l love your reaction to Aussie rules football. The game used to be more brutal 20 -30 years ago. lt's a cleaner game these days and the number 1 game down under.
Used to be a lot more brutal but since the 2000s lots of rules have been added to minimize injuries. In the old days, quite common to have a lot of guys bleeding during the game and they still play on. lol
Some of those guys have permanent neurological trauma, mate. LOL is probably not an appropriate choice of words. (Don't get me wrong, I used to love the big hits, but not if they were coming at the expense of players' long term brain function.)
Last week the sister of a Collingwood AFL player died after a head clash with another teammate while playing the sport. As far as I know it is the only fatality directly attributed to an AFL concussion. Head clashes are not as common now days but when you have several players going for the same ball at break neck speed collisions sometimes occur!
Just so you guys know, whenever a player is knocked to the ground after getting a significant hit to the head, they always get taken off to check for concussion. It's a rule now that a player HAS to come off the field for a check-over, and sometimes, if the doctors are really concerned, the player doesn't return for the rest of the game.
Dislocated my shoulder playing this sport at age 8 I didn’t realise and ended up playing the rest of the game till I said to my mum ‘my arm hurts’ at the end.
It’s great watching the great teams and players go from the pre-season fitness levels, to the fitness levels of the Grand Final in September. These guys are big, but they get even bigger and fitter during the year, and basically run flat out during each quarter attacking the ball. A great GF is truely a wonderful thing to watch.
So for clarification, @2:34, the team in the red and black have achieved nothing since and had a large percentage of their list banned for doping a few years later. However, the team in gold and brown went on to three-peat just a few years later. Go Hawks ;)
2:43 - no, it's not a part of the game. There are rules (despite all appearances) to the contact. Tackles must be between the knees and shoulders - neck, head or ankles are fouls ("free kick" in Aussie football terms). Hits using the body (called a 'hip-n-shoulder') must make contact with the same parts - the elbow/shoulder to the head is dirty play, and typically provokes that reaction from teammates.
That guy who was hit in the head that u were commenting on received a broken jaw. The person who hit him deliberately, was suspended for 10 weeks, he subsequently retired, like the coward he is.
The reason they fight after a big hit is because coaches drill into u a sense of team spirit at a young age and even in junior footy players always protect their team mates so if they get dropped like Sewell did then everyone goes after the bumper
2:40 ‘the line in the sand’ Essendon knocked Sewell out cold but hawthorn STILL got more fines and suspensions for standing up for him. Loyd is still my most hated player.
I was at that game that Loyd dropped Sewell. 77,000 people at the MCG and I missed seeing it. They didn't put a replay of the incident on the big screen as the Hawthorn supporters were going wild.
When a player goes down - its the medical staff (trained professionals) that attend him and thats why other players didnt help to a point and the fights starts when someone thinks the hit was wrong etc.
You know the dude that got knocked out in 1:02 (name is Jordan Lewis btw) and you said that he was done? Welp, no he wasn't. He actually came back in the 3rd quarter. No kidding. I am a Hawks fan (the team Lewis played for) and I remember this game/incident. It was super scary.
If an AFL player shows blood coming out, the 'blood rule' comes to effect which the field umpire blows whistle and halts time until the injured player is removed from play and to the interchange bench. It's been there since 1995 to prevent blood infection to other players such as HIV. Players with misconduct or deliberately injure another player, the umpire (field, boundary or goal) can report the player which leads to the AFL tribunal where players could be suspended from weeks from playing.
ThEmAdJaCkHaTtEr You have to be all around fit for AFL though, it’s 2 hours of constant sprinting and jumping. The field is 170 meters and you are running up and down no matter what position. AFL players can also kick 50 meters some really good players can kick 70-80
So this is how ruff the game can get as we lost one of the female players last week from a head injury my she RIP MARGARET Varcoe, sister of Collingwood star Travis Varcoe, has tragically died after sustaining a head injury while playing in a women’s grand final in an Adelaide Football League. Varcoe, playing for club Angle Vale, walked off the field after the devastating collision but later collapsed in the team’s dressing room. The 27-year-old was rushed to hospital immediately. She was in a coma at Royal Adelaide Hospital all week before news broke of her death on Thursday night.
Any of the hits that made contact with the head were illegal hits. When sports started cracking down on concussion the AFL decided a free kick (penalty pass) was no longer enough. Players now get either fined or suspended for any head contact (depending on level of contact and whether it is deemed intentional or incidental)
in nfl you lead with the head because of the helmet, in afl (australian rules football) to lead with the head is automatically most likely be a concussion
Because there are no helmets in the AFL players try their best to tackle safely and there are big penalties for making strong contact with the head. on many of these hits players were suspended for a few games. in NFL because of the helmet they actually use it in tackling and that is what causes most NFL concussions. also in NFL its legal to hit/tackle the head, not in AFL.
