The Best Football Team in Dallas
When ESPN debuted in the early 1980s, one of the network's time-filling staples was Australian Rules Football. I was obsessed.
The giant, oval field. The fans with gigantic pom poms. The four - that's right, four - goal posts. The referees that signaled points by seemingly drawing six-shooters from their holsters and by resuming play from a dead ball by slamming what appears to be a bigger, roundier football into the turf with a high bounce.
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