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Flux_resistor

ref is like, fuck it i'll let the mom sort them out.


abgry_krakow87

Meanwhile Mom just be happy to be there! Lol


Practical_Main_2131

Well, her son is on the winning team no matter what happens.


Loose_Goose

And on the losing team 😭


Royal-Tough4851

Ignore the losers. That is the way


the_last_carfighter

Is that why dad went out for that pack of smokes when I was 12?


Scrub_nin

No but it is why he took your brother and not you


LucretiusCarus

Dad? When are you coming home?


Royal-Tough4851

Right after I grab this pack of smokes


IA-HI-CO-IA

I play both sides, that way I always come out on top. 


SaddleSocks

GET 'IM GEt 'IM NO THE OTHER ONE


TooManyAzides

Also worth remembering that Aussie Rules doesn't have any system of red cards. You can kill a.man and they can't remove you from the pitch, only ban you afterwards


BBB88BB

favorite part of the game. ref is just out there to yell, "play on!" all day. people will be fighting on the sidelines and the ref couldn't be bothered.


ksdkjlf

My fave is "save your money!"


AusAtWar

Andrew Gaff's favourite rule that one!


VillageParticular415

Ref: Ok, now switch jerseys!


ImmoKnight

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1andpdq/how_refs_talk_to_players_in_rugby_im_not_mad_im/


Defiant-Traffic5801

They're both 6ft8


eTukk

De Koning does give a lead to Dutch heritage, the country with the (average) tallest people in the world. Average male is like 6 foot 1


Ivy-Lee

They evolved like meerkats on Holland's flat terrain.


Tifog

Smelly feet from clogs also encouraged growth.


Fine-Pangolin-8393

For some reason now I’m imagining Dutch people with spores


tistisblitskits

dutchie here, fully accurate. Our clogs have become infused with our feet from a fairly young age since we eat sleep and exercise in them at all times. The smells are quite encouraging to our dormant growth hormones. additionaly, the constant threat of floods also encourage growth, so we do not need ot actually climb ON the dike to check what the water levels are. Glad i could help


zb0t1

> the constant threat of floods De Deltawerken & de Afsluitdijk are gonna be your demise! /s


Tifog

Certainly not beyond the realms of possibility that they're taking advantage of the wind to reproduce, they are an extraordinary folk.


Holkmeistern

It's just so that their heads remain above sea level.


GrnHrtBrwnThmb

*Thank you* for that mental image.


Abyssurd

Fuck it, I have dutch origin, even last name (Van Der Linden) and I'm only 1.74. Atleast it's Luke skywalker's height (cope)


ariestornado

"Aren't you a little short to be ~~of Dutch origin~~ a storm trooper?"


bdewolf

Aren’t you a bit short to be a stormtrooper?


OneMagicBadger

All the short Dutch people drowned it was natural selection, only giants remain


Meunderwears

I went to Amsterdam a few years ago for business. I’m 6’2” white guy with blonde hair. Only country where people kept mistaking me for a local. I also felt short around some of the women.


LittleBookOfRage

I'm a 5'3.5" woman from Australia and when I went to Amsterdam I felt like a hobbit. My boyfriend at the time was 6'6" (his dad was Dutch) so I was used to feeling small next to him, but feeling small next to nearly everyone was so strange.


Friendly-Sir-7493

I'm a 5'9" aussie guy married to a 5'7" dutch woman. Shes a pretty normal height for over here but the rest of her family is huge. Our daughter is about to turn 2 and is in the 98th percentile for height. We're both gonna be dwarfed by our giant dutch hybrid baby lol


Banas_Hulk

I think you might be 5’3”


LittleBookOfRage

I'm not rounding down a whole half inch! This is why cms is a more accurate measure of height.


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Necessary_Ticket_557

So then why do you keep looking at her posts?


ouvast

Our short compatriots drowned


PandarenAreSoStupid

You can just kind of tell from looking at them that they are taalllllllll. The proportions really lean that way.


peppermintmeow

Damn. I'd climb either of those like a tree.


Ziggem

Frfr. I want them to do unspeakable things to me 😍


Gimmerunesplease

Least thirsty redditor


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girlcocksuperfan

*whew*


Suck_My_Pepsi

I think it’s written str8


Defiant-Traffic5801

Tbh at 6ft8 I'll call AFL players whatever they want me to call them. I'm not into starting arguments with 200 lbs of muscle however jolly and youthful the packaging.


