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I LOVE you Ausbacker...I went to Australia in 93 for the first time in my life...a two week vacation...I meet this kid on the plane in L.A. and he invites me to his parents house in Sydney just because I was an American he liked.I get there and his fahter is one of the most powerful lawyers in Sydney and his mother ran King's Cross...I know YOU know what I'm talking about. Anyway,they invite me to stay in their ridiculous house and property outside Sydney as long as I want..for the bubble. I mean we're talking the luckiest American in history, right? So, anyway,being me I want to go out and see what Sydney and the whole Aussie experience is about so I take the train into the city,go to that Chinese section of the city and into this sports bar these people I just met told me to go. I walk in, there's ten TV's and rugby on every goddamned channel...rugby league, rugby union..no Aussie Rules bull**** AND cricket. The place is packed, I'm immediately spotted as "an American" and I get these typical, athletic, hard nosed Aussie types trying to make sure I don't order Fosters and try a 4x...I KNOW you understand...so I'm not a moron, I know what's up so I tell the bartender, great guy by the way, "give me a double Johnny Walker Black on the rocks.." OK, THAT gains me a small measure of whatever, respect, acceptance, I mean Aussies are the best.The thing is, everybody's seriously into this union match and I talk the bartender into finding the NFL on the satellite...after all, what does some Yank know about rugby , right?
Yeah, I spent more than a few hours at that bar..and yeah, I got hammered..on 4x..but when I left, I left a whole bunch of new Patriot fans that I sort of co-opted into being New England fans because, after all,America's Cup, Newport, I'm from R.I....you can see..Aussies love US...west coast Americans...not so much. And when I left I told all of them, "you root for an NFL team..Patriots!!!...never Dallas...never Miami".
I went there for a two week vacation...I stayed 4 1/2 months...I had credit cards and 10 G's in cash...came back to the states with 8600 left. The vacation dream of a lifetime. Jeezus, how do you tell your girl you were in a city called Surfer's Paradise at Jupiter Casino for the bubble?I've never seen anything like true rugby league or rugby union but I'll never forget the look on these guys faces when they saw a MLB plant a RB with such speed and such fury that they immediately got HOOKED.
THAT is why I appreciate your membership here. Not only do you know the game as good or better than a lot of us, you've never shot your mouth off about the 1000's of Australian rugby players that could kick HERE,like 20 to 30 yards farther than most of the stiffs in this league that get paid millions.
BUT, the most important thing you can do in your life as a Pats fan is to spread through family and friends from Perth to Brisbane, the JETS suck.
Yeah, I spent more than a few hours at that bar..and yeah, I got hammered..on 4x..but when I left, I left a whole bunch of new Patriot fans that I sort of co-opted into being New England fans because, after all,America's Cup, Newport, I'm from R.I....you can see..Aussies love US...west coast Americans...not so much. And when I left I told all of them, "you root for an NFL team..Patriots!!!...never Dallas...never Miami".
I went there for a two week vacation...I stayed 4 1/2 months...I had credit cards and 10 G's in cash...came back to the states with 8600 left. The vacation dream of a lifetime. Jeezus, how do you tell your girl you were in a city called Surfer's Paradise at Jupiter Casino for the bubble?I've never seen anything like true rugby league or rugby union but I'll never forget the look on these guys faces when they saw a MLB plant a RB with such speed and such fury that they immediately got HOOKED.
THAT is why I appreciate your membership here. Not only do you know the game as good or better than a lot of us, you've never shot your mouth off about the 1000's of Australian rugby players that could kick HERE,like 20 to 30 yards farther than most of the stiffs in this league that get paid millions.
BUT, the most important thing you can do in your life as a Pats fan is to spread through family and friends from Perth to Brisbane, the JETS suck.
