Top stuff: Aussie blogger makes Jarryd Hayne’s debut a must-read event
Sep 15, 2015 at 10:33 AM
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What is the Australian equivalent of the Pulitzer? Is there such a thing? If so, we have our clear winner, sports blogger category.Take a deep breath, dear readers. What you are about to read is not of this earth country, and it's absolutely the new-journalism wave of the future as it pertains to NFL writing. I pray, anyway.The Aussies have been going stark mad over former rugby leaguer Jarryd Hayne, who was that country's equivalent of Tim Tebow, Tom Brady and LeBron James rolled into one before he pursued — and so far has shockingly impressed in — a career in American football.So Australian journalist Matt Cleary took the pilot's seat for a ride on the Hayne Plane in his NFL debut, and it was absolutely smashing. (Cleary, that is, not Hayne, who was fairly meh, to be brutally frank.)[Yahoo Fantasy Football: Still not too late to sign up for a league]Cleary live blogged the San Francisco 49ers' game against the Minnesota Vikings Monday night, and his game updates made a brutally awful football spectacle absolutely must-follow action. Like, I found myself watching his blog and not the game most of the night.For those used to a certain, oh, Americanized form of football...
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