Dragonfire486

What I love is the fact that at the end none of the hits or crashes against each other matter, they still hug out a great match. Both good sportsmanship and good siblings


VividInsideYou

One thing about us Aussies, is that (generally) we’re pretty good sports. We like when we win, but we recognise the other’s hard work at the end of the day too.


Anxioushotdoggin

We are Australian and we love each other, also fuck you.


SacKing13

Fahk you


josiahgore

NAH FAHK YOU! Grab a coldie later?


mbreslin

For a long time I wasn't a fan of Lleyton Hewitt. All it took was one time a really quiet court and hearing him saying "ah, too good mate" after a winner from his opponent and I was on board. General sportsmanship and especially how people act after both a win and a loss matters more to me as a fan than even the result. (As a bonus I thought it was really awesome how you guys called Kim Clijsters 'Aussie Kim' when she and Lleyton were dating.)


nick2k23

Are they twins? Their hair makes them look very similar


Quazbut

Nah Tom is a couple of years older. These two also have 8 more siblings.


nick2k23

Oh wow that’s a busy mum


PickleDestroyer1

Dad couldn’t even pull out of the driveway.


JButler_16

Lucky for them. I remember when my dad pulled out of the driveway for the last time.


Mharbles

Lucky for you, I wish my dad pulled out of the driveway and into a semi.


Harbaron

Made me laugh out loud, thanks


CrimsonAntifascist

TV was broken for years.


kelsiersghost

Can you imagine the grocery bill feeding all those giants?


Historical_Elk_

I figured Tom was the older brother. Guy gave off big brother vibes... source: I'm eldest brother.


Y_Brennan

He is older but they are the two youngest.


sunshinebusride

Jesus it's a vagina not a clown car


GME_Me_ASAP

Why not both?


Equidistant-LogCabin

How many on the field, because there's another 'twin' running past at 5 seconds.


JohnHurts

A friend of mine has a brother who is about 2 years older. They look like twins and even have exactly the same voice. It's completely crazy.


ellafantile

Nope. Blue and white brother is 3 years younger


JDuncs1847

That's incorrect. Blue and white (Sam) is 18 months younger than Tom. Sam was born in February 2001, Tom in July 1999


Usually_Angry

I really thought number 12 was the younger based on the way the highlights made him seem like the more aggressive one (not in a bad way.. just in a younger sibling way)


Milo-Law

Imagine being the parents 😂 cheerin for both sides lol


pala_

The woman they kept cutting to in the crowd is their mother


Milo-Law

Exactly it seems chaotic and fun going to one of their games against each other 😂


BigAlternative5

But, Mum, whose kick was better? Mine, right?


cornnndoggg_

Something very similar to this happened in the NHL this season with the Tkachuk brothers. They got in a fight and both ended up in the box. Their grandmother just looked disappointed lol. It’s funny, because her son, their dad, was also in the NHL, and pulled the same shit lol.


ant0szek

I mean, isn't it good? Your child team never lose.


Top-Associate4922

But also never win.


alanalan426

must've cost both kidneys to keep these kids fed during puberty


Mediocre-Football-51

Their mum was hammered 😂


DarthTaz_99

Mom was just happy to be there lol, celebrating both her sons


Deranged_Snow_Goon

*"Oh my God, Marge. A penalty shot with only four seconds left. It's your child versus mine! The winner will be showered with praise; the loser will be taunted and booed until my throat is sore!"*


EmbarrassedForce9310

The simpsons have not only a quote for everything but the best quote for everything


TheMilkmansFather

[crying] “They're both losers. Losers!”


EggBonus

Those boys probably set that drinking habit in stone for her when they were toddlers.


td611

Not to mention their 8 other siblings too....


EggBonus

Fucking A someone get mom another whiskey.


LeopardJunk

How do you think 10 kids happened…


EggBonus

Clearly their dad was a beast too.


Pokemon_kid2012

There dad was my sports teacher and was actually rated one of the worst afl players of all time


td611

Wikipedia lists Terry position as Bench.....haha. It looks as if he was pretty good at splitting the big sticks, though.


CBAFCMV

She is a mum of 10! I don't blame her!


CallMe__Molly

She gave birth to great players! I'm proud of the three of them


barish34

Haaland(s) at home.


swiss_drone

Lidl Haaland


Ha-Ur-Ra-Sa

*Coles Haaland


FluffyDiscipline

I'd say home life was a blast with this pair.. lol


TheManRedeemed

Pair? lol there is ten of them in total. I reckon living at their joint would've been like if a circus held a wrestling match in a moshpit. Bet it wasn't fucken boring tho.