Not to mention the fact that because these kind of hits might only happen a few times in a career, the likelihood of genuine fuckery in the head is lower because your head isn't in a collision every few minutes
Hitting ur knee or anything into anyone's head is actually not allowed in AFL but it still happens a lot that's why there are fights that break out with some of those hits
If it helps, nearly all of them were fine after some time off and played for many more years. Of course it's still hard to watch them curl up like that though.
If only those across the globe gave our sport a chance, it could do wonders. A great alternative to roundball. Wanna run like hell, kick all day and tackle people in rage? Aussie Rules is the sport you need.
The game has been cleaned up a lot in the last 10yrs, especially head high hits and jumping in to ppl knees first. If u can, try finding a video about some of the biggest on field fights, then you’ll really see some outright violence. There’s a lot of cases arising now of serious mental damage & other brain injuries, from players who copped a lot of head high knocks. I believe there’s a lot of former grid iron players who have some of the same brain injury conditions as our footballers here?
3:06 all these hits are illegal and u get 1, 2, 3,+ week ban so they try not to do it but like umm who cares i was banned for giving a guy a 2 week kuncushion
aussie football is more like rugby, and less like American or canadian football. it's a fluent game, no pausing in this. also the athletes require a totally different type of physical form, the only position from american football i think might compare to what aussie football needs would be runningback. there's not much to compare about these sports exept maybe that both have a weirdly shaped ball and physical contact is common.
the funny thing is there reactions to the hits are so funny because for aussies thats nothing that happens all the time it even happens in my league i got knocked out a few times who cares its a dirty but fun and exciting sport
Just so you know after a hit they fight they don't go over to the player because they leave them to the trainers. It's never happened just letting you know.
Something you need to take away from this. A lot of these hits are intentional, for example kneeing someone in the head, intentionally is illegal. And any serious knock will go to tribunal. If proven guilty theirs usually very tough repercussions.
its funny being australian and watching people freak out hahah best game in the world!
Should we tell him we play this as kids?
I just love the constant he’s dead
l love your reaction to Aussie rules football. The game used to be more brutal 20 -30 years ago. lt's a cleaner game these days and the number 1 game down under.
Thanks for watchin' bro!
Peter Davies 80’s was brutal
Megan Keil Nah 70s it makes the footballers today look like big pussys
Ikr
99% of the time they get up after. Very few get stretched off
speed, good kick, physical strong this sport is the most complete sport in the world (i'm not aussie)
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Used to be a lot more brutal but since the 2000s lots of rules have been added to minimize injuries. In the old days, quite common to have a lot of guys bleeding during the game and they still play on. lol
Some of those guys have permanent neurological trauma, mate. LOL is probably not an appropriate choice of words. (Don't get me wrong, I used to love the big hits, but not if they were coming at the expense of players' long term brain function.)
Last week the sister of a Collingwood AFL player died after a head clash with another teammate while playing the sport. As far as I know it is the only fatality directly attributed to an AFL concussion. Head clashes are not as common now days but when you have several players going for the same ball at break neck speed collisions sometimes occur!
The 2017 AFL Season starts today, FINALLY!!!!
Let's go Carlton!
That didn't work out so well Slowpoke :D
Cal Ellis shut up...
lol don't worry mate, give it another 5 years, your team is way too young, Bolts even said it
go the mighty tigs
Just so you guys know, whenever a player is knocked to the ground after getting a significant hit to the head, they always get taken off to check for concussion. It's a rule now that a player HAS to come off the field for a check-over, and sometimes, if the doctors are really concerned, the player doesn't return for the rest of the game.
Dislocated my shoulder playing this sport at age 8 I didn’t realise and ended up playing the rest of the game till I said to my mum ‘my arm hurts’ at the end.
I’m an Australian and most to all of these hits are reportable hits and they fight to like stick up for there teammate .
It’s great watching the great teams and players go from the pre-season fitness levels, to the fitness levels of the Grand Final in September. These guys are big, but they get even bigger and fitter during the year, and basically run flat out during each quarter attacking the ball. A great GF is truely a wonderful thing to watch.
1:27 That's just Joel Selwood. He's always bleeding from somewhere. He'll be right
I love how ant is like " hey baby I wanna show you something" lol
hahahahaha Barry hill was a violent tank. We have tamed it down since then, but country rules is still just as rough.
Barry Hall
Heaps of West Coast Eagles shot,s Woo Hoo!
The west is ours!!
Thanks for the video. Football is really fun to watch. 💗
Just a normal Saturday afternoon game if football
Haha ,this is old footage!! Games got alot softer
So for clarification, @2:34, the team in the red and black have achieved nothing since and had a large percentage of their list banned for doping a few years later. However, the team in gold and brown went on to three-peat just a few years later. Go Hawks ;)
I love it when you go all stiff that's when you know you've pull all on the line.
