19 December – The Seven Network loses the TV rights to the AFL for the first time, since televised football began in 1957.
Except for the Club-Call, the current play-off format follows the play-off system of the Australian Football League.
In 1946 and 1947 he played 16 games of Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League with St Kilda, after arriving at the club from Duntroon.
Port Power, the AFL team, uses Alberton as a training and administration base, but not for matches.
In one episode he attempted to put Victorian viewers to sleep by hypnotizing them with an Australian Football League football.
The Australian Football League the top level of Australian Rules Football in Australia
"Bring It on Back" had been used between April and August in advertisements for the 2007 AFL Season on Channel 10 in Australia, to promote the return of Saturday Night Football to 10.
Skase owned five resorts as well as interests in the Seven Network television station and the Brisbane Bears VFL club.
Craig Willis (born 1954) is an Australian announcer who has appeared as the voice of many of Network Ten / One HD & Seven Network's AFL Grand Final, Anzac Day, Dreamtime At The 'G and major Finals Broadcasts/Telecasts. He is known to many as the 'voice of the AFL'
The company entered the mainstream in late 2009 when it was announced that it would operate a live AFL Radio service for listeners in regional areas.
In his spare time, Polites was a leading Australian rules football umpire, officiating in 39 senior Victorian Football League matches from 1976-1979.
The tune (with different lyrics) is also used in the modern day as "Good Old Collingwood Forever", the club song of the Australian Football League's Collingwood Football Club (coincidentally, in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, they joke about moving to Australia at the end).
For example, the Australian Football League has an official melee rule which is used to fine players involved in large on-field brawls, regardless of whether or not they throw punches.
The Australian Football League has taken some steps to reduce the incidence of osteitis pubis, in particular recommending that clubs restrict the amount of bodybuilding which young players are required to carry out, and in general reducing the physical demands on players before their bodies mature.
Ayers graduated in 1999 with a degree in Sports Business from the Australian College of Physical Education and worked as a Development Officer for the Australian Football League before joining the staff of the member for Lindsay, Jackie Kelly, in her capacity as the then Minister for Sport and Tourism and the Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
For many years "Tommy Bent's statue" was a well-known Melbourne landmark, which, at the time of the Victorian Football League grand final, would be decorated with a cap and scarf in the colours of the team that won the premiership.
Also, for special events like concerts or AFL football games extra trains can be originated this way.
V8 Supercars is Australia's third largest sport behind AFL Football and Horse racing.
Wilde is a supporter of the Melbourne Football Club (his brother, Chris, having played for them in the 1970s) in the Australian Football League.
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The 1979 Brownlow Medal was awarded to Peter Moore from the Collingwood Football Club as the fairest and best player during the 1979 Victorian Football League home-and-away season.
Australian rules football in Japan is coordinated by the AFL Japan, with a national league based mainly in Tokyo (affiliated with the Australian Football League) but with clubs in Osaka, Nagoya and Hiroshima.
Tazos were first released in Australia in 1995 with the Looney Tunes set, since then Australia the TAZO series has grown with various themes which include various The Simpsons sets, Beyblades, Star Wars, Marvel Heroes and in the last few years AFL and NRL footy sets.
Republic of Ireland football player Damien Duff is from the locality as was Australian Football League player and Brownlow Medallist Jim Stynes.
Ben Mathews (born 29 November 1978) is a former Australian Football League player with the Sydney Swans, originally recruited from the Corowa-Rutherglen region of New South Wales.
Since 2006, the Australian Football League has supported the organisation with the beyondblue Cup awarded annually to the winner of clashes between the Geelong and Hawthorn football clubs.
He then moved to Victoria to pursue his law studies and played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Bowman "Bo" Nixon (born 25 July 1984) is a former college captain of Assumption College, Kilmore and Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL).
The ground is home to North Albany Football and Sporting Club, Albany Football Club and Collingwood Park Cricket Club and has hosted several large events such as Crusty Demons's West Coast Carnage Tour and in 2008 hosted an AFL NAB Challenge Cup match between West Coast Eagles and Collingwood.
