A Texas man had an engineering job lined up, but then an opportunity came knocking from across the globe. Mason Cox tells Jon Wertheim how he became an unlikely Australian rules football star.
Don't be fooled by the name. They call Australian rules football"footy," which sounds cute and precious. But footy is a sport that makes American football look like a quilting bee. It's a game of almost cartoonishly violent collisions—without the benefit of pads. It features non-stop trash talk and is played on a field practically the size of a speedway.
You think the football— made of cowhide by the way—travels in strange trajectories? get a load of Cox's story. Darcy Moore: Oh. You could comfortably say one in a million.Darcy Moore: Because there's so many talented players all around the country that just never make it. And the odds of succeeding are just so-- it's so difficult. Like any professional sport, there are so many things seen and unseen that make it really hard to succeed. Jon Wertheim: No knowledge.
Marcus Smart: He's always had a little spunk, a little fire to him. He had moments where, you know, you'd be like,"Mason, like, wow. I didn't know you had that in you. Like, is everything okay?"Marcus Smart: Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Craig McRae is now the team's head coach. In 2014, he was the head of development and assigned to tutor Cox.
Cox made his big-league debut in April 2016 on the hallowed ground of the MCG…an annual rivalry game held on Anzac day, a national holiday.
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