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Anti-Football League : ウィキペディア英語版 | Anti-Football League
The Anti-Football League is an Australian organisation that pokes fun at the obsession with Australian rules football. It was founded by Melbourne journalist Keith Dunstan in 1967. ==Origins== The Anti-Football League was created in response to a remark made by journalist Douglas Wilkie in the offices of ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' on Sunday 16 April 1967. On that day, the building was filled with sports writers and ex-footballers – along with their ghost writers – preparing the Monday edition of the football round-up for the weekend. Amongst the relentless discussions pertaining to football, Wilkie, the ''Suns foreign correspondent made a remark to Dunstan that he had had enough. "There must be a better life than this. Couldn’t we start an anti football organisation?"〔Keith Dunstan, ''No Brains At All: An Autobiography'', 1990, page 193〕 Dunstan suggested that a badge should be devised, so that League members could recognise each other and intelligent non-football discussion could take place. The badge was to be in the shape of a red cube, symbolic of an object that would not bounce. The firm of K.G. Luke and Company – which was chaired by Sir Kenneth Luke, the president of the Victorian Football League – volunteered to make the badges,〔()〕 and by July 1967, 5,600 of them had been sold.〔''The Sun News-Pictorial'', 13 July 1967, page 9〕 The Anti-Football League was known unambiguously as the AFL when it was established. This became ambiguous in 1990, when the Victorian Football League changed its name to the Australian Football League.
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