Cheer, Cheer the Red and the White!

One weekend in May, a bunch of us headed to the Olympic Stadium to see an AFL game between our Sydney Swans (menacing, right) and the West Coast Eagles. Half of us got tickets on one end of the stadium. The other half got tickets on the other end. We were with the opposing teams fans. The other group was with the Swans' most vocal supporters. Not that we weren't around a bunch of Swans fans though. We had better seats on our side as we were only 10 or so rows from the field and they were more than 30.

Anyways, onto the game. The Swans were red and white. The Eagles were blue and gold. We chose this game way back in March as the game we wanted to go to as there is a big rivalry between the two sides. Many of the fans on both sides had flags that they waved around, especially when the other team was going for a goal. All of the Swans fans' flags had something about the Swans on them. However, many of the Eagles fans' flags simply had the Hungry Jacks logo on it (Australia's version of Burger King). It was quite strange.

For the rules to the game, I suggest you go read it on wikipedia here.

Sydney ended up winning the game in a dramatic ending by scoring in injury time to take the lead. It was a great game. Definitely more interesting than rugby. Of course, college football is tops bar none. Here is their theme song (stolen from Notre Dame)




The theme song definitely beats West Coast's theme song. It has to be the worst in the league.