On Sunday 16 April 1967, the offices of the Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne's biggest circulating newspaper, were filled with journalists writing and talking about the previous day's Australian Rules football games. Foreign affairs writer Douglas Wilkie noted this dominance and the next day in the paper popular writer Keith Dunstan suggested an anti-football organisation. Those indifferent to the national game were brought out in the open. For more than three decades the Anti-Football League (AFL) poked fun at football culture and raised money for charity. A square red badge (symbolic of something that will not bounce) was issued to members, and the Wilkie Medal awarded annually to the person who had done least for football.


http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00068b.htm

Sign me up for one of those badges

http://antifootballleague.org/

The Anti-Football League is against just about all organised sport.

Keith Dunstan's biography is a pretty good read though.

Is this "group" fucking retarded?

Yes. The initial premise was that sport was overtaking more 'socially beneficial' pursuits like the arts. But it kind of lost its point as sport became more 'integral' in society.

This group became quite famous in Melbourne in its quest to diminish the influence of footy in
Melbourne.

They were able to recruit many members to the cause, and within 5 years of its establishment, it reached the all time high membership mark of 79.