I was an unemployed american diesel mechanic in 1983 looking for something to watch on TV when I spied a odd sporting event and was mesmerized. After a very short time watching this incredible sport, I was hooked and watched Australian Rules Football whenever I could. Fellows like Bartlett, Daicos, Doull among others put on amazing performances and the appearance of a magician by the name of Gary Abblett cemented my amazement of just how spectacular footy was as a world class sport. I told anyone that would listen the basic gist of the game and how tough, fit and skilled these Australian athletes were. For many years I did not barrack for any team in particular, but for the sport as a whole. To be fair, footy is not ALWAYS played in a pleasing fashion, but far more often AFL games contain enough exciting and skilled moments to be truly entertaining no matter where on the ladder the sides are perched. I did lose touch with the AFL for a number of years for a variety of reasons in the 1990's but in the mid 2000's I rediscovered the sport and eventually (well before their current run of success) I began to barrack for the Hawthorn Hawks (lucky me) and, obviously, I haven't been disappointed in that choice! Seeing this video I just had to relive the earliest years of my discovery of the greatness of VFL footy! Thanks for allowing me to recapture those moments! I haven't seen most of these images in over 30 years. Awesome.
@johnsmith-cv1lp4 жыл бұрын
@MANCHESTER UNITED hows 14th on the table going 4 u ? this man tells his own story and u answer with the same old crap. guess u feel tough tuff behind your keyboard but everyone thinks youre a softcock. gutless.
@rickydarcilover55814 жыл бұрын
john smith . He’s a sick bastard. Just a brain-dead troll is too stupid to realise that we would rather watch paint dry than Watch his boring shit, where someone scores a goal once every three years
@medullaoblongata96704 жыл бұрын
@MANCHESTER UNITED Hi old Buddy!. Why are you still trolling other football codes and posting negative and ‘intolerance themed’ remarks on them?. Why are you still using all capital letters that are considered shouting and rude etiquette on web based forums?. Have you informed MUFC yet, that you are using their name and FC logo to represent yourself (as your handle) and your feed?. Have you informed your followers yet, that you are trolling and are considered a ‘serial pest’ on other football code feeds?. Why do you feel the insatiable need for this negative attention that you obviously crave?. Yes ‘Soccer’ as you call it is an absolutely great and popular game, however you are not representing this sport, that you yourself profess to love in a positive and tolerant manner. Finally there aren’t any football ‘Bogan’ states (as you call them) in Australia, we have a rich and diversified demographic of ‘footy’ followers from the unemployed though to the billionaires and the factory worker to the physicist, so please get your facts in order. It is now probably an appropriate time to get some professional advice and hopefully a satisfactory outcome for the help you so obviously and desperately need.
@medullaoblongata96704 жыл бұрын
@MISTERComaToes Great story mate. Shame you follow the Hawks though. Go Tigers!. 👍
@jamesgames88003 жыл бұрын
@M soccer fans always ruin things, tall poppies the lot of ya.
@Skoora2 жыл бұрын
This was my decade for sure. Was tough being a Collingwood fan in the 80’s. Bastards finally won, one year after I moved to the U.S. in ‘89. 😂
@timmyhexham960311 ай бұрын
Phil Carmen saved Sturt in the SANFL. God bless Fabulous Phil
@robinaboy Жыл бұрын
Footy was better back then.
@dkb20803 ай бұрын
i agree afl these days is crap afl players are not the real football players now days they are just athletes who just do beep test and jumps 's and run fast with no skill game is boring to watch you will never see another gary ablett snr Tony Lockett and so many old players from the pass now they just play zones like its the olympics
@jarradbaker82003 жыл бұрын
Back when footy was a real mans game!!! Not the sooky lala shit we see now... ahhh the memories
@elliott8723 жыл бұрын
Aye
@malcolmlee29354 жыл бұрын
This is footy at it's best, the way it should be played today, no bullshit,just fucking hard
@sivii9113 жыл бұрын
Still pretty hard today mate
@dkb20803 ай бұрын
@@sivii911 🤣🤣🤣🤣 its even worse today
@redwandennaoui45083 жыл бұрын
MEN OF FOOTBALL!
@slimeperview3 жыл бұрын
After watching that I reckon Carman was a bit stiff. Looked like the umpire provoked him by getting right up in his face & shouting.
@machiavelli9910 жыл бұрын
Daicos 14.59 in PF 1981 when scores were tight, what a magician!
@whiteshadow593 жыл бұрын
Missed this decade. Started liking footy in '92
@MarkWhich Жыл бұрын
Started watching footy in mid '89, barely even got a taste of 80s football.
@confrantzeskos10 жыл бұрын
Daicos. What a genius.
@hamishphistopholoes65402 жыл бұрын
@M Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over..
@Carrots4411 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload!!
@Kevinduddo8 жыл бұрын
10:21 the VFL predicted 'Choppergate'
@smoothbeak3 жыл бұрын
Tony Locket's 100 goals so special that even the American's had to bring out their flag apparently!
@mattydarrigrand94745 жыл бұрын
My favorite grand final was in that decade.
@1969cmp3 жыл бұрын
1989 ?
@Magpie_Mark923 жыл бұрын
1984?
@planetx15952 жыл бұрын
1980?
@michaelwilson48334 жыл бұрын
Leigh Matthews coward punches a Dees player from behind at 21:00 & his Dees teammates gang up on Matthews to bash the shit out of him. Not many Hawks teammates came to support Matthews either.
@rideonpostman3 жыл бұрын
That was noted
@mufc3832 жыл бұрын
Soccer is the greatest and by far the most important sport on Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Soccer is the universal language that every nation on this planet loves. Afl is massive in 4 out of 6 Australian states. Still and always will be a minority sport in Qld and NSW. Soccer will be the number 1 sport in Australia by 2050 and every suburb will love soccer and every suburb will have its own soccer club gfjd
@hamishphistopholoes65402 жыл бұрын
@@mufc383 Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over..
@liftunwop2 жыл бұрын
Hi mate, there are fewer than 240 countries mate. Thanks friend
@MrBrendanRoy7 жыл бұрын
1980 The year of the Tigers!
@Antipodean3311 жыл бұрын
That kick by Geoff "Ferring" not sure on spelling @9:04 must be over 100 yards, what a monster kick, biggest i've ever seen
@mufc3832 жыл бұрын
Soccer is the greatest and by far the most important sport on Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Soccer is the universal language that every nation on this planet loves. Afl is massive in 4 out of 6 Australian states. Still and always will be a minority sport in Qld and NSW. Soccer will be the number 1 sport in Australia by 2050 and every suburb will love soccer and every suburb will have its own soccer club dhfd
@hamishphistopholoes65402 жыл бұрын
@@mufc383 Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over..
@liftunwop2 жыл бұрын
Hi there @MU FC Please be notified that there are fewer than 240 countries. thank you mate
@simonirwin98992 жыл бұрын
@@mufc383 has helped my inability to sleep
@Mr1triton10 жыл бұрын
This was when footy was footy. Great players, great marks, all crap now
@ReaLzEdits10 жыл бұрын
lol get out of here. i dont know how any of these people were even called "athletes" and oh what a sick goal....... jogging around and loosing a guy to kick a goal from like 35 metres out and just gets it into the goal sqare..
@jamessquire18 жыл бұрын
You are absolutely spot on. I thought I was getting old and cranky until I started watching some older footage on KZfaq and realised today's game is rubbish. We had the best of it, my friend.
@MisterPolitical15 жыл бұрын
the vfl comp in the 80's are better than anytime in the afl era since 1990
@MisterPolitical15 жыл бұрын
the arl rugby league comp from the 90s til today were crap as well
@MisterPolitical15 жыл бұрын
@@jamessquire1 yeah in my day footy was a shithole 100%
@ArchibaldBagge2 ай бұрын
Those shorts were horribly uncomfortable. Made of nasty cheap nylon they were constantly giving you a wedge, and they were so tight, apparently to ease movement, they were embarrassing to wear.
