AFL - Most Watched Sport for Gen Y in Australia

[Beaussie]

More proof of the dominance of Australian Football in this great country of ours. The AFL is a marketeers dream sporting code.

Goggle box still bigger than Google for Gen Y
Clare Kermond
June 25, 2012 Read later

THEY can't live without the internet, love Facebook and the footy, and have plenty of cash to splash.

Australia's 16- to 30-year-olds have about $62 billion to spend each year, two-thirds of that on whatever they like

Facebook was the top-ranked website, Australian rules football the most watched sport and Commonwealth Bank the favourite bank.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-an ... z1ynMOljT3

[piesman2011]

I thought that the claim from the RL community was that more Gen Y's watched RL and that Aussie rules was an old mans game. Now I am confused. This survey must have not taken into consideration rural Australia.