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AFL bought Israel Folau to get NRL fans watching AFL. They made the choice though of signing Folau before State of Origin and NRL was over. So now all the AFL fans curious about Folau will watch the State of Origin and NRL.
So if the Australian football theory that a person can instantly be spellbound by watching another code holds true, then all the AFL fans will be NRL fans before Folau has been able to get the NRL fans to watch AFL.
More likely is that no footballer – no matter how much of a star – can make one iota of difference to the popularity of either code.
Have all AFL fans become NFL fans in the wake of AFL stars playing NFL? Have little AFL kiddies across Australia forsaken AFL to take up NFL?
I didn’t think so.
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