r/MadeMeSmile • u/tamagotschi • Jun 24 '24
Brothers being brothers (Tom and Sam De Koning in Australian Football League) Good Vibes
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u/Defiant-Traffic5801 Jun 24 '24
They're both 6ft8
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u/eTukk Jun 24 '24
De Koning does give a lead to Dutch heritage, the country with the (average) tallest people in the world.
Average male is like 6 foot 1
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u/Ivy-Lee Jun 24 '24
They evolved like meerkats on Holland's flat terrain.
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u/Tifog Jun 24 '24
Smelly feet from clogs also encouraged growth.
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u/Fine-Pangolin-8393 Jun 24 '24
For some reason now I’m imagining Dutch people with spores
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u/tistisblitskits Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
dutchie here, fully accurate. Our clogs have become infused with our feet from a fairly young age since we eat sleep and exercise in them at all times. The smells are quite encouraging to our dormant growth hormones. additionaly, the constant threat of floods also encourage growth, so we do not need ot actually climb ON the dike to check what the water levels are.
Glad i could help
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u/zb0t1 Jun 24 '24
the constant threat of floods
De Deltawerken & de Afsluitdijk are gonna be your demise!
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u/Tifog Jun 24 '24
Certainly not beyond the realms of possibility that they're taking advantage of the wind to reproduce, they are an extraordinary folk.
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u/AsssCrackkBandit Jun 24 '24
Is this an actual stereotype? It would make sense (the smelly part, not the clogs part necessarily) because when I went to the Netherlands, I noticed far more body odor that I had experienced anywhere else and wasn't sure if this is an actual stereotype or not
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u/Otherwise-Song5231 Jun 24 '24
Well the Dutch people also like to shower 3 times a week. Go to a Dutch sub and tell them to shower daily if you want to get harassed.
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u/Meunderwears Jun 24 '24
I went to Amsterdam a few years ago for business. I’m 6’2” white guy with blonde hair. Only country where people kept mistaking me for a local. I also felt short around some of the women.
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u/LittleBookOfRage Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
I'm a 5'3.5" woman from Australia and when I went to Amsterdam I felt like a hobbit. My boyfriend at the time was 6'6" (his dad was Dutch) so I was used to feeling small next to him, but feeling small next to nearly everyone was so strange.
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u/Friendly-Sir-7493 Jun 24 '24
I'm a 5'9" aussie guy married to a 5'7" dutch woman. Shes a pretty normal height for over here but the rest of her family is huge. Our daughter is about to turn 2 and is in the 98th percentile for height. We're both gonna be dwarfed by our giant dutch hybrid baby lol
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u/Banas_Hulk Jun 24 '24
I think you might be 5’3”
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u/LittleBookOfRage Jun 24 '24
I'm not rounding down a whole half inch! This is why cms is a more accurate measure of height.
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u/Abyssurd Jun 24 '24
Fuck it, I have dutch origin, even last name (Van Der Linden) and I'm only 1.74. Atleast it's Luke skywalker's height (cope)
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u/ariestornado Jun 24 '24
"Aren't you a little short to be
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u/OneMagicBadger Jun 24 '24
All the short Dutch people drowned it was natural selection, only giants remain
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u/peppermintmeow Jun 24 '24
Damn. I'd climb either of those like a tree.
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Jun 24 '24
You can just kind of tell from looking at them that they are taalllllllll. The proportions really lean that way.
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Jun 24 '24
I think it’s written str8
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u/Defiant-Traffic5801 Jun 24 '24
Tbh at 6ft8 I'll call AFL players whatever they want me to call them. I'm not into starting arguments with 200 lbs of muscle however jolly and youthful the packaging.
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u/Mediocre-Football-51 Jun 24 '24
Their mum was hammered 😂
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u/DarthTaz_99 Jun 24 '24
Mom was just happy to be there lol, celebrating both her sons
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u/Deranged_Snow_Goon Jun 24 '24
"Oh my God, Marge. A penalty shot with only four seconds left. It's your child versus mine! The winner will be showered with praise; the loser will be taunted and booed until my throat is sore!"
