We are appalled that the AFL has seen fit to schedule a football game on Good Friday (without any public debate and only a couple of journalist articles over a two year period). The AFL has decided to disrespect Christian religions by scheduling a game on Good Friday in the 2017 season. Good Friday is one of only two sacrosanct days in the Christian calendar and in almost 150 years of AFL football the game has never been scheduled on Good Friday, until 2017.

The AFL has games scheduled on Thursday night, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday. Apart from the commercial / money-making reason, you would have to wonder what the AFL will gain from this disrespectful decision?

We call upon all persons who have a Christian belief or a respect for Christianity to unite and support this petition against the AFL’s scheduling of a football game on Good Friday, and to boycott attending the game, any coverage of the game and also boycott advertisers’ products that are advertised during the TV coverage on Good Friday.

In addition to boycotting the Good Friday game, we call upon all persons to forward an email to the AFL at general@afl.com.au notifying them of your disappointment and feelings of disrespect.