Geelong wins national football championship
So what, I hear you chorus. Who cares that Geelong has won the title
as the Australian Rules football championship? However, this bragging
is not the purpose of this email.
The ground that the football game is played on is slightly variable in
size but it has all of its markings in metres. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Australian_football
This means that the sports commentators have continuously available
references that they use to describe each game. The metric influence
is continuous, especially the two arcs marked 50 metres from each
goal. This has had the effect of making the descriptions wholly metric.
I doubt that the transition to metric in Australian Rules Football
would have happened so quickly without the constant metric reference
lines on every ground built into the rules of the game itself. Perhaps
there are some thoughts here for other metrication transitions!
The game, today went for 100 minutes, but if you would like to get a
flavor of the action there is a 10 minute sample at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOvSv9Q1Gk&feature=fvw
Geelong are the only team to wear horizontal stripes of navy blue
and white – watch for the Gary Ablett goal at 5:15.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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