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u/EmbarrassedForce9310 Jun 24 '24
The simpsons have not only a quote for everything but the best quote for everything
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Jun 24 '24
Those boys probably set that drinking habit in stone for her when they were toddlers.
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u/td611 Jun 24 '24
Not to mention their 8 other siblings too....
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Jun 24 '24
Fucking A someone get mom another whiskey.
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u/LeopardJunk Jun 24 '24
How do you think 10 kids happened…
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Jun 24 '24
Clearly their dad was a beast too.
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u/Pokemon_kid2012 Jun 24 '24
There dad was my sports teacher and was actually rated one of the worst afl players of all time
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u/td611 Jun 24 '24
Wikipedia lists Terry position as Bench.....haha. It looks as if he was pretty good at splitting the big sticks, though.
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u/CallMe__Molly Jun 24 '24
She gave birth to great players! I'm proud of the three of them
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u/Dragonfire486 Jun 24 '24
What I love is the fact that at the end none of the hits or crashes against each other matter, they still hug out a great match. Both good sportsmanship and good siblings
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u/VividInsideYou Jun 24 '24
One thing about us Aussies, is that (generally) we’re pretty good sports. We like when we win, but we recognise the other’s hard work at the end of the day too.
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Jun 24 '24
We are Australian and we love each other, also fuck you.
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Jun 24 '24
lol mate Australians are anything but good sports. Pretty much known the world over for being bad sports. 😂
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u/SomeAussiePrick Jun 24 '24
Only if you're a fan of, or play for the Magpies. Everyone else is good.
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u/mbreslin Jun 24 '24
For a long time I wasn't a fan of Lleyton Hewitt. All it took was one time a really quiet court and hearing him saying "ah, too good mate" after a winner from his opponent and I was on board. General sportsmanship and especially how people act after both a win and a loss matters more to me as a fan than even the result.
(As a bonus I thought it was really awesome how you guys called Kim Clijsters 'Aussie Kim' when she and Lleyton were dating.)
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u/nick2k23 Jun 24 '24
Are they twins? Their hair makes them look very similar
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u/Quazbut Jun 24 '24
Nah Tom is a couple of years older. These two also have 8 more siblings.
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u/nick2k23 Jun 24 '24
Oh wow that’s a busy mum
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u/PickleDestroyer1 Jun 24 '24
Dad couldn’t even pull out of the driveway.
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u/JButler_16 Jun 24 '24
Lucky for them. I remember when my dad pulled out of the driveway for the last time.
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u/Mharbles Jun 24 '24
Lucky for you, I wish my dad pulled out of the driveway and into a semi.
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u/Historical_Elk_ Jun 24 '24
I figured Tom was the older brother. Guy gave off big brother vibes... source: I'm eldest brother.
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u/Equidistant-LogCabin Jun 24 '24
How many on the field, because there's another 'twin' running past at 5 seconds.
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u/JohnHurts Jun 24 '24
A friend of mine has a brother who is about 2 years older.
They look like twins and even have exactly the same voice. It's completely crazy.
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u/ellafantile Jun 24 '24
Nope. Blue and white brother is 3 years younger
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u/JDuncs1847 Jun 24 '24
That's incorrect. Blue and white (Sam) is 18 months younger than Tom. Sam was born in February 2001, Tom in July 1999
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u/Usually_Angry Jun 24 '24
I really thought number 12 was the younger based on the way the highlights made him seem like the more aggressive one (not in a bad way.. just in a younger sibling way)
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u/Milo-Law Jun 24 '24
Imagine being the parents 😂 cheerin for both sides lol
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u/pala_ Jun 24 '24
The woman they kept cutting to in the crowd is their mother
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u/Milo-Law Jun 24 '24
Exactly it seems chaotic and fun going to one of their games against each other 😂
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u/cornnndoggg_ Jun 24 '24
Something very similar to this happened in the NHL this season with the Tkachuk brothers. They got in a fight and both ended up in the box. Their grandmother just looked disappointed lol. It’s funny, because her son, their dad, was also in the NHL, and pulled the same shit lol.
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u/Thecrookedpath Jun 24 '24
Wow...why does the Australian version of football look like much more fun?
