s no evidence * whatsoever * that it influenced or inspired the original Aussie Rules drawn up in the 1850s. The only real similarity with marngrook is leaping up to catch the ball, but that didn't become a part of the game until much later when kicking became more prevalent. The link to marngrook is part urban myth and large part recent wishful thinking presented nowadays by some as fact.

[@user-mg1p]

Rubbish will's was a boy on his parents farm watching natives playing marngrook! He obviously was influenced by it!

[@user-bf8ud9vt5b]

@@user-mg1p TL;DNR: Wills - who favoured Rugby style rules - played a very minor part in the formation of the game, which has since regrown in the telling. The idea that Wills, let alone Aussie Rules, was influenced by marngrook is recent wishful thinking and pretty much imaginary garbage. Do you realise that the game we see today looks very different from the 1850s version? It was more like rugby as it was then played, which was itself different than the rugby of today. Wills literally went to Rugby School and played the game there. At this time, there were already versions of these sort of ball games being played in Melbourne but before each game the two sides would agree on what the rules would be. Wills merely suggested settling a set of common rules, and was but one member of the little group who drew up those first rules. As a matter of record, they went over the set of rules they knew of from four English schools. There is absolutely zero suggestion from anyone that marngrook influenced anything. All of Wills' own rules suggestions (he was reported to have favoured the rugby rules) weren't even taken up.

[@user-bf8ud9vt5b]

@@user-mg1p Wills did not “put down a set of rules”. He merely called for a set of rules to be standardised for the ball games already being played in Melbourne quite independently of him. He was also just one member of the resulting committee. There is absolutely zero evidence - as you’ve helpfully noted - that Wills or anyone else gave marngrook a moment’s thought. From the AFL’s own website: “They considered various rules relating to rugby, soccer and Gaelic football. Hammersley later revealed that Wills, who had studied at Rugby School in England as a teenager, had "suggested the Rugby rules, but nobody understood them except himself", so they were abandoned.” They didn’t even listen to him! The original game contained nothing that wasn’t already part of the English ball games they were already playing - they all contained running and catching. So does American football! Obviously influenced by marngrook! 🤣 The “jumping” bit we think of today wasn’t even a part of the original Aussie game, which more resembled a rolling scrimmage. Kicking was far less prevalent, too. Comparing marngrook to the game played today is absurd ‘evidence’ of what a bunch of English-school educated men thought nearly 170 years ago.

[@user-bf8ud9vt5b]

@@user-mg1pWills is your only tenuous connection to marngrook. But Wills didn't create Aussie Rules. He only played a minor role by calling for the codification of a set of rules for the ball games already being played in Melbourne ... all of which had nothing to do with marngrook whatsoever. It's a matter of historical record that the small group he was then part of examined the rules of several games being played in England. Wills' only recorded suggestion was making the game like Rugby, but no one else was interested! That's it! That's Wills' total involvement in the creation of Aussie Rules, one half of a puffteenth of sod all, which in 1850 barely resembled the game we see today. The end.

[@michaeltestro1643]

That is a complete load of shit. Wanka

[@Honkersification]

My nephews and uncle pay hockey in Canada. Now, that is a sport I could not play.

[@Honkersification]

G'day champ. Don't listen to the Aussie naysayers. OK. Fair enough. I do have Canadian relatives. But, it should not take a little drop of blood. Now, that sounds unusual. Keep up the good work.

[@shmick6079]

The video is a little misleading. The 1896 VFL was not born of the earlier VFA. The VFA and VFL coexisted for more than 100 years, and originally they were in competition as to which league was stronger. The VFL became the stronger league and the VFA slowly died out.

[@RobertJW]

The VFA renamed itself to become the VFL when the 1896 VFL went national and became the AFL.

[@shmick6079]

@@RobertJW no, that didn’t happen until recently. The VFL was a breakaway league which lured teams from the VFA when it started in 1897. Both the VFA and VFL coexisted for over 100 years. The AFL change occurred in 1990.

[@RobertJW]

@@shmick6079 Yes, and when the VFL became the AFL in 1990, the VFA became the VFL in 1996.

[@shmick6079]

@@RobertJW apologies I read your comment as saying that happened in 1896.

[@RobertJW]

@@shmick6079 All good! Cheers

[@Honkersification]

Well done champ. I think that last point in the doco is absolute crap. In those them good olden days a player on the mark could do windmills and jumping jacks while standing on the mark. Now, that is untoward. Ahem.

[@Honkersification]

Bloody hell. The entire history?

[@benjaminrowley]

And as for the women’s league yes the talent is actually getting better but still needs to be improved also the grounds the women are made to play on are clearly to big for the girls yes they need to be smaller so then the quality is scoring and skill gets better and no this isn’t sexist it’s the truth everyone says it online

[@davidparris7167]

Analogous to lowering the basket for women's basketball players.

[@darceyrowse9297]

forgot to mention the part where the victorian bias is ruining the game and making it hard to watch outside vic

[@edwardbakadingo4261]

history of which teams joined when so limited but how do you fit 160+ years in a few minutes. So bizarre how he ends complaining about 1 recent rule change

[@chrmnlp4413]

The city with the canals is the Gold Coast in Queensland.

[@Sammy25100]

It's actually Albert Park in Melbourne. But the Gold Coast looks very similar.

[@chrmnlp4413]

The city at 9:43 is the Gold Coast. I can see my house. The city at the beginning with the river is Albert Park in Melbourne.

[@AngelaWalters-xr5wx]

Stop with comparisons between TOTALLY different football games. THIS IS PURELY AUSTRALIAN GAME

[@WaDarkPhoenix]

Don't listen to the "too many teams" muppets. Vocal minority that only ever belong to the bigger teams, and will never volunteer their own team up for closing down.

[@R0d_1984]

23:12 Yeah nah, more recent propaganda.

[@Ducatirati]

But last Q 1972 GF AWESOME AND I972 50 GOAL GAME I EVERY 2 MINS juz last Q

[@peterflynn2111]

There is no evidence to suggest marngrook had any influence on original melbourne rules .Suggest the author grab a copy of Australia s Game by Matthew Nicholson Bob Stewart Greg de Moore and Rob Hess will clear up quite a few inaccuracies

[@michaeltestro1643]

Womens footy it absolute crap but lwe gottal support ĺthe girls

[@brentdavis3102]

First Australian rugby league State of Origin was in 1980 although 3 year's after Aussie Rule's it continues to be a major success. Without a doubt the biggest sporting rivalry in Australia & if not the entire world of sports it's definitely in the top 3. Aussie rule's State of origin was a flop which always pailed in comparison.

[@macdac9861]

It wasn’t a flop it was huge. It just became unsustainable because there are more than just 2 states involved which would compromise the season. Also the AFL is a giant true national competition that draws massive crowds every week. It doesn’t need rep football to elevate it to be something relevant the way the small time micky mouse rugby competitions do

[@timrozitis961]

Lol @"AFL State of Origin was a flop." - that must be why people keep calling for a return. The problem was (at least) 2 fold - you needed to coordinate a mini-tournament between Vic, SA and WA (acknowledging they were ignoring talent from elsewhere) in the middle of a busy season; and clubs became concerned that they were at a disadvantage if their best players got injured during the State of Origin. In the 80s and 90s the VFL expanded to become the AFL, and there was also a view that with representation from each state, maybe the state of origin was moot. So yes, AFL State of Origin got wrapped up (after more than 20 years), but i definitely wasn't a flop. NRL's State of origin is a great rivalry for sue - and it's impressive how it has grown and survived (but I think the rules around players' "origin" is a lot looser and you can get players play for both sides at different times). Fundamentally, NRL Origin is simply a rivalry between QLD and NSW that is artificially forced on a football field (which unless I misunderstand the criteria seems to have lost too much concept of 'origin').

[@brentdavis3102]

@@macdac9861 NRL is the most watched sport in Australia. 2023. NRL =107.5 million AFL= roughly around 85 million

[@macdac9861]

@@brentdavis3102 there are so many different ways you can look at the numbers that I’m not going to bother looking into them to fact check you. But you have taken into account that the season is longer and the AFL has less free to air games haven’t you? You have double checked that you haven’t included state of origin and internationals haven’t you? Finally have you asked yourself why the AFL tv rights deal is worth so much more than the nrl’s if you’re numbers are a true reflection

[@brentdavis3102]

​@@timrozitis961 NRL State of origin is played mid season, much more brutal/chance of injury & has club team mate's wanting to smash each other. AFL state of origin was a flop,crowds where dismal & ratings where poor,Players showed no passion. That's why it got axed. If it was making money it would never of been axed but there was little interest.

[@benjaminrowley]

Yes nrl stole the state of origin idea from Aussie rules

[@B-tr9kz]

I think you mean perfected it

[@brentdavis3102]

Which went on to be the biggest sporting rivalry in Australia & could be considered the world's biggest sporting rivalry. Pure perfection

[@benjaminrowley]

@@brentdavis3102 the afl can make it even better tbh with all states involved if they wanted to I mean everyone wants it doesn’t need to be held half way through the season it can be held before the season starts

[@brentdavis3102]

@@benjaminrowley NRL State of Origin is one of if not the biggest rivalries in sports today. It's played mid season with a much greater risk of injury compared to any Aussie rule's game so don't make excuses. Fact is AFL tried State of origin & crowd's/ratings & passion from players involved where dismal. That's why it was axed.

[@brentdavis3102]

@@benjaminrowley NRL State of Origin play one of 3 game's in Perths Optus stadium(sell out)Adelaide's ACG(sell out)Melbourne's MCG over 80k attendance. None being rugby league state's but look at the attention it draws. AFL state of origin couldn't draw those numbers in any state let alone NSW or QLD.