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WELCOME TO THE HOME PAGE OF THE mUNICH kANGAROOS, ONE OF ONLY 2 aUSTRALIAN rULES fOOTBALL TEAMS BASED IN gERMANY AND THE ONLY ONE WHOSE THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING IS BASED UPON THE THEORIES OF eLIAS cANETTI, aLBERT cAMUS AND THE zEN-LIKE TEACHINGS OF aLEX jESAULINKO AND hAYDEN bUNTON.

sINCE ITS INTRODUCTION IN 1993, aUSTRALIAN rULES fOOTBALL HAS TOTALLY FAILED TO CAPTURE THE IMAGINATION OF THE gERMAN sPORTS GOING PUBLIC. wHEN THEY CONSIDER IT - IF THEY CONSIDER IT ALL - gERMANS TEND TO SEE aUSTRALIAN rULES FOOTBALL AS SOME PRIMITIVE, BARBARIC RITUAL - WHICH IN PART IT PROBABLY IS. tHIS CURSORY ASSESSMENT, HOWEVER, IGNORES THE POETIC AND LYRICAL ELEMENTS OF THE GAME AND FAILS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FULL ATHLETIC ARTISTRY OF THE CODE.

tHE mUNICH rOOS AND THEIR ARCH (AND ONLY TRUE) RIVALS THE fRANKFURT rEDBACKS HAVE ONE BELIEF IN COMMON - THAT aUSTRALIAN rULES fOOTBALL IS THE MOST DRAMATIC. CHALLENGING, SQUIRREL-GRIPPING SPORT EVER TO GRACE THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET eARTH.

wHEN NOT DRINKING IN ONE OF THEIR SPONSORS BARS, THE mUNICH rOOS ARE FIRED WITH AN ALMOST MISSIONARY ZEAL TO SHAKE THE gERMAN PUBLIC AWAKE FROM ITS APATHY AND BRING TO THEIR FULL ATTENTION THE PURE BEAUTY OF THE SPORT KNOW IN aUSTRALIAN AS SIMPLY "footy".

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