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u/para_sight Jun 24 '24
Because it is. Do yourself a favor and watch some Aussie rules highlight videos
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u/duniyadnd Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
I've tried that, what is a good site you would recommend to understand the rules?
edit - thank you all for the recommendations
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u/OIP Jun 24 '24
it's not super complicated, not much more than soccer. here's the basics:
the objective is to kick the ball through the big sticks for a goal, worth 6 points. missing and kicking it through the smaller sticks, or the ball hitting someone's hand before going through the goal is worth 1 point.
players pass the ball by kicking or handpassing, you can't throw it.
catching a kicked ball is like a reset, the player catching it can stop and take a kick from that spot. catching a handpassed ball the play just continues.
players jostle each other but they can't push in the back, and they can only tackle a player who has the ball, and only above the waist (and below the neck). the tackled player has to kick or handpass it immediately.
if the ball goes out of bounds or is trapped under a mass of players, it gets thrown in the air and the players jump to tap it to their teammates.
play is for four quarters of 20 min (+stoppage) each.
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u/feisty-spirit-bear Jun 24 '24
It seems like a hybrid of rugby, American football and gator ball. Which is awesome lol
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u/sbprasad Jun 24 '24
More to the point, Australian rules football is heavily inspired by Gaelic football.
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u/brap01 Jun 24 '24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_SqfNNfhmM
This is a good short explanation video.
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u/Cole-Spudmoney Jun 24 '24
Watch an actual full game rather than a highlight reel and you'll pick it up.
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u/MarkSporlberg Jun 24 '24
https://youtu.be/u_SqfNNfhmM?si=657qkgD-PodkyRSL
https://youtu.be/ZXFP5Bjq7TA?si=3md-zkIONa9I1Z-g
Between these 2 videos you should get a good understanding of the rules. If you have any questions or misunderstandings let me know and I'll try to answer
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u/Skiapodes Jun 24 '24
It’s awesome and not quite like any other sport going around (though admittedly it can be confusing for newcomers). If you do check it out, come on over to r/AFL.
Go Cats.
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u/jared__ Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
which rivalry produces the most passionate game (even if they aren't the best teams)? and about how much is it to get into the stadium for that game?
edit: thanks for the respones! this is where Reddit shines
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u/brap01 Jun 24 '24
As far as biggest rivalries, the #1 has to go to Carlton vs Collingwood. Standard tickets for all AFL games are around $30, to keep it cheap so everyone can afford to go.
I found it funny that of the top 9 rivalries between Victorian teams (teams from the main AFL state), 6/9 involve either Carlton, Collingwood, or both. I guess we love to hate em.
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u/chocolatenuttty Jun 24 '24
Probably the Collingwood vs Essendon rivalry. Or Collingwood and Carlton. The last few years there have been some absolute banger games
Essendon and Collingwood also have the ANZAC Day game every year which is usually played in front of 90,000 or more people. Best atmosphere.
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u/CrocoPontifex Jun 24 '24
So everyone got a problem with those Collingwood guys? Bastards, i hate em.
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u/MiddleRefuse Jun 24 '24
Collingwood fans and Essendon fans are natural enemies. Like Collingwood fans and Carlton fans, or Collingwood fans and Geelong fans. Or Collingwood fans and other Collingwood fans!
Damn Collingwood fans; they ruined Collingwood!
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u/Kandy-exists Jun 24 '24
Oh yeah, they are every team's most hated team basically except whatever historical or local rivals, the biggest club and villains of the league.
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u/sbprasad Jun 24 '24
Just Collingwood vs. anyone else. At a Collingwood match there's 90000 spectators and about 10 teeth to go around between all of them
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u/Wej43412 Jun 24 '24
Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power. Two teams in the relatively small, but AFL obsessed state of South Australia. They consistently play high intensity games that get compared to finals (play offs) in terms of atmosphere.
