The Electrifying Eighties

[@queenofyeay]

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-cv1lp]

@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.

[@rickydarcilover5581]

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

[@medullaoblongata9670]

@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.

[@medullaoblongata9670]

@MISTERComaToes Great story mate. Shame you follow the Hawks though. Go Tigers!. 👍

[@jamesgames8800]

@M soccer fans always ruin things, tall poppies the lot of ya.

[@Skoora]

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. 😂

[@melindavondeling3195]

I like the 80's / 90 videos they are very amazing videos i was born in the 80's so it brings back memories i like the 90's videos my favourite moment in the 90's is the collingwood premireship of the 1990 grand final and the 1993 1992 grand final of west coast and in the demise and farewell to Fitzroy i liked that team in the 80's the demise of my favourite gernsey no 35 peter diacos i always liked peter diacios

[@redwandennaoui4508]

MEN OF FOOTBALL!

[@timmyhexham9603]

Phil Carmen saved Sturt in the SANFL. God bless Fabulous Phil

[@robinaboy]

Footy was better back then.

[@dkb2080]

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

[@machiavelli99]

Daicos 14.59 in PF 1981 when scores were tight, what a magician!

[@confrantzeskos]

Daicos. What a genius.

[@hamishphistopholoes6540]

@M Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over..

[@malcolmlee2935]

This is footy at it's best, the way it should be played today, no bullshit,just fucking hard

[@sivii911]

Still pretty hard today mate

[@dkb2080]

@@sivii911 🤣🤣🤣🤣 its even worse today

[@Carrots44]

Thanks for the upload!!

[@mattydarrigrand9474]

My favorite grand final was in that decade.

[@1969cmp]

1989 ?

[@Magpie_Mark92]

1984?

[@planetx1595]

1980?

[@whiteshadow59]

Missed this decade. Started liking footy in '92

[@MarkWhich]

Started watching footy in mid '89, barely even got a taste of 80s football.

[@Antipodean33]

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

[@MrBrendanRoy]

1980 The year of the Tigers!

[@Antipodean33]

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

[@mufc383]

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

[@hamishphistopholoes6540]

@@mufc383 Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over..

[@liftunwop]

Hi there @MU FC Please be notified that there are fewer than 240 countries. thank you mate

[@simonirwin9899]

​@@mufc383 has helped my inability to sleep

[@Kevinduddo]

10:21 the VFL predicted 'Choppergate'

[@michaelwilson4833]

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.

[@rideonpostman]

That was noted

[@mufc383]

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

[@hamishphistopholoes6540]

@@mufc383 Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over..

[@liftunwop]

Hi mate, there are fewer than 240 countries mate. Thanks friend

[@rideonpostman]

Where is the glorious backing tune from? Da da da da da

[@Hudell20079]

1:02:00 those old ducks are still cheering on the fenceline for the swans : )

[@slimeperview]

After watching that I reckon Carman was a bit stiff. Looked like the umpire provoked him by getting right up in his face & shouting.

[@smoothbeak]

Tony Locket's 100 goals so special that even the American's had to bring out their flag apparently!

[@Whylivere]

Back when footy was a real mans game!!! Not the sooky lala shit we see now... ahhh the memories

[@elliott872]

Aye

[@StFidjnr]

@ 45:13 HEY! says Ray ''Slug'' Jordon sandy roberts said "OH NO!"

[@taitrennie9099]

Lovin the shorts

[@DerhamPaul-vo8fr]

They were tough in the 80s wow

[@Al_Bundy_1966]

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.

[@johncena1267]

Al Bundy a

[@andrewpenn295]

Is that Dennis Cometti at the start?

[@planetx1595]

Sandy Roberts

[@lachlansellers1838]

1:03:47 play it a 0.75

[@NickSamon]

GARRY LYON ON THE STRETCHER!

[@AlonsoRules]

Carlton fans these days probably still reminisce about the late 70's early 80's dynasty

[@JC4.72]

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

[@i-3307]

They could kick long and straight in those days. What happened to the modern ere?

