North of the Vic/NSW Border a football/sports historian researches and studies all codes of football and other sports.
In Victoria, a sports historian researches AFL and maybe cricket.
In regards to All codes of football in Australia, Victorians are stupid. They know little about the other codes and have no interest in learning about them.
I work with people down here who hate league. They call it Rugby because they don't realise that there's two rugby codes, nor do they understand the difference between the two.
They invited me to watch an AFL game recently. I went along, watched the game, knew a bit about it, found it to be bearable.
Do you think they'll come to a Rugby League game ? hahaha f**k no. Why?
Because they are dumb idiots. They call 'Rugby' a game full of 'shirtlifters', the same people who support a game where tackling below the waist is considered tripping and thus illegal.
A game where any late contact, no matter how accidental or unavoidable, is penalised severely by the other side receiving a 50 metre penalty
A game where they physically scuffle each others shirts as they are too pissweak scared to throw a punch. When they do throw a punch, it's when one of the other players isn't looking.
A game where they wear little poofy singlets and little girly shorts.
A game created so as to prevent physical contact as much as possible by allowing players to run, kick and pass the ball in any direction they want on a much bigger ground than all over football codes.
Lets face it, AFL is good for a laugh, but if you want to watch real sport, you watch any other code of football.
AFL Fans will never accept any other code of football. They are deluded beyond belief and scared sh*tless about other football codes taking over their game. So much so, their even more pathetic and blatantly sh*thouse sports writers and media intentionally railroad any other football code, give it minimal to no airplay or space on TV, Radio or in print.
There's no such thing as a sports journalist in Victoria.
Melbourne is also bullsh*tting when it calls itself the sporting capital of Australia. You'd think to be the sporting capital, you'd need to do more than have teams in all competitions, you actually have to support it as well. Victorians don't support other sports anything like other states do.
Victorian sports writers are f**kwits and dumb f**ks who pull their collective dicks over some scrawny softcock AFL player who managed to run away from 37 other scrawny softcocks for 80 minutes, all white throwing a ball away quickly or kicking it in no pre-defined direction as quickly as possible so as to avoid any physical contact.