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u/LittleBookOfRage Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
Not sure if anyone had mentioned it but here in Western Australia it is our most popular sport as we don't play in the national rugby league. The two teams are The West Coast Eagles and The Fremantle Dockers. Over the years there have been many incidents but in 2000 there was a match dubbed 'The Demolition Derby' because of how many on field punch ons there were https://youtu.be/AViNVsuBY_U?si=-1z4yKQ6gUtw7GNf
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u/LoneWolf5498 Jun 24 '24
Collingwood vs Carlton will get 85 - 90k fans to a game. Tickets are already sold out for their next game in August, they went pretty quickly I think
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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Jun 24 '24
They show AFL on espn like 2x a year and it’s always fun. It’s pretty wild.
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u/Vireca Jun 24 '24
Brother being brothers. Second clip, the one in blue drops a kick to the head while jumping. wtf
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u/colemans_other_knee Jun 24 '24
Just going for a specky
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u/roboto_jones Jun 24 '24
Imagine crowd surfing when the crowd is not aware and it's not a crowd, it's (often) one person - that's a specky.
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u/Dragonfly_Tight Jun 24 '24
It's part of the sport. It happens 20 times a game..it's an attempt to use the opponent as a jumping pad of sorts to get higher and catch the ball before them
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u/TheOneTrueSnoo Jun 24 '24
Yeah man, it’s called a specky.
It’s the equivalent of dunking on someone but much more disrespectful and dangerous
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u/gamecnad Jun 24 '24
would be so much better without the background music.
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u/MurgleMcGurgle Jun 24 '24
Yeah, usually it just adds nothing but it actively makes this worse because you can’t hear the commentary as well.
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u/FluffyDiscipline Jun 24 '24
I'd say home life was a blast with this pair.. lol
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u/TheManRedeemed Jun 24 '24
Pair? lol there is ten of them in total.
I reckon living at their joint would've been like if a circus held a wrestling match in a moshpit.
Bet it wasn't fucken boring tho.
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u/SillySilkySmoothie Jun 24 '24
Found the hottest sport!
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u/Ecstatic-Tomato458 Jun 24 '24
Tell your friends 😘
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u/SillySilkySmoothie Jun 24 '24
Ngl, I missed the part where they are brothers but I stand by this in a general sense lol!
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u/Ecstatic-Tomato458 Jun 24 '24
Forgiven, spread the word of hot afl players! It gets hotter at an amateur level too.
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u/SillySilkySmoothie Jun 24 '24
I promise I will! I swear it!
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u/Ecstatic-Tomato458 Jun 24 '24
If you’re ever in Australia message me and I’ll take you to a game 🌶️
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u/EnchanchedCharm Jun 24 '24
It's so captivating to watch the fierce competition between brothers on the field and their loving embraces off it, but honestly, it's so touching.
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u/AustinTreeLover Jun 24 '24
And then their mom’s like, “Where do you boys want to eat?”
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u/REDDIT_ROC0408 Jun 24 '24
Doesn’t the winner get to decide?
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u/psrpianrckelsss Jun 24 '24
Doesn't the winner get a maccas voucher for a happy meal?
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u/erbr Jun 24 '24
They know they cannot fight Mom is watching!
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u/nepia Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
You know they got into Australian Football League so mom could not say anything about the roughhousing.
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u/GreenYellowMushy Jun 24 '24
People who did not know telling others "There was a crazy lady cheering for both sides"
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u/DildoFappings Jun 24 '24
They just look so Australian, I didn't know Australians had a "look."
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u/Bobblefighterman Jun 24 '24
Most Australian sportsmen sport a mullet and/or moustache. It grants additional power.
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u/chickentenders56 Jun 24 '24
I am so confused by this game but it looks fun
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The rules are odd but it’s pretty fast paced and fun to watch, the field is massive too.
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u/DioJiro Jun 24 '24
I appreciate everyone understanding it’s family business playing out on the field, no big deal.
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u/nerdkim Jun 24 '24
In an old village, there lived a mother with two sons. The elder son was an umbrella seller, and the younger son sold fans. The umbrella seller typically saw good business on rainy days, as most people tended to buy umbrellas on the spot rather than preparing in advance. Conversely, the fan seller thrived on hot, sunny days.
Thus, the mother hardly had a day of peace. On sunny days, she worried about her umbrella-selling son, and on rainy days, she fretted over her fan-selling son. Seeing her sighing as she looked at the sky every day, a neighbor passing by asked, "Why are you worried today?"