@Hudell2007911 жыл бұрын
1:02:00 those old ducks are still cheering on the fenceline for the swans : )
@DerhamPaul-vo8fr5 ай бұрын
They were tough in the 80s wow
@AlonsoRules5 жыл бұрын
Carlton fans these days probably still reminisce about the late 70's early 80's dynasty
@JC4.804 жыл бұрын
I haven’t experienced winning in my life with the blues bc I was born same year we won the first wooden spoon of our franchise
@Antipodean3311 жыл бұрын
Oh man that Carlton V North Melboure exhibition match in England must've blown the poms away. Great marks and play and massive hard hitting fights. Those were the days of real hard nuts and great players
@taitrennie90995 жыл бұрын
Lovin the shorts
@rideonpostman3 жыл бұрын
Where is the glorious backing tune from? Da da da da da
@Al_Bundy_19668 жыл бұрын
35:26 that was surely a goal? 35:40 Muir got 12 weeks for that? The Carlton player was coming at him to clean him up and you could almost call it self defense. Some of the king hits we'd seen earlier looked much worse. 56:01 Loved the commentator's take, "that was fair" Would cop 5 weeks today.
@johncena12677 жыл бұрын
Al Bundy a
@StFidjnr10 жыл бұрын
@ 45:13 HEY! says Ray ''Slug'' Jordon sandy roberts said "OH NO!"
@jimpikoulis67266 жыл бұрын
Lou Richards.... TV ringside
@DerhamPaul-vo8fr5 ай бұрын
Wow
@JayRiemenschneider4 ай бұрын
What is VFL? is it the same as today's AFL? Used to watch this in the 80s in the US, seems like they used to get the ball down the field with 'marks?' more back then. And the guys in the white jackets confirming points or goals were a howl
@JohnJohn-zn8ib2 ай бұрын
Much better quality football back in the 80s than today, today the skills and quality is poor.
@JayRiemenschneider2 ай бұрын
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib it's that way with most of the American sports too. Crushed by money, overexposure, steroids and PEDs
@JohnJohn-zn8ib2 ай бұрын
@@JayRiemenschneider yes, egos before the sport.
@lachlansellers18383 жыл бұрын
1:03:47 play it a 0.75
@NickSamon3 жыл бұрын
GARRY LYON ON THE STRETCHER!
@i-33073 жыл бұрын
They could kick long and straight in those days. What happened to the modern ere?
@bossleonie76583 жыл бұрын
There was no Brownlow in 1905
@brendanhartzer5712 Жыл бұрын
He was meant to say 1965 when the last tie was in the Brownlow
@andrewpenn2952 жыл бұрын
Is that Dennis Cometti at the start?
@planetx15952 жыл бұрын
Sandy Roberts
@sexobscura7 жыл бұрын
acquired immune defficien
@DerhamPaul-vo8fr5 ай бұрын
Collingwood yea
@The_Bit_Player3 жыл бұрын
How weak was that Umpire? He only pushed him over.
@Jimmy911ism Жыл бұрын
I think he got 5 years. Another bloke head butts an umpire (far worse than a push) and only gets 20 weeks.
@lachiegumley77943 жыл бұрын
Michael roach was my pe teachers dad
@rendlebury15204 жыл бұрын
1:10:22 imagine if that had of happened today
@stevesalkas9128 Жыл бұрын
1984 was Dennis banks mark of year ch sevens mark on the winner on abc and sun it was bank's
@paulgenis955210 жыл бұрын
@ 2.50 umpiring not hearing the siren what a lot of bullock of course he did bloody maggots denying Collingwood again
@ryana8174 Жыл бұрын
Didn't Kevin Bartlet play 14572 games?
@fireknight95510 ай бұрын
14 thousand games?
@fireknight95510 ай бұрын
He played 403 games I think
@scottbennier1335 Жыл бұрын
Matthews was a dog 🐕……. anyone who actually thinks this is how football should be played has no idea……. Matthews should have got 10 games but instead he’s lauded as one of the greatest of all time. Neil Balme, Carl Dietrich, Dermott Brereton, David Rhys-Jones all 🐕…… with trial by video on every game….. the acts of these individuals and like would have had them thrown out of the game……
@PeachTristan2 жыл бұрын
Bunch of thugs with some anger management issues
@Tysonius5 жыл бұрын
56:31
@jonburrows9816 Жыл бұрын
1:22:16
@zakmartin91823 жыл бұрын
Collingwood should so be the greatest team of all time