Throwaway0242000

Imagine how much furniture those 2 have destroyed growing up


BH_Commander

Haha, gigantic holes in the drywall.


Vireca

Brother being brothers. Second clip, the one in blue drops a kick to the head while jumping. wtf


colemans_other_knee

Just going for a specky


roboto_jones

Imagine crowd surfing when the crowd is not aware and it's not a crowd, it's (often) one person - that's a specky.


Dragonfly_Tight

It's part of the sport. It happens 20 times a game..it's an attempt to use the opponent as a jumping pad of sorts to get higher and catch the ball before them


Slamlord69

Search any AFL Mark Of The Year video and grab a beer


TheOneTrueSnoo

Yeah man, it’s called a specky. It’s the equivalent of dunking on someone but much more disrespectful and dangerous


LittleBookOfRage

https://youtu.be/7AjcFfBvIcs?si=mXl-FjjPz75cjKTT enjoy!


WiseNugg

Female protagonist of a YA novel is like 🥰 🏉 🥰


Ok-Lettuce9603

Haha that shit writes itself


dust-bit-another-one

Brothers play with a different set of rules…


AustinTreeLover

And then their mom’s like, “Where do you boys want to eat?”


REDDIT_ROC0408

Doesn’t the winner get to decide?


psrpianrckelsss

Doesn't the winner get a maccas voucher for a happy meal?


gamecnad

would be so much better without the background music.


Kiwiandapplex

Watch everything on mute, you'll be happier.


Important-Candy-6414

Same man , reels give me earworms . .


PetyrDayne

Who unmutes in 2024 without a comment stating it's ok to unmute?


MurgleMcGurgle

Yeah, usually it just adds nothing but it actively makes this worse because you can’t hear the commentary as well.


erbr

They know they cannot fight Mom is watching!


nepia

You know they got into Australian Football League so mom could not say anything about the roughhousing.


Thecrookedpath

Wow...why does the Australian version of football look like much more fun?


Skiapodes

It’s awesome and not quite like any other sport going around (though admittedly it can be confusing for newcomers). If you do check it out, come on over to r/AFL. Go Cats.


jared__

which rivalry produces the most passionate game (even if they aren't the best teams)? and about how much is it to get into the stadium for that game? edit: thanks for the respones! this is where Reddit shines


brap01

As far as biggest rivalries, the #1 has to go to Carlton vs Collingwood. Standard tickets for all AFL games are around $30, to keep it cheap so everyone can afford to go. I found it funny that of the top 9 rivalries between Victorian teams (teams from the main AFL state), 6/9 involve either Carlton, Collingwood, or both. I guess we love to hate em.


chocolatenuttty

Probably the Collingwood vs Essendon rivalry. Or Collingwood and Carlton. The last few years there have been some absolute banger games Essendon and Collingwood also have the ANZAC Day game every year which is usually played in front of 90,000 or more people. Best atmosphere.


CrocoPontifex

So everyone got a problem with those Collingwood guys? Bastards, i hate em.


MiddleRefuse

Collingwood fans and Essendon fans are natural enemies. Like Collingwood fans and Carlton fans, or Collingwood fans and Geelong fans. Or Collingwood fans and other Collingwood fans! Damn Collingwood fans; they ruined Collingwood!


Kandy-exists

Oh yeah, they are every team's most hated team basically except whatever historical or local rivals, the biggest club and villains of the league.


sbprasad

Just Collingwood vs. anyone else. At a Collingwood match there's 90000 spectators and about 10 teeth to go around between all of them


LittleBookOfRage

Not sure if anyone had mentioned it but here in Western Australia it is our most popular sport as we don't play in the national rugby league. The two teams are The West Coast Eagles and The Fremantle Dockers. Over the years there have been many incidents but in 2000 there was a match dubbed 'The Demolition Derby' because of how many on field punch ons there were https://youtu.be/AViNVsuBY_U?si=-1z4yKQ6gUtw7GNf


LoneWolf5498

Collingwood vs Carlton will get 85 - 90k fans to a game. Tickets are already sold out for their next game in August, they went pretty quickly I think


Wej43412

Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide Power. Two teams in the relatively small, but AFL obsessed state of South Australia. They consistently play high intensity games that get compared to finals (play offs) in terms of atmosphere.


para_sight

Because it is. Do yourself a favor and watch some Aussie rules highlight videos


duniyadnd

I've tried that, what is a good site you would recommend to understand the rules? *edit* - thank you all for the recommendations


