After Brisbane wore the throwback guernseys on Sunday, Know Your History this week had to be on the birth of the Bad News Bears

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Want to know where proper intelligent footy analysis started?
Pick up a copy of the AFL Record this week - chatted to icons McAvaney, Sheahan and Healy about the revolution that was ‘Talking Footy’ 30 years ago on Channel 7 and the continuation via ‘On the Couch’ and others #AFL

Sports marketing can be riddled with prescriptive nonsense to appease sponsors and/or KPIs.
Whether by design or accidental, the AFL’s #GatherRound has worked by getting out of the way and letting fans find their groove. #SportsBusiness READ: www.theroar.com.au/2025/04/16/a...

Bubble gum, flicks, dodgy photos, mistaken identities..
it’s Know Your History on Footy Cards
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It’s been a lot of fun delving into the history of the @westernbulldogs.bsky.social and the club’s meaning to the community with the help of historian Darren Arthur and many more.
Buy the AFL Record this week to read and 🎧 to segment on Whateley SEN: megaphone.link/NTETP4961254679
#AFLDogsPies

Best band in the world right now?
@fontainesdc.bsky.social ☘️✅

The first (and only) ‘Australia Games’ happened 40 years ago.
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And no, we didn’t make this up, @Quartermain10 has proof.

My first part-time job as a teen was selling the AFL Record at the MCG, so it was great to be involved in the Record’s annual top 50 AFL Movers and Shapers list. Out now.

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Check out a preview of the list online: sen.lu/4aUBzgA

Know Your History on @WhateleySEN, the last time a women’s Test was played at the MCG and the MCG’s legacy for women’s cricket, and some Myrtle discussion. #AUSvENG #washes
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Gary Ablett Snr embraces Plucka Duck and the teams line up at the Dean Jones Tribute Match at the @MCG in 1994-95.
30 years since Deano’s wild summer in exile
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Dad was telling me last night about going to see this crazy double bill as a 16 year old in 1968; The Who and The Small Faces at Festival Hall.
Here’s the review from The Age the next day. Fair to say reviewer Richard Zachangh didn’t quite get the scene…

☘️ @fontainesdc.bsky.social

A decade back Greg Chappell was pilloried for an obsession with youth.
Spoke to him 12 months ago, he maintained the line and worried for the national team’s future.
It looks prescient today. #AUSvIND

Had spent an hour and half watching the ARIAS even though I was battling to know any song played/nominated…and then they roll out the bloody Pixies! ❤️
That’s called a good investment @pixiesofficial.bsky.social

Good…but not a patch on stick man ➡️

On Know Your History - the India/Australia cricket relationship and how Australian cricket was slow to realise in the late 80s and 90s that India was fast becoming the economic centre of the sport. #AUSvIND #Cricket

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Everyone’s down on the new Gold Coast logo, but it only took me 3 days to see the ‘Sun’ in it.
Whereas it took me 30 years to see Atlanta’s Hawk.

The David Warner retirement reversal offer? It’s got nothing on the Dean Jones hoopla 30 summers ago.
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