Geelong played Hawthorn in a football match. Geelong won. A newspaper journalist who wrote a match report used an apostrophe incorrectly. Star player Gary Ablett is well known as an evangelical Christian. Hawthorn supporters booed him. While some commentators suggested that this was because he staged for a free kick in the previous game that these two teams played, others said the reason for it was that he liked rugby star Israel Folau's controversial Instagram post. After a meeting with league officials, Ablett unliked the post.
If so, then it seems that this is the result of the AFL's influence over millions of football fans around Australia. In recent years, it has thrown its weight behind trendy political causes such as legalising same sex marriage, pushing the normalisation of homosexuality through a gay pride round, and making it racist to criticise players from racial or ethnic minorities.
As well as a sporting organisation, it is also a a political activist group, and a self appointed arbiter of morality and ethics.
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