1965: Australian Rules draws bigger crowds in Melbourne than Rugby in Sydney. What? Sydney Sam would say, thats not football, mate, its aerial ping-pong. — , The Yarns of Billy Borker page 43, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, 1985, , ISBN 0-424-00113-6.
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