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  • @ghost491 Australia's got the best sport ever and you haven't even heard of it... moron

  • He used to play Australian Rules Football (or AFL) and his long bombs inspired him to go to the NFL

  • why was the second only 64yards if he kicked it to their 25yard line? = 75yards no?

    I guess I don't know what im talking about?

  • @shanedungey they count the distance of the punt from the line of scrimmage, not where he kicked the ball..

    so he did punt it 75 yards but he was -11 yards from where they snapped the ball, so it ends up being called a 64 yard punt.

  • @bishshred ah i c. thanks

  • @shanedungey no prob man

  • @ghost491 Saverio Giovanni Rocca NOT Saverio Reginald Rocca, Saverio's nationality is Italian /Australian his parents migrated from Italy not Austria, there's is 3 types of football in Australia. Rugby which is called NRL or UNION. Soccer which we Australian call it soccer just like you Americans do but to the rest of the world it's called football. And AFL which is called Aussie rules, AFL, or football 3 totally different sports.

  • @x23JORDAN45x there are 4 codes of football in Australia. AFL, Soccer, League, Union. League and Union are completely different games. Union is called Rugby and League is called Rugby league.

  • @ghost491 Saverio Giovanni Rocca NOT Saverio Reginald Rocca, Saverio's nationality is Italian/Australian his parents migrated from italy not Austria. There's is 3 types of football in Australia, rugby which is l

  • @ghost491 I had a good laugh at your comments, please do a google and YouTube search on sav rocca and show me please when he played soccer in Austria.. All I see is sav rocca playing afl as his former game, he punts in afl that's how he got the job in NFL

  • When he is on, he is maybe top 3 in the league, but he was inconsistent in 09. I hope he steps it up and get back to that form. Bobby April will have him right though, he's the best special teams coach in the league.

  • He is the 13th highest goal kicker in vfl afl history.

    Above Wayne Carey on the list. Sure he wasn't greatest ever but he was a star.

  • He most definitely was NOT one of the greatest goal kickers in Aussie rules history. He could just kick it a long way

  • @willmcc DUDE You obviously know nothing about AFL! Why dont you go google his stats then come back and make the same comment!!

  • @MetalValve23 I'll cop that. Didn't realise he managed to put away almost 750

  • lol @ the idiots fighting. good to see rocca doing well over seas

  • Love having this guy play for my Eagles baby!! Can't believe a soccer player from Australia would be a good punter. Crazy Aussies I tell ya, I heard he was a striker back home, he probably took corners and penalties and stuff.

  • @ghost491 he was an afl player not soccer afl contact sport huge in australia

  • @nachospole1 , no I'm pretty sure he played soccer, they just call it football in Austria and the rest of Europe. I'm an Eagles man, I'd know, LOL, but thanks anyway. I bet he took a lot of the penalties and free kicks because of how strong his kicking power is!

  • @ghost491 i live in australia and support the team he finished his afl carrer of with which was the north melbourne kangaroos he also played with his brother anthony at collingwood

  • @nachospole1 , I don't know what a carrer is, but he played for the Collingwood Soccer Club. My buddy Jack talks with people from the Eagles all the time, and he just confirmed it for me. I think we just misunderstand each other. You Australians call soccer 'football', whereas we have REAL football where there is contact. I think there's just a misunderstanding in the language, put a shrimp on the barbie mate :)

  • @ghost491 a carrer is the time he spent playing professinal football he didnt play soccer i know what soccer is the world cup is in south africa. u can search sav rocca playing afl and u will find video and more im huge afl fan and he played for north melbourne and the collingwood football club which is afl not soccer

  • @nachospole1 , I apologise for the language barrier as I'm aware Australians don't speak english as a first language, but what is a 'carrer'? I've tried google and an Australian to American dictionary with no luck! Further, I know not of this wekepidea you speak of. If you're mistaken about the existence of such words, perhaps you are mistaken as to whether or not he played soccer? As an Eagles fan I can safely attest to the fact he is a great soccer/football player no matter what you call it

  • @ghost491 are u taking the piss english is australias first language we are colonised by the british ur account says ur from australia and it's Wikipedia i didnt spell it right u just type in sav rocca and a wiki search should come up on google there is footage of him playong afl on youtube

  • @nachospole1 - I'm 95% sure the native language in Australian is Koori, or some derivative of the indigenous population that was there before your ancestors brutally murdered them. I wasn't aware they converted to english and got the internet. My apologies. It also appears Rocca did indeed play AFL as well as soccer in Australia, so it seems we were both right! As a peace offering, I present some land I have declared terra nullius for you to enjoy and pillage, as well as a dictionary

