Australian Rules Football

Sheer Genius and Dumb Luck: The Rise of a Cultural Behemoth

Submitted by David Cherry on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 10:08am

Cover Art: Those Guys Have All the Fun by James A. Miller and Tom ShalesThere was a time when ESPN’s Chris “Boomer” Berman was my only friend and I actually grasped the nuances of Australian Rules Football. I tend to think of that period as my own personal dark ages—meaning I spent my time in a perpetual gloom, positing lots of benighted theories of how the universe works, bathing very little, and living on a diet of root vegetables and beer.

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