Ingram decided to name the club the St. Louis Blues, not after the hockey team and song , but after his beloved navy blues in Melbourne. Curiosity about this unusual sport quickly spread, thanks to several media reports, and more and more people came out sample Aussie Rules. In fact, it can be argued that no sport, except perhaps hockey in Canada, means more to the culture of a nation than Aussie Rules does to Australia. We grow up eating, breathing and sleeping football. I didn't play in any organized leagues, but I did play socially when I was a kid.
Football is a part of life there.
I've been here for five years now, and when I mention Australian football to people here, there's a lot of curiosity about it, but people really don't understand it. They confuse it with rugby or think about the goal umpires or think about how rough the game looks to them, when in fact, Australian football is a very skilled game. Players could be delivering the ball to a teammate or kicking for a goal, which is scored when the ball passes between a pair of sticks placed into the ground that are 6.4 meters apart from each other without being touched. If the ball passes between a goalpost and another, shorter post 6.4 meters apart from either goalpost, strikes a goalpost or is touched before crossing the goal line, a behind is scored. Sometimes, even Australians who are in St. Louis are surprised by the presence of Aussie Rules in the Gateway City.