The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

However, a bid for an Tasmanian AFL team is a popular topic among football fans.

Robbie had originally wanted to establish the franchise in Philadelphia, but AFL commissioner Joe Foss suggested courting Miami due to its warm climate, growing population, and lack of a football team.

The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world.

The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) ( in which they are known as the Power ) and the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) ( in which they are known as the Magpies ).< ref >

They also played defense, as indicated by their professional football record 49 pass interceptions in 1961, and featured AFL Rookie of the Year defensive end Earl Faison.

In his 8 AFL seasons, he had thrown more touchdown passes ( 182 ) than any other professional football quarterback during that time.

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The Western Bulldogs is an Australian rules football club that plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

Immediately after Hird retired from playing football, there was much speculation as to whether he would be interested in a coaching role at a club in the AFL, but primarily the Essendon Football Club.

Following Hird's retirement as a player from the Bombers at the end of the 2007 AFL season, he became a commentator and football analyst for Australian rules football on Fox Sports, a position which he held until he began his coaching career at the end of 2010.

For some time, it was unclear whether Carey would return to AFL football, but after the end of the 2002 season and a 12 month absence from football, Carey was signed up by the Adelaide Crows, where he played for the next two seasons.

During the AFL pre-season a number of Melbourne Australian Rules football League and Association teams run their players up the steps to promote team fitness.

The Arena Football League ( AFL ) is the highest level of professional indoor American football in the United States.

Like parent AFL, the AF2 played using the same arena football rules and style of play.

The NFL's Houston Texans revived the name of the WFL's franchise for that city ; " Texans " has also been used by an NFL Dallas team in 1952 – the remnants of which became the Baltimore / Indianapolis Colts, by an AFL Dallas team in the early 1960s – who became the Kansas City Chiefs, by an arena football team in Dallas in the early 1990s, and by a CFL San Antonio team for one year in the 1990s.

Over the next 15 years, he studied the last two challengers to the NFL's dominance of pro football — the AFL and the World Football League.

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ), based in Melbourne, Victoria.

The AFL, currently with 18 member clubs, is the sport's elite competition and the most powerful body and continues to seek further opportunities to expand into new markets.

It is the most successful AFL club of the last decade ( 2000 – 2009 ), having appeared in four consecutive AFL Grand Finals between 2001 and 2004, winning three premierships ( 2001, 2002 and 2003 ).

Essendon has won 16 VFL / AFL premierships which, along with Carlton, is the most of any club in the AFL.

The song, as with all other AFL clubs, is played prior to every match and at the conclusion of matches where the team is victorious.

He is the mascot for Essendon in AFL mascot manor.

Geelong is the most successful club since the AFL began in 1990, with three premierships and seven grand final appearances.

Besides the bid for an AFL club which was passed over in favour of a second Queenland team, despite several major local businesses and the Premier pioneering for a club, there is also a Hobart bid for entry into the A-League.

* Ian Stewart – Australian Rules Footballer who played 127 games for St. Kilda including the clubs first ( and thus far only ) Premiership in 1966, he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame with legend status

* Peter Hudson – Australian Rules Footballer, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history, when playing for Glenorchy he kicked 616 goals in 81 games with some records stating he instead kicked 769 goals ; he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame

In some formal language studies, ( e. g. AFL Theory ) a variation on the Kleene star operation called the Kleene plus is used.

The merger is a result of 20 years of effort put forth by both the AFL and CIO presidents, George Meany and Walter Reuther.

This loss of members is in large part due to the 1957 removal of the Teamsters ' Union who were longtime members of the AFL.

* In Australia, the AFL Grand Final is played on the last Saturday of September.

This allowed the AFL to grow very strong with a diverse set of members.

McGuire had to sacrifice his on-air commitments including hosting The AFL Footy Show and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire ?, as well as AFL commentary, for what turned out to be a very short term tenure.

Some, like the Labor and Working-Class History Association, are truly independent organizations that wish to work very closely with the AFL – CIO and promote its mission and goals.

* On Saturday, February 5, 2005, in a Week 2 home game against their division rival, the Grand Rapids Rampage, Quarterback John Dutton would throw a franchise-best eight touchdowns in a 72-56 win, yet this was overshadowed by Rampage Quarterback Michael Bishop becoming the very first player in AFL history to run for 100 yards in a single game.

In a very few cases early in the AFL's history, state and local bodies defied AFL policy or chose to disaffiliate over policy disputes.

Arena football is played under very different conditions, and the AFL had its own minor league, af2, until 2009.

During the mid-2000s, several NFL owners at least partially owned arena football teams, such as Jerry Jones ( Dallas ), Arthur Blank ( Atlanta ), Bud Adams ( Tennessee ), Tom Benson ( New Orleans ), and Pat Bowlen ( Denver ), but very rarely did they ever promote or demote any players between the AFL and NFL, due in part to significant differences in the playing schedules and the style of play between outdoor and indoor football.

He was a very active labor organizer in Puerto Rico and was often arrested and jailed for his activities, and was considered American Federation of Labor ( AFL ) president Samuel Gompers ' ally on the island.

The AFL acted in a very brutal and scorched-earth fashion which quickly alienated the local people.

The Blues lost only one game ( by five points on a very muddy ground against Essendon ) for the year, a record equalled but never betean subsequently in VFL / AFL history.