The AFL's International Cup, a two-week carnival involving 18 men's and seven women's teams from around the world, began on Sunday in Melbourne and will finish up with the grand final on August 19.
And no-one is more excited to be here than Brian Barrish, the media manager from TeamUSA, who has tweeted his delight at visiting the MCG, seeing his first AFL matches live and generally being in footy's heartland.
Barrish, who hails from Philadelphia, has been cataloguing his travels via Twitter. We discover that he loves the pies from PieFace, has taken a tram trip, and even been to Government House for an official AFLIC reception on Friday. For goodness' sake, he said he even loved Governor Linda Dessau's speech.
A Tweet showing him walking around the boundary line before the Essendon-Carlton match was captioned: "Walking I don't know how I didn't cry, but I didn't. I'll never forget this."
Later, from up in the stands, Barrish posted: "Dear @MCG, I've been waiting for this moment for 22 years. Thanks for making an American footy fan's dream come true," he tweeted.
The AFL International Cup is played every three years and the rules for player eligibility are strict: no expatriate Australians are eligible to play, and teams are to be made up solely of amateurs who must be nationals of the country they represent.
In the men's competition, those nations include China, Croatia, Fiji, France, Germany, India, Japan, Nauru, Sri Lanka and, obviously, the USA. The seven women's teams are: Canada, European Crusaders, Fiji, Great Britain, Ireland, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and USA.
Not even Barrish, though, could muster any enthusiasm for the North-Melbourne-Collingwood borefest at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, a contest which was an absolute stinker and has been labelled by many as the worst game of the season.
"I feel like if this #AFLNorthPies game were an AFLW game, they'd be calling for the league to be shut down," he tweeted.