With the AFL grand final only days away, a story in The Age today featured a group which calls itself the Anti-Football League (or AFL for short, get it).

The group boasts on its website that members are ``united by the common understanding that there is more to life than the ability to kick a pigskin between the two white posts''.

Well dah, I, as a footy fan, could have told them that.

Really, a time when many of us are enjoying one of best times of the year for sport, why should a group of negative Nevilles be given this exposure. I guess I'm the fool, I've also given them more exposure than they do not deserve.

So you don't like football, what do you want, a bloomin' tickertape parade down Swanston St? Here's a newsflash, everyone has something they don't like, it's called a free society. Personally I can't stand people driving at 90km/h down a 100km/h road, but you don't see me starting a group for it - it would be a waste of my valuable time.

The members of the Anti-Football League should, like those people who talk down the Olympics, just go away quietly and let everyone else enjoy the moment. There is no need to broadcast to the world that you don't like football.

Instead of highlighting what you hate, how about focusing on the positives of life? There are alternatives to football like movies, music and painting, promote them, instead of talking down footy.