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Michael Romanis nice picture 😉
Brodie Sayers Brother?
Michael Romanis ha
What console you on
Brodie Sayers PS4
"This is not for me"....
cracks me everytime
2:43 - no, it's not a part of the game. There are rules (despite all appearances) to the contact. Tackles must be between the knees and shoulders - neck, head or ankles are fouls ("free kick" in Aussie football terms). Hits using the body (called a 'hip-n-shoulder') must make contact with the same parts - the elbow/shoulder to the head is dirty play, and typically provokes that reaction from teammates.
That guy who was hit in the head that u were commenting on received a broken jaw. The person who hit him deliberately, was suspended for 10 weeks, he subsequently retired, like the coward he is.
Love the reaction beautiful being Australian love AFL
this is normal to us aussies haha
not a good weekend without a concussion haha
Come to Australia and come play a game 😆
The reason they fight after a big hit is because coaches drill into u a sense of team spirit at a young age and even in junior footy players always protect their team mates so if they get dropped like Sewell did then everyone goes after the bumper
1:56 greatest piece of commentary
2:40 ‘the line in the sand’ Essendon knocked Sewell out cold but hawthorn STILL got more fines and suspensions for standing up for him. Loyd is still my most hated player.
I was at that game that Loyd dropped Sewell. 77,000 people at the MCG and I missed seeing it. They didn't put a replay of the incident on the big screen as the Hawthorn supporters were going wild.
all these players who have been hit hard are still playing at a elite level now
React to afl here comes the boom
When a player goes down - its the medical staff (trained professionals) that attend him and thats why other players didnt help to a point and the fights starts when someone thinks the hit was wrong etc.
You know the dude that got knocked out in 1:02 (name is Jordan Lewis btw) and you said that he was done? Welp, no he wasn't. He actually came back in the 3rd quarter. No kidding. I am a Hawks fan (the team Lewis played for) and I remember this game/incident. It was super scary.
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Your damn right our National game is a man's game! This is how us skips roll... Till next time take care and keep safe hooroo from Down Under
2:08 that guy has one kidney and he lost it in a footy match 11 years ago
If an AFL player shows blood coming out, the 'blood rule' comes to effect which the field umpire blows whistle and halts time until the injured player is removed from play and to the interchange bench. It's been there since 1995 to prevent blood infection to other players such as HIV. Players with misconduct or deliberately injure another player, the umpire (field, boundary or goal) can report the player which leads to the AFL tribunal where players could be suspended from weeks from playing.
AFL, it's violent but it's a hell of a lot of fun!
3:22 - Leigh Adams getting hit - im just name dropping cause he's married to my cousin - have a great day
There are so many players there are at least 2 relatives to epic players in each town ahaha
American football is weak compared to what we do in Australia
West Coast Fishin nah mate, if the American football guys didnt wear armour, they'd die. Thus the armour.
Lies, in NFL you run forward. Afl you get hit from every direction
My ex played both codes. He said NFL hits were far more violent.
ThEmAdJaCkHaTtEr You have to be all around fit for AFL though, it’s 2 hours of constant sprinting and jumping. The field is 170 meters and you are running up and down no matter what position. AFL players can also kick 50 meters some really good players can kick 70-80
A Beautiful skillful friendly sport and yep it is competitive
they get up footy player are tough
Aussie rules. Greatest game in the world period.
So this is how ruff the game can get as we lost one of the female players last week from a head injury my she RIP MARGARET Varcoe, sister of Collingwood star Travis Varcoe, has tragically died after sustaining a head injury while playing in a women’s grand final in an Adelaide Football League.
Varcoe, playing for club Angle Vale, walked off the field after the devastating collision but later collapsed in the team’s dressing room. The 27-year-old was rushed to hospital immediately.
She was in a coma at Royal Adelaide Hospital all week before news broke of her death on Thursday night.
but those vids are recent tho
the black and white team is called the collingwood magpies and is my favourite team and i play afl and have been concussed
Any of the hits that made contact with the head were illegal hits. When sports started cracking down on concussion the AFL decided a free kick (penalty pass) was no longer enough. Players now get either fined or suspended for any head contact (depending on level of contact and whether it is deemed intentional or incidental)
Haha you guys are great...
Funny how us australians watch this for fun and play it for fun
less chance of brain damage in afl then nfl
REally? Why is that?
in nfl you lead with the head because of the helmet, in afl (australian rules football) to lead with the head is automatically most likely be a concussion
That makes no sense what so ever.
