Excelsior Springs welcomes G’day, Aussie exchange student

Excelsior Springs welcomes G’day, Aussie exchange student

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Maybe I’m not as sick of football as I had thought.Or maybe I’m more of an Australophile than I had thought.As you’ll recall, I recently wrote a column expressing my desire to watch baseball of the non-Major League Baseball variety. One of my reasons was fatigue from following college football. Another was my fatigue from following pro football. But after streaming a few videos, I find myself wanting to engage with the gridiron game again – and wanting to explore Australian culture again.Around the time Philadelphia hammered Kansas City in Super Bowl LIX, I streamed a video posted by Isaac Parks on “Isaac Punts,” his YouTube channel. A former college punter, Parks makes commentary videos about pro and college football, with an emphasis on punting and placekicking.The video by Parks that piqued my interest is titled “HowAustralian Punters Broke the NFL,” an examination of how Australian punters have changed punting in pro f...

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