Man… Even their final scores are confusing… Anyway, Last night (this morning?) the West Coast Eagles defeated Collingwood in the Australian Football League “Grand Final” (A name is so Australian it’s almost British). Collingwood was up by 29 (that’s a lot.. maybe?) early in the game but WCE (Idk if they actually call them that but this is America and writing full words takes to long) closed the gap to two goals (12 points) by the end of the first half. Despite losing 3 guys to injury and midfielder Andrew Gaff (whose name came with a guaranteed spot on any AFL team) suspended for punching a guy in the jaw, WCE was able to pull off a 5 point victory to become the 2018 AFL champs. I really wanted to watch this game but 1. it was 12:30 this morning (as in almost yesterday) and 2. It could only find it on websites that wanted to charge me $24.. I’ll try the youtubes later.
So I looked it up… Here’s what that score means. There are two ways to score (that I know of… you probably get secret points for punching a guys jaw.. or like… scoring with a koala while not getting killed by any of the crazy death animals that live down under). A “Goal” is worth 6 points and happens when you kick it between the middle posts. A “Behind” worth 1 point is when it’s outside the middle posts but inside the outer posts… seems kinda like quidditch but with jaw punching… not sure how I feel about it… (I hate Harry Potter but Jaw Punching seems fun). Anyway, the 11.13 means 11 goals, 13 behinds for a total of 79 points. AFL is weird… Just say 79.
