The Passion to Play - Australian Football (AFL)

A glimpse at the ultra inspiring Australian Football documentary written and directed by the late Rob Dickson. The documentary gives an insight into the roller coaster ride of playing Australian Football at the highest level featuring more than 180 players past and present. This video shows the excitement and joy of playing your first game and fulfilling your boyhood dream of making the big time. It gets the hair standing up on the back of your neck and makes you think how lucky we are to have our great game.

Buy the DVD - http://sportsdelivered.com/product.php?productid=62&cat=0&page=1

Discuss the DVD - http://www.aflonline.com.au/forums/index.php?showtopic=315

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• AFL
• Australian
• Rules
• Football
• Footy
• Passion to Play
• Aussie
• Documentary
• Rob Dickson
• Players
• Des Headland
• SCG
• Brisbane Lions
• Dick Reynolds
• Liam Pickering
• Tarkyn Lockyer
• Paul Roos
• Hawthorn
• Ben Dixon
• Chris Connolly
• Peter Schwab
• Ian Cooper
• Charlie Sutton
• Bob Skilton
• Luke McCabe
• Australian Football
• Aussie Rules

[alehkszahnen]

@Gaffhart77 you're american and love aussie rules? respect dude!

[raisin212k]

ESPN upped the coverage for us here in the US this year... we don't even know what to do about all these games... we have no idea who's who... so we started following one game after the other to see what we could figure out. We ended up watching 3 games back to back. These boys are tuff and this game is contagious... I got all my friends watching it. Funny to see them trip out on it :)

[VictorYong36]

I love AFL and I am following a bit of NFL too...Go West Coast Eagles and Green Bay Packers!!

[thegreig]

@AKgooner92 NO your wrong... again. It's proper name is Association Football, Soccer is a play on the word association originating from England (not the USA). Like all football codes which ever is the most popular in that country takes the name football USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, PNG, South Africa, Ireland and the Australasian islands all refer to it as Soccer Europe and Asia call it Football because it is the dominant code in there parts.

[AKgooner92]

@thegreig I don't understand why u keep calling it Soccer the REAL name for the game is FOOTBALL. Don't embarrass yourself by calling it soccer the rest of the world laugh at the Americans cause they call it soccer.

[thegreig]

@AKgooner92 P2 two sets of rules were written the first one was called Rugby Rules Football (Union, League) and the second Association Football (Soccer). That's why we have Aussie Rules football because it was our set of rules for our version of football (same as America with gridiron) That's why all the sports I mentioned refer to themselves as football.

[thegreig]

@AKgooner92 Aussie Rules, Soccer, Rugby union, League and Gridiron all shear similar history. In England before any official rules had been written by any of the codes towns would compete in there own unique styles of football. It got to a stage where there were two popular versions, one version where you could pick up the ball and kick it and the other where you kicked it along the ground not using your hands at all. To stop the constant arguing about whether you could pick the ball up or not

[AKgooner92]

@thegreig Of course its a lack of knowledge that's why i'm bloody asking. This game is predominately played with the hands yet some people call it Football. WTF hahhahaaa

[thegreig]

@AKgooner92 The fact that you have to ask why we call it football just proves your ignorance and lack of knowledge

[armforward]

Awesome game. Love it!

[NeoPRide1]

BAHAHA for anyone who thinks afl (Aussie rules) isn't a real sport well frankly you must not know what sport is. And for any fucker who thinks soccer requires more skill, dedication and balls, well it's ironic that soccer players even have balls they may As well be playing netball :p Aussie rules is a real sport

[jj45455]

@AKgooner92 Aussies call it football because you use your foot to kick the ball, you fucking idiot.