Americans play Australian Rules Footy, too...

Here's a good article on New York's own Alex Aurrichio, striving to become an AFL player on a rookie contract in the coming season, now just ten weeks away. There are links within the article to many others on this topic, as the United States has become the next fertile recruiting ground for the eighteen Australian Football League clubs - scouts run combines in places like Los Angeles on a regular basis, looking for the best athletes they can with the understanding that they'll have to learn the game from scratch in most cases.