[@ArchibaldBagge]

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.

[@DerhamPaul-vo8fr]

Wow

[@JayRiemenschneider]

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-zn8ib]

Much better quality football back in the 80s than today, today the skills and quality is poor.

[@JayRiemenschneider]

@@JohnJohn-zn8ib it's that way with most of the American sports too. Crushed by money, overexposure, steroids and PEDs

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

@@JayRiemenschneider yes, egos before the sport.

[@jimpikoulis6726]

Lou Richards.... TV ringside

[@Mr1triton]

This was when footy was footy. Great players, great marks, all crap now

[@ReaLzEdits]

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..

[@jamessquire1]

You are absolutely spot on. I thought I was getting old and cranky until I started watching some older footage on KZbin and realised today's game is rubbish. We had the best of it, my friend.

[@MisterPolitical1]

the vfl comp in the 80's are better than anytime in the afl era since 1990

[@MisterPolitical1]

the arl rugby league comp from the 90s til today were crap as well

[@MisterPolitical1]

@@jamessquire1 yeah in my day footy was a shithole 100%

[@ryana8174]

Didn't Kevin Bartlet play 14572 games?

[@fireknight955]

14 thousand games?

[@fireknight955]

He played 403 games I think

[@bossleonie7658]

There was no Brownlow in 1905

[@brendanhartzer5712]

He was meant to say 1965 when the last tie was in the Brownlow

[@rendlebury1520]

1:10:22 imagine if that had of happened today

[@DerhamPaul-vo8fr]

Collingwood yea

[@lachiegumley7794]

Michael roach was my pe teachers dad

[@Tysonius]

56:31

[@The_Bit_Player]

How weak was that Umpire? He only pushed him over.

[@Jimmy911ism]

I think he got 5 years. Another bloke head butts an umpire (far worse than a push) and only gets 20 weeks.

[@paulgenis9552]

@ 2.50 umpiring not hearing the siren what a lot of bullock of course he did bloody maggots denying Collingwood again

[@stevesalkas9128]

1984 was Dennis banks mark of year ch sevens mark on the winner on abc and sun it was bank's

[@brettbrett9973]

In that time the SANFL was just as good .If not better. Looked better as the VFL had bigger crowds , which they should have had due to a population 4 x. Then the Vics went broke and called upon the others. As far as footy is concerned , a wrong decision. How bad was the MCG then. Always a terrible surface.

[@jonburrows9816]

1:22:16

[@scottbennier1335]

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……

[@PeachTristan]

Bunch of thugs with some anger management issues

[@zakmartin9182]

Collingwood should so be the greatest team of all time

[@jamiekelly6851]

Why

[@sunriseboy4837]

Now "that" was AFL; unlike this brand of netball/keepings off that's played now. The players only have to take three steps and the female 'trainers' are fawning all over them giving them a drink...for God's sake?! When Matthews decked Bruns, what wasn't said, was what Bruns had said to Mathews just two minutes earlier down in the goal square. We don't get what we deserve, Brunsy...we get what's coming to us!!! You saw Francis Burke cop one high, and it was ten minutes before he was even offered a towel to clean up some of the blood. Shit...now, there would have been two ambulances, five doctors from Epworth, five medical staff, five trainers, and some poor soul crying out "my pronouns are something/whatever"?! Look, I know there are some absolutely wonderful players that played the game...but Peter bloody Daicos. I sure he could kick goals with a blind fold on. And "HUNGRY"?! He'd chew his right arm of before he'd handball, or kick it to another player. Yeah, the 80's, just brilliant. And please get Lou Richards back behind the microphone. Listening to any AFL on the radio is like listening to a discussion on the latest fishing trip, the new dog, the new car, last nights barbeque...holy crap, what a lot of characterless dills. But footy is dead to me now. It's a girl's game.

[@DJNEDROY]

Kicks a Goal😂. Wata wack game

[@stevesalkas9128]

Best on earth 🌏 by a planet

[@jonburrows9816]

42:46

[@jonburrows9816]

1:23:02