A Texan in the Australian Football grand final

[Neilster]

If anyone's interested, the Australian Football grand final is on in about 60 minutes. 6'11" Texan Mason Cox is playing in front of 100,000 crazy fans after completely dominating last week. He's a former college basketballer who had never heard of the sport until four years ago. It's a great story and he seems to be a really good bloke. The fans, and I mean from all teams, love him. This is from last week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDVQKQnYoU

Cheers, Neilster

[Neilster]

That's his parents at 0:55...loving it

Cheers, Neilster

[Neilster]

It's a fun spectacle, with unfortunately less violence than when I played; although there's still a reasonable amount of violence. If you can make any sense of this, you can watch it...probably on channel 937 Community Access...or something

http://www.afl.com.au/tv-radio/internat ... t-partners

Cheers, Neilster

[Zap]

in the US we use the word "contact" to describe the interaction I think it better fits both sports.

[Neilster]

It was a good, close game but Mason Cox's team lost and he didn't play very well. Sport is a harsh mistress [:-]

Cheers, Neilster

[Fenndon]

Great game, go the Eagles!

[JamesM]

The best thing was that Collingwood lost!

[Pvt_Grunt]

A good close match. Second quarter was slow but a nail biter at the end.

[goodwoodrw]

Funny supporters Collingwood dudes, I'm a Richmond supporter and last weekend I got a call from a former business associate, a Collingwood supporter who I haven't spoken to for over a year, funny I haven't heard from her this weekend.[:D] Silence is golden!! [:D][:D][:D]