- Football fans not happy with the new AFL commercial
- Let's say the promotion makes two obvious mistakes
The AFL faces a wave of reaction from Footy fans that has criticized the last commercial of the League for making two obvious mistakes.
Destined to generate emotion for the football season, which began last week, the new announcement has caused criticism of the passionate fan base.
The announcement, called '160 years of the good things', has attracted that the complaints of the spectators with eagle eyes for being historically inaccurate about when it was first played in Australia, and by overlooking one of the sport foundations, St Kilda.
The high energy announcement aims to tell a rapid history of sport in Australia, highlighting some of the most controversial and iconic moments in the history of the game, as well as the rivalries between the various teams.
The omission of St Kilda was quickly noted by fans, who expressed their dissatisfaction on social networks.
'Pathetic of @afl that is not shown at all. They simply do not care fans or teams, 'they published an user X.
Eagle's Footy Fans have played the new commercial statement about when sport began for the first time in Australia
The promotion tells viewers that AFL is close for 160 years, as it celebrates moments of milestones like Lance Franklin kicking their 1000 goal (in the photo)
“The @AFL has screwed @stkildafc with the accessory for years, but now they totally forget them,” said another.
St Kyda is still one of the most durable clubs in AFL, despite claiming the only prime minister in his proud 151 years of history, in 1966.
The announcement frames 1865 as the starting point of sport in Australia, 160 years ago to the present. However, fans claim that this ignores the true beginnings of the game.
An X user published: '160 anniversary of what? The game was played for the first time 166 years ago. The rules were coded for the first time 165 years ago. I mean Carlton Australian Rules Football Club celebrated 160 years last year. Did you also forget ST KILDA in the competition you are announcing?
Another replied: 'AFL is 128 years old. Australian football is 166 years old.
It has been said that Australian football has its roots in a similar sport played by indigenous Australians.
An appointment of Johnny Connolly of the Mukjarrawaint tribe showed in the Victoria State Library, states that indigenous Australians were playing in a ritual practice called 'Game Ball' in early 1800.
History professor Jenny Hocking discovered the appointment and a copy document is carried out at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies and Island Straight Torres.
St Kilda fans were less than impressed to stay out of the new commercial
“When playing a ball game they kicked: the different totems present two different sides and there were men and women on each side, for example, Garchuka men and women against men and women Wurant,” said the appointment.
'Johnny remembers that he, his mother and mother played on the same side in the ball. His cousin George played with the Wurant on the other side. “While Tom Wills is considered the inventor of the game, historians have placed the presence of aboriginal football in the Regional Western District of Victoria, where he grew up.
The anecdote plus the presence of aboriginal football in the area has opened the debate about whether Tom Wills was exposed to the indigenous game before writing and creating the rules of Australian football in 1859.
Wills returned from school in England, where Rugby played, and proposed Cricket players stay in the low season playing football.
In 1859, Wills, his cousin Hca Harrison, WJ Hammersley and JB Thompson co -written the rules of football, before Wills continued and founded the Melbourne Football Club. Wills also began the Geelong Football Club.