I can't speak for AFL games, but in the US, there is an atmosphere when attending a football game, particularly a college game.  And, at the game, while you don't have the benefits of instant replay, or some color guy spewing arcane trivia about the players, you also don't have to listen to some guy pitching a cure for ED, or the advantages of the latest brew.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oem60yvtUY

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@poddster wrote:

 here is an interesting study  now tell me again that my chosen sport is dangerous

 

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/reports/2007/injcat103.pdf

 

 

 

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More people participate therefore more people vbecome injured

More people participate in Australian Football in Australia than in any other football code. A total of 539,526 registered participants played football in 2005, up from 516,043 in 2004 - a 4.6 per cent rise.

Going into the second-leg of Australia ’s World Cup Qualifier against Uruguay, Soccer maintains its position as Australia ’s most popular team sport. Soccer was played regularly or occasionally by almost 1.1 million Australians during the 12 month period from July 2004 to June 2005 which is 7% of the population aged 14 and above.

In 2008, a total of 423,584 Australians participated in rugby league

In 2005 about 350 000 australians participated in rugby union

http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2011/09/aeds-saving-golfers-lives/

Your sport is much more dangerous than football could ever be

Another US study two years ago found that over 3,000 golfers die on American courses every year due to cardiac arrests, with the third and 18th holes proving to be the deadliest locations.

An internet search for ‘golf club’ and ‘heart attack’ in the UK shows the problem is not confined to one country. Ruthin-Pwllglas GC in Wales, for example, has seen two members die on the course in recent years; the club captain of Sundridge Park GC in Kent suffered a fatal attack on his course this summer; the KP Club in York and Nazeing GC in Essex have both also experienced deaths recently. So what can be done?

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@poddster wrote:

 

 

In 2004–05, there were 14,147 hospitalisations resulting from injuries received while playing some form of football. This represented 30.6% of all sports and leisure-related hospitalisations during this period.

 

 

Not violent well where did the injuries come from ?

 

14,147 hospitalisations  in a single year???

 

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How many deaths....just in the US will do Poddy... up around the 3000 mark???

More elderly people play golf so heart attacks will be more prevalent.  On the other hand golf keeps a lot of elderly people fitter and healthier too.

Golf doesnt cripple young people for life like football.

To be fair colic, when I look around the people playing at my golf course their average age would be well above those playing at the local footy oval.

I remember seeing something a while ago that more people die playing bowls than any other sport  (but acknowledge that may be an urban myth)

I should probably mention, I'm a life long Rugby Union fan.  Met my OH at the rugby and all my sons played.  Dyed in the wool Brumbies fan here  

Golf doesnt cripple young people for life like football.

No sport can cripple you if all you do is watch it on TV or at the stadum. Most people who go nuts over football would only watch it and never go outside and actually play it. I don't like football at all, but i would sooner play it than watch others playing it.

Now i do like Nascar, and would jump at the chance to climb into a sponcered car and race.

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@idlewhile wrote:

More elderly people play golf so heart attacks will be more prevalent.  On the other hand golf keeps a lot of elderly people fitter and healthier too.

 

Golf doesnt cripple young people for life like football.

 

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but 3000 participants young and old died playing golf in the US for whatever reason

How many participants young and old died playing football?

on the other hand Football keeps a lot of young people fit and healthy too