Because there are no helmets in the AFL players try their best to tackle safely and there are big penalties for making strong contact with the head. on many of these hits players were suspended for a few games. in NFL because of the helmet they actually use it in tackling and that is what causes most NFL concussions. also in NFL its legal to hit/tackle the head, not in AFL.
Not to mention the fact that because these kind of hits might only happen a few times in a career, the likelihood of genuine fuckery in the head is lower because your head isn't in a collision every few minutes
yeah baby
3:12 #4 jobe watson
Yes it's some mighty hard hits but make no mistake those boys are committed to the ball and nothing else....
Hitting ur knee or anything into anyone's head is actually not allowed in AFL but it still happens a lot that's why there are fights that break out with some of those hits
If it helps, nearly all of them were fine after some time off and played for many more years. Of course it's still hard to watch them curl up like that though.
its the way of life here in australia
If only those across the globe gave our sport a chance, it could do wonders. A great alternative to roundball.
Wanna run like hell, kick all day and tackle people in rage? Aussie Rules is the sport you need.
If all other countries did that, we'd lose to America.
The game has been cleaned up a lot in the last 10yrs, especially head high hits and jumping in to ppl knees first. If u can, try finding a video about some of the biggest on field fights, then you’ll really see some outright violence. There’s a lot of cases arising now of serious mental damage & other brain injuries, from players who copped a lot of head high knocks. I believe there’s a lot of former grid iron players who have some of the same brain injury conditions as our footballers here?
If a player is on the ground with arms up in the air he is out cold
Watch the UFC fight of the century lawler vs McDonald your wife will love that haha
That is what we call a bump
"Oh, he's done"
3:06 all these hits are illegal and u get 1, 2, 3,+ week ban so they try not to do it but like umm who cares i was banned for giving a guy a 2 week kuncushion
Kuncushion? Looks like those KOs you received might've had more of an effect than you thought...
aussie football is more like rugby, and less like American or canadian football. it's a fluent game, no pausing in this. also the athletes require a totally different type of physical form, the only position from american football i think might compare to what aussie football needs would be runningback. there's not much to compare about these sports exept maybe that both have a weirdly shaped ball and physical contact is common.
American Football is like playing chess compared to Australian Football. Aussie Footy is a real game.
Thankfully no kangaroos were injured in the makin of this vid.
Well, maybe a couple got sacrificed on a bbq..
the funny thing is there reactions to the hits are so funny because for aussies thats nothing that happens all the time it even happens in my league i got knocked out a few times who cares its a dirty but fun and exciting sport
there is a professional women's league too, AFLW
React to Gaelic Football videos
Yep 'the beauty of Gaelic Football' he should react to :)
These are old SAS troops haha
Maybe we should wear helmets and pads when we play Aussie Rules :)
Ha u should have seen when metal studs were legal everyone came home with legs cut
Only an Australian could have invented this. To much chaos for Britain or America.
Joel "duck for a free" Selwood!!!!!!!!!
Dallas Bryceson gtfo
Don't forget Joel "lift the arm so the tackle slips up to the shoulder" Selwood.
Hah. He doesn't duck, he's called a good, brave player that gets in for the ball
It’s hilarious seeing the reactions of Americans, especially when they want to know why we don’t wear pads or helmets.
Fun fact: no one ever has ever suffered serious injury or death in iAFL
What Neil Sachs in a wheel chair ! No serious injuries?
Thats Aussie Rules Love Footy
Great video, ✌️🙏✊This game was created by Aboriginal people of Australia first, than the Europeans Aussies took it and created Aussie rules..
Love Americans reactions to our great AFL game get on board America this is amazing game !!
Update: Women now playing Afl too. Search AFLW
Hay I play this at school
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Biggest AFL Fights
I think NFL players have concussion more than AFL players.
Now guys you have to back a team so I think you need to be WestCoat Eagles fans guys
Leave it to the lady. She is all the money.
AFL is a 360 game, stay aware or be asleep
There are a lot of illegal hits in that video. Looks like more of a knockout video rather that showing the fair and legal hits.
Sellwoooood my guy
Let the wife know their is also a woman's league. Where pretty tough in Australia and a bit crazy.
I love my footy
Next up *soccer's* "biggest" hits..
Ahha I'm only 15 6ft2 85kg and broken my arm twice but I have broken many peoples arms legs ribs fractured skull and ect
Just so you know after a hit they fight they don't go over to the player because they leave them to the trainers. It's never happened just letting you know.
He said “this is a mans game” there is a women’s league now
That was not a treat!! Lol
Plz react to Paul pogba best skills and goals
Jack Beatey stfu
Something you need to take away from this. A lot of these hits are intentional, for example kneeing someone in the head, intentionally is illegal. And any serious knock will go to tribunal. If proven guilty theirs usually very tough repercussions.