Been thinking after contributing to a couple of posts. The terminology for aussie rules has been changed a bit by the AFL marketing machine, and notably used by the media.
AFL is now a term to cover the game of Australian Rules.
Burley or Sherrin only produce AFL Balls.
AFL Star is someone who plays for one of the 18 teams.
AFL Superstar is someone on a million plus dollars.
Others? :evil:
Don’t mean to be a wet blanket but it’s a bit depressing to think about. Seems to be driven a lot by the media while totally ignoring the state leagues 
Its quite simple to me, in the AFL they play AFL in the WAFL we play Australian rules football
i noticed now the commentators refer to a stat being “a world record”
have any of you heard that ?? i have heard it on more than one occassion. even paul roos said it one time. how can a player have a “world record” number of possessions? are they weighing up the stats in the aussierules swedish & canadian leagues .
we are americanizing everything. have no idea why we bother . bruce macevaney is a culprit too.
Australian Rules is the name of a sport.
AFL is a league in which the sport of Australian Rules is played.
Unfortunately & incorrectly the term AFL has become synonymous with the actual sport.
It is like calling the English Premier League, English Soccer.
Here I go - back on my old hobby horse. I’m sick of unimaginative commentators falling back on Americanisms because they don’t have the talent to keep it Australian. Examples - run with player, plays like a quarterback, deeeeefence, offffence, and my favourite one - kicks from the paint. FFS I’ve even heard Middlemass (or whatever his name is) use it in a WAFL game. Corben, go call a game with DHdwayne and his talentless mates and take your Americanisms with you.
MY RANT :evil:
Spot on… dont forget swingman,and pinch hitter, along with rookie.
Yeh I thought a swingman was a Utility player, another term I hate is half distance kick, what the F##K is a half distance kick for crying out loud?
Stacks on the Mill.
In the van
I am still yet to hear a better football commentator in Australia than the late great Frank Sparrow ..he & Percy could make a dull game sound like the end to the 2010 WAFL Grand Final ..will never forget some of his classic calls like “in goes Boucher out goes Moss”, “Swans come out of defence like the charge of the light brigade” and “the goal umpire says she looks good enough for me there’s another 6 pointer to the black & whites” 
Using the sport AFL as the yardstick it would appear that Association Football must have a huge number of names. For example, in Italy it would be Serie A, B etc, EPL in England,be La Liga etc. It is patent nonsense to call Aussie Rules AFL.
In WA: a behind is forced not rushed; we have fairest and best awards; footy jumpers despite the advertisement in yesterday’s West.
Apparently we don’t mark the ball anymore and there is now a new position of quarterback.
As BH said Frank Sparrow is without peer, in my opinion, as a radio broadcaster of Aussie Rules.
gentlemen, gentlemen you are missing the point, commentary is supposed to be like social media, everything needs to be covered, whose going out with who, why this is happening and the rewarding players for whatever they do, heaven forbid that commentators commented abt the game, called it as it happened and recognised the true stars of the game.
Sadly the Fitzmaurices, Johnsons and Sparrows have all gone and we are left with Celebrities doing what they do best celebrating themselves.
i cringe listening to any commentary these days. Sparrow was just brilliant i agree. nobody came close to him and never will.
i have twiddled the dial to abc these days. however they too have now become screamers and showboaters. they are all the same im afraid. football on the radio used to have this impression of professionalism and it felt the game was too serious to toy with. these days it just sounds like a circus. you can listen for 10 minutes, hear 3 goals get kicked, and never be told a score. they are all so self absorbed in their own voices and next jokes.
some may say we live in the past - we have good reason
Dick head Dwayne Is by far the worst of the lot. “He shorts it” WTF is that? Paul Roos the other night On the Couch said “he can take a good catch” at least 3 times. I wanted to smash the TV
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Excellent comment and oh so, so true.
How true Derrrrrwayne…“it doesnt get any better than this” absolute DICK