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    AFL – Modern Australia’s Religion and Failed Proselytizing in Japan

    If post-European colonization Australian has any sort of religion, there’s a good argument to be made that it could be the indigenous code of football, known as Australian Rules. For most Australians in the southern part of the country, footy provides them with the closest opportunity they will have to a tribal allegiance and generally loyalties toward their team are fervent and frequently location based even now (and almost exclusively the further you go back into the past). The Australian Football League (AFL), administer of the sport, to this day tries to spread the Aussie footy message overseas, but the…