MCG - Melbourne Cricket Ground - is the "Mekka" of AFL. HERE you can watch a short doco on its history as well as creation of the first rules of Aussie Football. Funily enough, there were only 10 in the old days, while now not only they number in hundreds but also are changed and amended each year.
The tapestry inside the MCG is quite interesting. It shows not only how cricket and AFL coexisted in history and shared the ground, but also the attempts of the English to teach cricket to Aboriginal Australians:
And below the clip we watched in class. It was one of the best games I've seen in my life, AND on top of that "my boys" won ;)
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