Y’know, if all these guys had just come to this site and learned a little history, none of this would have happened.
Two Australian Navy sailors jailed in California for a vicious fight with an American man about the merits of Aussie rules football will learn today if US prosecutors will pursue serious assault charges against them.
Philip Graeme Ferres, 26, and Kolis Barba, 24, have been locked up in San Diego’s Central Jail since their arrest in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Police accuse them of hitting and kicking their alleged victim, breaking his eye socket, after an argument flared at a party about Australian rules football and America’s gridiron.
The alleged victim, a 28-year-old San Diego man, was a fan of gridiron while the Australians were talking up the virtues of AFL, which led to the fight, police said.
C’mon, guys, it’s the 21st century. Can’t you just come to some sort of agreement that soccer is a girl’s game and enjoy your beers together? Really.
(Thanks, Simon!)
4 responses so far ↓
1 a different dave // Nov 28, 2007 at 11:27 am
Ah yes aussie rules and gridiron fans doing what comes naturally. Thanks for making us soccer thugs look better by comparison, guys!
2 Tim H // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:22 pm
how can one win that argument anyway. They are two very different games. I can enjoy a game of gridiron if I could get it more on TV but most of my friends can’t stand the stop start nature of it.
Don’t argue, enjoy every code of footy, gives you more options.
except Soccer, you’re right Dave
3 Dave // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:35 pm
And I enjoy that one, too, so there you go.
4 a different Dave // Nov 28, 2007 at 8:46 pm
See, I think this is really an Aussie problem. The Aussies just got confused and thought they were attacking a rugby league fan. Easy mistake for an aussie rules fan to make.