Episode 25: The Australian Football League - Making Its Mark Since 1858

Aussie Rules football is old. In fact, it could stake a claim to being the oldest continually existing code of football in the world, and in the Melbourne Football Club boasts the oldest professional football team of any code of football on the planet, predating association football's oldest pro club Notts County by four years.

But the history of similar ball games on the continent go back even further than that, to the indigenous people of Australia who were leaping to catch high balls long before any code of football was dreamt of, and whose impact continues to be felt for the better on the game today. As rich a history as any sport we know.

And now, Ben and Jack want in. Ben is backing Hawthorn, but Jack is being indecisive. Does he go fo ...