The Footy

Australian rules football or "The Footy" as it's affectionately called is the sport that takes over the autumn and winter months in Melbourne. It has been around for 150 years. (I learned this because the 50 meter circle is very confusingly labled 150 this year to commemorate the anniversary) It started in Melbourne and every neighborhood has their own team. In the past couple decades the other states have gotten their own teams, but they are not has fanatical as the people in Melbourne. The game on ANZAC day sold out (95,000 seats). People in Sydney don't really care about footy. They seem to prefer rugby. We barrack for St. Kilda. Barrack means route, but apparantly that's a bad word in Australia. They were pretty good, but haven't been doing so well this year. Footy is one big game of hot potato. There are 36 men in short shorts and high striped socks running around chasing after a ball that kind of looks like an American football, but bounces around everywhere. You'd have to see it to believe it.

For this week's game, Andy was in town. Andy is the Accenture global postal retail expert (i know, WOW!). He's the one who sought out Sean for this role. He's a great guy. We enjoy when he's in town. He still lives in DC, but spends about 75% of his time traveling to Europe, India, Singapore and Australia.