Whilst playing for the Roosters in 2008, Peyroux featured in the Naked For A Cause initiative Gods of Football in which AFL and ARL players compiled a nude calendar to raise money for breast cancer charity the McGrath Foundation.
Gary Moorcroft (born 16 April 1976) is a former Australian rules football player for the Essendon and Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League (AFL).
In one of TISM's many references to Australian Football League football, the liner notes, which chronicle the rise, fall and disbanding of TISM, and the band members individual exploits around the world, were credited to E.J. Whitten, argued by some to be the greatest AFL player of all time; a picture of Whitten appeared on the cover of the EP Gentlemen, Start Your Egos (1991).
Jack Harmer Broadstock (born 1 December 1920, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules footballer who started his league career with West Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1938 before moving to Melbourne to play for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1943 and winning a premiership with the club in his debut season.
Kevin Vincent Sheehan OAM (born 1 August 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer for Geelong and the current Australian Football League (AFL) National Talent and International Manager, a member of the AFL football operations sub-committee and a selector for the AFL Rising Star award.
Bajaj has also appeared as a sportscaster at the 2010 Australian Open tennis tournament, followed by a broadcast of the Australian Football League (AFL), and she has written for Advantage Tennis.
In addition to his work on Nine News and SEN 1116, he has also been a commentator during 92.9's Australian Football League (AFL) coverage in the late 1990s, and presented a talkback sports show with Scott Watters on 882 6PR in 2002.
During the Boomers 2012 Olympic campaign, Australian Football League player Scott Pendlebury noted Matt Nielsen's athletic ability and mentioned that he could have had a career in AFL had he not chosen to play basketball.
The award was instituted in 1951 and is named after William McClelland, a former Victorian Football League (now AFL) player and administrator and member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
The Massive McMuffin was introduced to coincide with the AFL (Australian Football League) and NRL (Australian National Rugby League) season of 1998, when McDonald's Australia launched the Footy Burger (now the Double Quarter Pounder), Mini Footy Burger (double Cheeseburger) and Massive McMuffin.
The National-Panasonic Cup was the Victorian Football League's (VFL) night football competition between 1987 to 1989.
Channel Ten used the song during advertisements promoting its 2009 Australian Football League coverage on its main channel as well as its High Definition channel One HD
The club has produced many AFL players, including Collingwood and Brisbane Lions player Anthony Corrie and ex-Melbourne player, Liam Jurrah.
It is identical to a four-team McIntyre System playoff, first used by the Victorian Football League in Australia in 1931, originally called the Page-McIntyre system, after the VFL delegate, the Richmond Football Club's Secretary, Percy "Pip" Page, who had advocated its use.
Plympton FC has produced a number of Australian Football League (AFL) players including Bryce Gibbs (Carlton), Cameron Hitchcock (Port Adelaide), Christian Howard (Western Bulldogs) and Patrick McCarthy (Carlton).
His brother Jack Clarke and father Tom played Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League with Essendon.
In 1980 and 1981, Godsell played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League.
After watching his first Australian Football League match, between the Sydney Swans and Fremantle at the Sydney Cricket Ground, in 1995 he developed a fascination with the goal umpires, who at the time wore white hats.
In June 2007 Shannon was one of two Victorian Women's Football League representatives in the E. J. Whitten legends match where she played alongside former Australian Football League players such as Scott Cummings, Nick Holland, Mick Martyn and Nicky Winmar.
Australian Football League clubs have irregularly played matches at Manuka Oval since 2001 although there is still no official Canberra-based AFL team.
Stephen MacPherson (born 2 December 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Footscray Bulldogs in the AFL.
Landmarks of Wendouree include the Minerdome, the home of the Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush; the Ballarat Showgrounds, where the annual Ballarat Show is held; Eureka Stadium, which is the home ground of the North Ballarat VFL (Australian Football) club, and has hosted pre-season Australian Football League matches, the former St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery, Stockland Wendouree shopping centre, and the Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts.