A guide to watching AFL

AFL (Australian Football League) football is the national sport in this part of Australia.
This blog entry teaches you how to go about enjoying the game

Step 1:
Choose a local match and get a ticket
This match is between Fremantle (home ground) and Geelong (somewhere near Melbourne) teams.


Step 2:
Find the stadium
This particular match was held at Subiaco Oval (aka Patersons Stadium).


Step 3:
Choose a team to support/bet. (Else, there will be no fun watching.)
My guess is that there will be more supporters for Fremantle, since the match is held in their home ground. I just went with the majority. haha


Step 4:
Dress up to support your team!
Their color is purple, so i tried to wear as much purple as possible.


Step 5:
Take photo and cheer with fellow supporters
This guy(somewhat drunk) painted his face purple!
(dunno why, the purple color turned out blue from my camera)



Step 6:
Grab some FOOTY FOOD to eat.
In Australia, "footy" is the slang for"football". So, footy food is the food you buy from the counter to eat during the match.
Sandwich with chicken breast meat and mayonnaise


Step 7:
Find your seat
and wait for the game to start
Obviously, the cheapest ticket will entitle you the furthest seat. We got the very last row at the back. LOL



The australian football is different from soccer. Rules can be found here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Australian_football)

Here are some clips I took during the show


Fremantle team misses a free-kick:




Geelong team scores a goal, but sadly, not many supporters around.




Fremantle team scores a goal and the whole stadium rocked! See the difference between this and the previous video?
I bet 90% of the spectators were their supporters


Despite all the support and cheering, Fremantle team still lost 78 - 89