  • @ghost491 my ancestores didnt murder them my mother is from wales and on my dads side my great grandfather was scotish and there are many different aboriginal languages not 1 also the aborignals came here from indonesia so u can techniclay say they are not natives and there is no need to be a smart ass because of the shit that happened in the passed the aboriginals have all the equal rights of everyone else in the country and they make up less the 5 % and of that less are full aboriginal

  • @nachospole1 your rebuttal on indigenous Australians, whilst done with horrible grammar and spelling, is amazingly a million times better than your multiple efforts at convincing me Sav played AFL. I sense I stumbled onto a sore issue. I'm tired of responding here, so let's just all agree Rocca played AFL and soccer, and that Australian's demonstrated hundreds of years of systematic racial torture to the aboriginals which still has substantial remnants and discriminants in modern society?

  • @ghost491 lets not because he never played soccer and the fact is that shit happened in the past that wasnt nice both to the aboriginals and the convicts who where brought here. the fact is australia would of been colonised by europeans but they way it happened was shit and it should of been done differently but u cant change the past and you cant put it on the people of today as they are not responsable

  • @ghost491 Who is this clown who thinks he knows everything about Australia and didn't even realise that Sav played footy and not soccer, and also didn't even recognise that AFL is a contact sport?

  • @dougietherichmondfan - It's only a contact sport when the player's bump shinguards into one one another and then feign injury for hours. Saverio was a booming goal kicker in Austrian soccer, which is when the ball goes out of play past the goal line, he kicks it back in: a 'goal kick'. I think if NFL ever moves to Europe, he might try to find a team in Vienna and play in front of his home fans once again. I am not a clown however; that comment confuses and arouses me.

  • @ghost491 haha, you surely arn't being genuine when you say he was a soccer player that played in Austria right??? I mean its a little funny, but pretty insulting to Sav.

  • @dougietherichmondfan - As I have elucidated above; the facts (and not to mention, by friend) show us that Saverio Reginald Rocca played football (or soccer, as I call it; which may have confused you) in Austria, prior to moving to USA. It doesn't matter really. All I ever intended to do was to compliment the man's ability to kick two completely differently shaped balls. I doubt he would be insulted; rather, it would be a polar opposite.

  • @ghost491 You are kidding when you say he played soccer right? Last I checked Sav Rocca played Aussie rules football (which is never referred to as soccer) for collingwood and then later for north melbourne. The balls are actually similarly shaped too, (both oval shaped) but you are right he is an amazing kicker of any football.

  • @WithinTheCoil87 - Perhaps you should check again.. The confusion comes from the fact that soccer is called football in Austria. It is a common misunderstanding. Rocca is one of four Austrian soccer players to play in the NFL in 2010 and I think that diversity is great.

  • @ghost491 HE'S NOT AUSTRIAN HE'S AUSTRALIAN! There is a difference.He played Aust-ra-li-an rules football. type that into the YT search engine and see the difference in the sports yourself. He is Australian from Victoria. He played for two seperate Aussie rules clubs before retiring and moving to the US. I'm an Aussie myself and he played part of his career in the the team I support, trust me I know my Aussie football.

  • @WithinTheCoil87 - I think I would know. Rocca plays for my team. I think you have confused yourself because Austria and Australia sound alike. In Australia they call it rugby, and in Austria it is soccer, but you call it football. It's just a misunderstanding. Let's just agree that he's one of the great Austrian strikers and that you should be proud of him! :) Peace be with you

  • @ghost491 oh wow you're thick. I give up ay. All I can is that I'm right you're wrong and if you need any more proof he has his own wikipedia page. Go and look him up and see how wrong you are.

  • @WithinTheCoil87 - My pre-school teacher taught me not to use wikipedia as a source. You know anyone can edit it, right? I think you've been hoodwinked.. My source is NFL.com which states that he was born in Austria and played soccer for the Vienna Magpies as a striker. Check-"mate"

  • @ghost491 Maybe you should get a clue from the amount of people calling you an idiot for thinking he's from Austria. All these people know what they're talking about and you are the only one who is wrong. It's sad that the official website for the NFL can't even get the origins of one of their own players right. I've watched another sav NFL vid where the commentators actually state that he is from Australia and played AFL. check mate game fucking over!

  • @WithinTheCoil87 - 'As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.’

    — James M. Barrie

    Apart from missing my many great puns, you are also missing a very important message in life: do not form an opinion based on what others tell you. Form an opinion based on what I tell you... I just ran into Saverio Reginald Rocca in the streets here in Philly and he admitted that he's from Austria.

