As to the article itself, you could find similar articles from that period and earlier in the American press extolling rugby and soccer; what does that prove? I also wonder if the aussie rules game has changed radically, or did the writer actually see it played? “Presents almost as many dribbling chances as the association game (soccer)”??? Really, since when? How? You wanna demonstrate soccer dribbling with that there egg ball, pal?

Aussie rules fans do seem a bit more arrogant than rugby league fans, though. They assume that their game has a “right” to dominate Australia, and one of the posters linked above called people who like soccer, in essence, “globalists” who were anti-American and anti-Australian, whereas American gridiron fans and Australian aussie rules fans were true patriots.

Yeah, f_ck you too, pal. Have a nice day.

And they are making these bigoted, xenophobic, patriotard comments on the same thread where they are arguing about how aussie rules should become the world game and how they should do everything they can to spread it to places like India where other codes of football aren’t dominant yet!

Irony is obviously lost on them. If you want your game to be a global game, stop acting like a bunch of backwoodsmen.