What do you think of Gaelic football? You can use hands and feet.
Is it an improvement or a dumb idea?
What do you think of Gaelic football? You can use hands and feet.
Is it an improvement or a dumb idea?
It's pretty great. Hurling is better though.
what are the rules for using your hands? so you can't pick up the ball but you can block it?
drunk irishmen too pissed to remember things like rules so they developed a sport where there aren't any
kek, sounds like jazz/jam bands
I don't even know. I just know the sport exists and I watched a couple of highlights
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looks dumb. even soccer is better than this.
the ball is a new addition desu it used to be a potato
kek nice trips
-You can't pick the ball directly off the ground, you have to scoop it up with your foot
-You can run with ball but every four steps you have to either bounce the ball off the ground or solo it (drop the ball into your foot and kick it back into your hand)
-You can't bounce it twice in a row so you gotta git gud at soloing
-You can't throw the ball, you have to handpass (hold the ball on the palm of one hand and punch it with the other)
Pretty fun game, but fpbp, hurling is way better. Football is the more popular of the two games with only one county not having a team in the All-Ireland, but hurling (which is only popular in parts of Munster, south Lobster and Galway) has more top quality teams at the moment, while Dublin are walking away with the football title every year.
What about contact? What's allowed?
Hard shoulder to shoulder contact is allowed, and it's generally fairly physical. Tackling in Gaelic football is really confusing though. You can't rugby tackle or pull jerseys, you have to sort of stand where the other guy wants to go and block him from going around you. Lads usually put their hands out and them around or try to slap the ball out of attacker's hand.
Most of the time though, being a defender at the highest level is about doing illegal techniques and not getting caught. GAA tried to stamp this out with the black card (you're sent off but your manager gets to send in a sub for you) for "cynical play" but this only made things more confusing.
A football fan could explain it better than me. Like I said, I'm more into hurling.
There's a program called The Toughest Trade where they send gaelic footballers to play other sports and guys from those sports come to play football or hurling.
Alex Auld from the NHL and Brian Schneider from baseball tried hurling. Some NFL guy tried football. Most episodes are on youtube. Worth a watch
The one where Aidan O'Shea went to the NFL combine and Roberto Wallace took his place in Breaffy is the best episode.
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Other good ones are the rugby one with Michael Murphy and Shane Williams, and the one where Lee Chin tries to learn how to play ice hockey. The strength of the episode is completely down to who's taking part. The cricket one was shite, because Maher is a boring cunt.
Shane Williams was a decent player
Kek
Is hurling just lacrosse for tards?
No, it's lacrosse for straight people, mixed with baseball and hockey
>lacrosse
what a gay name
Sean Cody is top brass is all I gotta say
This looks fun
The season is pretty much wound up except for provincial club games, which mostly aren't televised. If you want to check out a game, the closest you'll come is the International Rules series that's coming up.
It's Ireland v Australia, with Gaelic footballers representing Ireland and Aussie Rules players representing Australia. The rules are a mix between the two sports
-it uses the round ball from Gaelic
-has a goal goalkeepers, which Aussie Rules doesn't have
-has "behind" posts, which Gaelic doesn't have
-has Aussie Rules tackling
-has kickout rules set for Australian lads
Usually pretty fun, but it's on in Australia this year, so it'll probably be too late for to me watch.
>that ghetto wigger music
>that song
DK makes good compilations but he has a fucking atrocious taste in music. Hip hop/rap and GAA together is just cringey, and the songs he uses aren't even good examples of the genre. He should use Irish bands and singers for such a quintessentially Irish sport.
Top tip: play Brewing Up a Storm over any of his videos in future.
You wouldn't get this in lacrosse
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>the rest of the world will never know these feels
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Feel sorry for ye, tbqh
All you need to know about Gaelic sports is nobody gives a shit about them until it gets to the finals so all the dirty little bandwagoners can have a big day out in Dublin.
Bollocks. People just care about club more. If no one gave a shite, the system wouldn't work, given it's 99% run on a voluntary basis.
I remember a couple of years ago I tried to pick up hurling and I went to a few of my dad's GAA club practices. Hurling is a really cool and intense sport but it is so goddamn hard to learn it if you've not been playing since very early age, holy shit. I was never able to bounce the sliotar on my stick more than once while running. If it wasn't so incomprehensible and difficult I imagine it would be at least as popular as lacrosse.
In 2007 I went to the Dublin-Laois final and invaded the pitch, lel.
>tfw it's been 10 fucking years
>tfw you can't invade the pitch at croke park anymore
>tfw too young to go to finals in 98 and 01
>tfw teams didn't win anything else until this year
I'll never get to do it
I feel like I cucked you, I feel bad for you. Stay strong, Irish bro.
Well, I've done pitch invasions at Pearse Stadium and the like. I'll just never be able to do it in an All-Ireland final. You didn't do it in an All-Ireland though, it was probably a Leinster final. 2007 final was Kerry and Cork.