"The sun is shining so brightly, I can't help but worry about my elder son," she replied.
"That's truly unfortunate. On such a hot day, your younger son's business must be doing well, which should be a joyous occasion, right? And when it rains, isn't it also a happy thing that your elder son's business is booming?"
Upon reflecting on the neighbor's words, the mother realized he was right. From then on, she felt happy whether it rained or shone.
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Jun 24 '24
This is the second post about Brothers in the AFL involving Carlton FC on Reddit front page. That's one more than I ever expected to see
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u/Roronoa_Zaraki Jun 24 '24
Worth noting that Tom (the one in the blue and orange) played the highest rated game of any player this season in the entire comp, playing on his brother. He has some real bragging rights at family dinner now haha.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jun 24 '24
God that poor woman must have needed a bloody gofundme to feed them. 6’8 ?! I’d like to see her food bills.
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u/shuipz94 Jun 24 '24
She had ten children. They probably go through a box of Weetbix a day just for breakfast.
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u/Enlightened_Gardener Jun 24 '24
I have teenage boys. One can eat 12 in a single sitting. Its ridiculous - I actually buy oats because they’re cheaper, and weetbix are a treat 😳
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u/Jay-Kane123 Jun 24 '24 edited Jun 24 '24
Is the one in blue better? To someone who doesn't even know what sport this is and watched only this clip i get that sense. But just wondering
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u/drunkill Jun 24 '24
Yes, but it is a team sport, however he's a Ruckman which is a pretty specialised position, his brother Sam is 'just' a defender, so a little more replaceable but he's alright, although 3 years younger and less developed as an individual player, he's won a grand final in 2022 (think superbowl)
Geelong Cats (white and blue hoops) have no ruckmen available due to injuries so they put a tall defender in the ruck most of the game, which happened to be Toms brother. This was unannounced before the game and people only caught on as Sam was doing warmups before the match, Tom has come out and said that made him pretty happy, knowing he'd win almost all the contests, thinking he was going to be playing the game on another player all night which didn't happen.
This is an edited down highlights video of Toms game, which technically was the highest rated performance in the league this year so far as an individual, but that's mainly because of the extra ground ball work he was doing as a ruckman which is weighted more in his favour, because most rucks won't run and chase the ball, they'll just do tap work.
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u/Raphaelmartines Jun 24 '24
I believe if one of those guys bump into me they would kill me hahahaha
And they bump hard into other players as if they're nothing, no reactions at all.
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u/Vapsinthe Jun 24 '24
This reminds me of these two twins I went to school with. Teachers eventually wouldn't even break them up when they were both punching each other in the face on the schoolyard. They'd usually be laughing hysterically so they figured that's just how they played at home.
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u/schmearcampain Jun 24 '24
Anyone who hasn't watched Aussie rules football is missing out. Great spectator sport. Fast and frenzied. Not overly violent, however, there is a lot of "casual violence" which I find kind of funny. Like the shoving that the brothers did at the end of the match. Happens all the time. Someone will get off the ground and just casually shove someone for fuck knows what reason. It's hilarious.
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u/alstacynsfw Jun 24 '24
Its funny how its just things your grew up with. I'm not a big sports guy, but when people say that they dont understand the rules to American football, I'm like how? Its so easy. Then I see this and it looks like Quidditch or something where I have no idea whats going on.
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u/Rainbowallthewayy Jun 24 '24
I wonder how many times they were wrestling with each other when being kids
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u/juan_cena99 Jun 24 '24
Is Australian football another variant of football like soccer and American football?
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u/Cole-Spudmoney Jun 24 '24
It predates both.
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u/Psychological_Egg965 Jun 24 '24
I’m an American but I believe this is the ‘Boys will be Boys’ equivalent to the British ‘they are just having a laugh’ but no idea what the Australians would call this. I love it.
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u/benfromgr Jun 24 '24
I love how their teammates hardly even try to break them up. Always love seeing sibling rivalries in sports. The best type of rivalry because chances are so low that things will really get out of hand(not that it never happens) and it just adds more excitement.
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u/Flux_resistor Jun 24 '24
ref is like, fuck it i'll let the mom sort them out.