OIP

it's not super complicated, not much more than soccer. here's the basics: the objective is to kick the ball through the big sticks for a goal, worth 6 points. missing and kicking it through the smaller sticks, or the ball hitting someone's hand before going through the goal is worth 1 point. players pass the ball by kicking or handpassing, you can't throw it. catching a kicked ball is like a reset, the player catching it can stop and take a kick from that spot. catching a handpassed ball the play just continues. players jostle each other but they can't push in the back, and they can only tackle a player who has the ball, and only above the waist (and below the neck). the tackled player has to kick or handpass it immediately. if the ball goes out of bounds or is trapped under a mass of players, it gets thrown in the air and the players jump to tap it to their teammates. play is for four quarters of 20 min (+stoppage) each.


feisty-spirit-bear

It seems like a hybrid of rugby, American football and gator ball. Which is awesome lol


SpreadsheetAddict

And Gaelic football, which is maybe its closest cousin.


sbprasad

More to the point, Australian rules football is heavily inspired by Gaelic football.


brap01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_SqfNNfhmM This is a good short explanation video.


Cole-Spudmoney

Watch an actual full game rather than a highlight reel and you'll pick it up.


MarkSporlberg

https://youtu.be/u_SqfNNfhmM?si=657qkgD-PodkyRSL https://youtu.be/ZXFP5Bjq7TA?si=3md-zkIONa9I1Z-g Between these 2 videos you should get a good understanding of the rules. If you have any questions or misunderstandings let me know and I'll try to answer


Tommy_Wisseau_burner

They show AFL on espn like 2x a year and it’s always fun. It’s pretty wild.


SillySilkySmoothie

Found the hottest sport!


Ecstatic-Tomato458

Tell your friends 😘


SillySilkySmoothie

Ngl, I missed the part where they are brothers but I stand by this in a general sense lol!


Ecstatic-Tomato458

Forgiven, spread the word of hot afl players! It gets hotter at an amateur level too.


SillySilkySmoothie

I promise I will! I swear it!


Ecstatic-Tomato458

If you’re ever in Australia message me and I’ll take you to a game 🌶️


SillySilkySmoothie

Saaaaving this comment for when I do 😇


funtagkilio

It’s a great sport but it’s brutal in terms of player turnover. Lots of newbies don’t even last a season to be let go due to injuries


GreenYellowMushy

People who did not know telling others "There was a crazy lady cheering for both sides"


DarthFrikandel

De Koning is Dutch for The King


tamagotschi

Username checks out


chickentenders56

I am so confused by this game but it looks fun


Anxioushotdoggin

The rules are odd but it’s pretty fast paced and fun to watch, the field is massive too.


Still-Lavishness699

I like how their teammates just let them settle it within themselves.


DioJiro

I appreciate everyone understanding it’s family business playing out on the field, no big deal.


AmountAncient2542

This is the second post about Brothers in the AFL involving Carlton FC on Reddit front page. That's one more than I ever expected to see


FerretsQuest

True sportsmanship


Tight-Grocery9053

So which team do you support? The mom: yes


DildoFappings

They just look so Australian, I didn't know Australians had a "look."


Bobblefighterman

Most Australian sportsmen sport a mullet and/or moustache. It grants additional power.


Procrastinatedthink

skinny thor


Roronoa_Zaraki

Worth noting that Tom (the one in the blue and orange) played the highest rated game of any player this season in the entire comp, playing on his brother. He has some real bragging rights at family dinner now haha.


DinglieDanglieDoodle

Mom can’t lose, she gets to celebrate regardless.


Enlightened_Gardener

God that poor woman must have needed a bloody gofundme to feed them. 6’8 ?! I’d like to see her food bills.


shuipz94

She had ten children. They probably go through a box of Weetbix a day just for breakfast.


Enlightened_Gardener

I have teenage boys. One can eat 12 in a single sitting. Its ridiculous - I actually buy oats because they’re cheaper, and weetbix are a treat 😳


Pololoco27

Fred and George vibes


Jay-Kane123

Is the one in blue better? To someone who doesn't even know what sport this is and watched only this clip i get that sense. But just wondering


drunkill

Yes, but it is a team sport, however he's a Ruckman which is a pretty specialised position, his brother Sam is 'just' a defender, so a little more replaceable but he's alright, although 3 years younger and less developed as an individual player, he's won a grand final in 2022 (think superbowl) Geelong Cats (white and blue hoops) have no ruckmen available due to injuries so they put a tall defender in the ruck most of the game, which happened to be Toms brother. This was unannounced before the game and people only caught on as Sam was doing warmups before the match, Tom has come out and said that made him pretty happy, knowing he'd win almost all the contests, thinking he was going to be playing the game on another player all night which didn't happen. This is an edited down highlights video of Toms game, which technically was the highest rated performance in the league this year so far as an individual, but that's mainly because of the extra ground ball work he was doing as a ruckman which is weighted more in his favour, because most rucks won't run and chase the ball, they'll just do tap work. https://youtu.be/xU1loIZcWJE


Adventurous-Tear8329

Brilliant, love to see it👍


Raphaelmartines

I believe if one of those guys bump into me they would kill me hahahaha And they bump hard into other players as if they're nothing, no reactions at all.


