Gaelic Football - The Original Beautiful Game

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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2010

Gaelic football combines the suspense of soccer, the skills and scoring of basketball, and the speed of the fastest sports in the world in a free-flowing action-packed sport. It originated in Ireland centuries ago, but it's taking off in North America. Try it!

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  • Anyone know how much these athletes are paid? I would pay to watch this is USA

  • @spades70 $0. It's an amateur sport. Crowd attendances at the highest profile games look impressive, but the market isn't big enough to support professionalism.

  • it's weird seeing something that looks kinda like AFL but being played with a round ball, and in AFL when you catch the ball it's called a 'mark' do they call it that in Gaelic Football?

  • @Amunication There's no "mark" in Gaelic football in the sense of giving a free kick for a high catch. Some people have talked about introducing it, but it never came to anything for fear of slowing the game down with more interruptions. So a high catch is just called a high catch.

  • I don't know, not really convinced.

    btw, what's soccer =s

  • @BokkieUB Soccer is a globally-recognised term for Association Football. The term originated in England and is still in some use there.

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  • @PhillipRocks9 No, the AFL was established before the GAA. However, football was played in Ireland for 100s of years without a governing body before Europeans were even aware of Australia's existence. Maybe a spell learning the facts would do you well!

  • Well, at least he's calling it "Football".

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  • It looks a great game, but I can't help thinking, if that was soccer, they'd all get red cards!

  • Gaelic Football is easier than it looks and i was in a comp on friday and my team came 1st place sooooooo

  • Much longer

  • Just for people saying its like Aussie football, it's sort of is but Gaelic football and hurling have been around for longer

  • they dont get paid at all u see at 0:56 that guy who scored the goal works in the bank and

  • its so much fun

  • so its rugby, football, basketball and handball all together? seems legit

  • Wow

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