35 Reasons to Avoid Australia
| September 26, 2016
They don’t have real sports
Firstly: Surfing? How is that a sport? It’s just playing with a plank of wood in shark-infested water. Anyone can do that really, can’t they?
Then they have something called Australian Football League (AFL), which basically resembles a cross between American Football and Rugby, only it’s played on an oval-shaped pitch which is imaginatively called an “oval.”
No one really understands the rules but they seem to shout about some guy called Mark a lot. We don’t know who he is but he seems to be at every game*.
* a ‘mark’ in a AFL is when a player catches a ball that has travelled more than 15 meters. Yeah, we don’t get it either.
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