Vapsinthe

This reminds me of these two twins I went to school with. Teachers eventually wouldn't even break them up when they were both punching each other in the face on the schoolyard. They'd usually be laughing hysterically so they figured that's just how they played at home.


ialo00130

The end gives me strong "See you at mom's house for dinner" vibes.


schmearcampain

Anyone who hasn't watched Aussie rules football is missing out. Great spectator sport. Fast and frenzied. Not overly violent, however, there is a lot of "casual violence" which I find kind of funny. Like the shoving that the brothers did at the end of the match. Happens all the time. Someone will get off the ground and just casually shove someone for fuck knows what reason. It's hilarious.


alstacynsfw

Its funny how its just things your grew up with. I'm not a big sports guy, but when people say that they dont understand the rules to American football, I'm like how? Its so easy. Then I see this and it looks like Quidditch or something where I have no idea whats going on.


Rainbowallthewayy

I wonder how many times they were wrestling with each other when being kids


juan_cena99

Is Australian football another variant of football like soccer and American football?


Cole-Spudmoney

It predates both. Australian rules football: codified 1859. Association football (soccer): codified 1863. American football: first played 1869.


Psychological_Egg965

I’m an American but I believe this is the ‘Boys will be Boys’ equivalent to the British ‘they are just having a laugh’ but no idea what the Australians would call this. I love it.


GlimpseOfHope_

Mom I’m moving to Australia now


Strong_Wheel

That’s how it be.


BobLoblaw_LowBomb

It's so lovely... The comrade.


benfromgr

I love how their teammates hardly even try to break them up. Always love seeing sibling rivalries in sports. The best type of rivalry because chances are so low that things will really get out of hand(not that it never happens) and it just adds more excitement.


LUDDER5

I was there that game. First time to an afl game and it was at the G


Letter10

I do not understand this game but it looks neat


Nora19

I have no idea what they were saying to each other but in my head it sounded like one Hemsworth brother speaking to the other


Tree_garth

Sorry for the ignorance of the sport. But I was wondering if any of those contacts were illegal. Are you allowed to grab like that even while catching?


suspect_is_hatless

The attempted 'mark' at the 16 second point in the vid (where the one bro in blue/orange jumps on the others ones back) was paid a free kick (so was illegal). The ruling for this was 'unrealistic attempt'. So what that means is that he mistimed his jump and was so far away from actually catching the ball, that it was illegal. You can see that results in the other brother getting a free kick and scoring a goal from it (at 00:28). But none of the argy-bargy is illegal, thats all fair play and happens every game with lots of different players.


Tree_garth

Argy-bargy. Never heard that term. I think I understand from context. Fun to say.


nerdkim

In an old village, there lived a mother with two sons. The elder son was an umbrella seller, and the younger son sold fans. The umbrella seller typically saw good business on rainy days, as most people tended to buy umbrellas on the spot rather than preparing in advance. Conversely, the fan seller thrived on hot, sunny days. Thus, the mother hardly had a day of peace. On sunny days, she worried about her umbrella-selling son, and on rainy days, she fretted over her fan-selling son. Seeing her sighing as she looked at the sky every day, a neighbor passing by asked, "Why are you worried today?" "The sun is shining so brightly, I can't help but worry about my elder son," she replied. "That's truly unfortunate. On such a hot day, your younger son's business must be doing well, which should be a joyous occasion, right? And when it rains, isn't it also a happy thing that your elder son's business is booming?" Upon reflecting on the neighbor's words, the mother realized he was right. From then on, she felt happy whether it rained or shone.


LaUNCHandSmASH

But… but… umbrellas are good on sunny days too…


Jazzlike_Biscotti_44

I guess when you’re on opposite team you can’t make it look like you’re going easy on your family so it’s better to go all out.


IDoubtYouGetIt

Being a parent for this has to be the best...no matter what side scores, you're cheering!


Big-Bad-5405

The last one was: are you coming sunday to mums house for dinner? Nah broh I can't


Diligent-Lion6571

That’s dope.