Last week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Jon Wertheim traveled to Australia to speak with one of the AFL's top players, an American named Mason Cox.
Australian rules football is not just the NFL played down under. Also referred to as"Aussie rules" or"footy," this highly physical game is one of Australia's most popular sports, and was originally invented in the 1800s as a way to keep cricketers fit during the off season. The game then started to gain popularity in Melbourne, and the official rules of the sport were codified in 1859.
The game is played on an oval field roughly double the size of an NFL field. According to Cox, this means players run roughly 13 miles each game. There are 18 players per team on the field at any given time, and they must hand pass, kick, or dribble the ball, which is rounder and larger than an American football, down the field, and score by kicking the ball through one of four goalposts.
"There's no rules, so you can do whatever you want. It's extremely physical," Cox, who was once diagnosed with two torn retinas after a game, explained to 60 Minutes."You can tackle. You can kind of punch people… I think it's the toughest sport in the world with how much you have to run, the collisions, everything."
"I had one teammate who got all his teeth knocked out. We played a game in Perth, after a four hour flight, they stuck 'em back in, then put his mouth guard in for the flight," AFL player Tom Mitchell told 60 Minutes."And he flew home with a mouth guard in just to try and keep [the teeth] alive, but they all died on the plane…"
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