  • @ghost491 OK you've been defending your "he's from Austria" comment for the last 6 months. I think it's time for you to do some proper research and then come back and apologise for being a dumbshit and wasting everyone's time. Goodbye, Good luck and have a pleasant xmas and new year.

    PS: Stealing a quote from some random dude that noone's heard of, will not make me believe you're right, mostly because I know I'M RIGHT!

  • @ghost491 hey mate it's not Austria it's AUSTRALIA. haven't you heard of AFL

  • @CoryPatto1995 Nar, they're the same country bro. I have heard of the Austrian Football League. I don't understand your point though..

  • @ghost491 if u wekepidea sav rocca u will find out that he played afl which is contact sport u can also find vids of him playing afl on youtube and if anything soccer is real football aswell as afl where u kick the ball rather the throw it like in nfl we also dont say put a shrimp on the barbie thats a stereotype

  • @ghost491 hahahaha your funny. australian and i cant believe how many australians you pissed off!!! and i thought americans were stupid..

  • Rocca was an absolute legend for Collingwood I was shattered when we got rid of him. Good to see him still going strong.

  • lol they say he is one of the greatest goalkickers of all time in the AFL....hardly

  • he did kick 748 goals...

  • 13th highest goalkicker ever

    In between Steven Kernahan and "Hungry" Bartlett

  • @Magnitude101

    he's up there mate. Definately one of the better of his generation. BTW I'm a bombers man.

  • I'm so glad they've stopped calling him Roka instead of Rocca! He must have said something.

  • punters are boring and they aren't real football players

  • His foot touches the ball more than any other player in the team, & you say he isn't a football player?

    LOL!

  • HAHAAHAHA man thats owned

  • lol owned

  • come back to collingwood you were da bomb

  • kangas mate kangas!

  • yeah go the roos

  • He was a great player like his brother in AFL but i wouldn't say one of the greatest in the history. He's inconsistent just like Anthony Rocca when kicking goals. It's great that he's doing well in the NFL though.

  • Bah, big Sav was great, if we had him in the team we have now he would dominate. Anthony was good for the first couple of years, then it was all down hill.

  • good on ya sav. though its funny he was described as one of the 'greatest goal kickers of all time' in australia - i mean statistically as he is in the top 20 of all-time but he just never seemed THAT great.haha

  • He was Collingwoods "GUY" at the forward line for a good 6 years or so and at one stage their only source so he was kicking 90 goals a year constantly. I never liked him but he was statistically a good player..

  • He was definitely the MVP of this game. Rocca forced Pittsburgh to start 3 of their last 5 drives inside the 10, one of which resulted in a safety. No way on Earth can you drive 95 yards on the Eagles defense.

  • you can. the eagles suck, go cowboys! but rocca is a beast punter tho, so he gets some props. but eagles as a whole can suck it

  • i thik sav rocca  is good but hes a little inconsistant

  • i think sav rocca is argueably the best punter in the NFL right now. this is coming from a giants fan

  • and Ben Graham and Mat McBriar.

  • Good to know he's making a name for himself...I just found an article where Philidelphia coach Andy Reid said Roccas punts were "Unbelievable", and "You don't very often talk about a punter being a weapon, but he sure was a weapon tonight."

    Eagles CB Sheldon Brown also said Sav Rocca "won the game" for them in this 15-6 victory against the Steelers.

  • Awesome. Thanks for posting. Been trying to find footage of Savs NFL games.

    I saw a clip of him tackling a punt returner just before...and you can just tell that he is just hanging out for a chance to knock someone on their arse =P Lol.

  • Sharing my thanks as well for the video. Obligatory for an Aussie to support another Aussie.

  • thanks for posting. I'm a huge fan of Rocca. Aussie legend !

  • Yeah thanks heaps for posting. Would like to see highlights of Sav's kicking from every game :) Also Sav Rocca was named NFL special-teams Player-of-the-Month for September, 2008 as well!

  • yeah that dude can kick

  • Could always been doing that and They say his little Brother Anthony Rocca is a Better Kick

  • No, Anthony Rocca is the worst ever player to play 200 games.

  • anthony rocca is a joke mate overated player nathan buckley had a good kick....... quinton lynch for the westcoast eagles eagles i seen him roost a 90m kick at subiaco oval he would be good for NFL....... stuart dew use to have a left bomb too very good kick

  • Thanks for posting - a lot of Sav's in Aust fans happy to see him do well. A genuine nice guy.

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