278: Brendan Fevola - The Millionaires Club (Part B)

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Who is Brendan Fevola and what is the premise of The Millionaires Club (Part B)?

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a listener production.
Howie Games 0:10
You are listening to episode 278 of The Howie Games, The Millionaire's Club Part B, featuring Brendan Favola. Now, do not forget to listen to Fifi, Fev and Nick on Fox FM in the breakfast time slot here in Melbourne. On we go. Yeah, obsession with local footy. I wrote it down. So after we did this, Melton, 2017, 2018, Hastings, 2019, Deer Park, 21. Yeah, before this, you went down to New Norfolk, which was the club of the great Peter Hudson. 2012, you kicked 18 for them that day. Feb having another crack from the impossible pocket.
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He has.
Howie Games 0:51
All right. 2013, you went back, had a disappointing day in the Gig 16 for
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them. Yeah, I was
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for that. New Norfolk Eagles. My old man, him and his brother call each other Eagle. There's Ian and Rob, but they both grew up in New Norfolk
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playing junior footy for New Norfolk. The Valley of Love.
Howie Games 1:06
The Eagles. So they call each other Eagles. Like, how you going, Eagle? Good Eagle. What's happening, Eagle?
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Well, Huddo was there that day.
Howie Games 1:12
Hutto was there, was he?
Brendan Fevola 1:13
So he lived behind the ground as a kid. Right. So he was watching the game. He played the day before at Barmboogle, played golf. Right. So I only knew this, that he was playing golf because I saw him in the airport the next morning. And the record for the ground was 17 goals. So I've got 11 halfway through the second.
Howie Games 1:31
This is a new offer.
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We've been out all night, by the way, the night before. Surprise. I rock up and they're like, mate, we're out. I'm like, we're out for dinner. I'm like, cool. Gets to like one o'clock in the morning, everything's shut. They're going, we're getting a minivan and we're going into Hobart. Into the bar. I'm like, what the hell? This is the best footy club ever. I got home at like 6.30 in the morning, had to be down the main street to sign autographs at 8.30, at the ground at Tower 11. And then I wasn't feeling great. Halfway through the second, I got 11. I'm like, whoa, what wasn't I doing this all my career?
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I
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was on. Anyway, the runner comes out halfway through the last quarter and I've just kicked my 17th. And he said, mate, come off. I go, what? 17. What do you mean? There's about 8,000 people there. They're going nuts. I've kicked 17.
Howie Games 2:18
They're not coming to watch the blokes sitting
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on the bench. I'm not here to sit on the bench. I said, there's half a quarter to go. And they said, no, no, no, Peter Hudson's record is 17 at this ground and they don't want you to break it and he's here watching. And I said, F that. I snapped one from the boundary line in front of all the crowd of about 40 out and I dribbled it through and I said, now I'm coming off. And I went and sat on the bench. And I told Pete Hartson that story and he laughed. Anyway, so I did break his record down in New Norfolk. It was pretty funny.
Howie Games 2:45
Well, it's my grandfather worked at the paper mill. That's why I know because we used
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to go and
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stay every summer, a
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boy
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would show up to New Norfolk. But you continued to play footy. Is there a
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number of goals you've kicked? Well, I'll tell you something, Harry. I played 204 AFL games and now I've played 208 local footy games. So I'm now a local footy player.
Howie Games 3:08
And how many goals do you reckon you've kicked in the
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tournament? I know exactly how many I've kicked.
Howie Games 3:12
How many? How many?
Brendan Fevola 3:12
No, that's the reason I'm still playing, because I want to kick 1,000 local footy. What do you want? So I've got 11 to go, I think. I've kicked 989
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goals. He just needs to shoot down in Norfolk.
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Play,
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play.
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Play two quarters. See you later. I'm 45 and I've just about had enough.

How did Brendan’s early local‑footy experiences shape his AFL career?

Brendan Fevola 3:38
So why? Why? I just love it. You just love footy? I love footy. Country footy is where the heart is. I should have been a country footy player. I should have played in the 80s, let's be honest, because that was sort of like country footy. Yeah. I've played a lot of – I think I've played the most – I think I've played for the most clubs in history. I'm not surprised. And the best thing is that you go to a club that you don't know anyone, you rock up the night before or the day of, you meet all these dudes and they just love footy and I love footy and then you play the game, you do a sporty, you get on the piss with them, you have the best night and then you go home the next day.

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