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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Ashes on the Field

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Buddy Franklin kicked his 1000 goal over the weekend; and as everyone rushed the field, one lady tried to fulfill a family promise

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:05.0

Sport is filled with these iconic moments, and sometimes they produce like iconic images.

0:10.6

That's one of Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden, where it's an overhead shot,

0:14.8

and he stood over the inert body of Sunny Liston, and it was an incredible moment.

0:19.1

No one thought Ali would win and take on this

0:21.1

former gangster. And that shot of Buddy at the SCG is one of those iconic Super Bowl moments

0:28.9

in sport where actually something magical happens, which is why, you know, we go every weekend.

0:33.9

You hope for something magical. You really, really hope against all of times that something magical happens.

0:39.1

And him amongst thousands, thousands of people in a sea of fans.

0:44.5

I've never seen an image like that in AFL, actually.

0:47.2

You can't even see the grass.

0:48.2

Can't see a scaric of green from the grass.

0:50.6

It's an amazing image.

0:51.7

So out of all this amazing outpouring of love for what Buddy managed to do, kick a thousand

0:57.9

goals. There was also some other little moments too. There's a lady's head that Channel 7 thought

1:03.2

we'd broadcast this. Zoom in on the head? To be fair, it looked like she just had her hair done.

1:07.5

It was beautifully styled. Anyway, the other thing that I really love seeing is

1:12.0

there was a lady that took her nan's ashes, also a big Swanies fan, and thought this was the

1:19.1

moment to sprinkle some of Nan. She would have loved this. And so she rushed out, like with the

1:24.7

thousands of other, but produced a glad bag, which I normally put the kids' sort of school lunches in.

1:30.2

Her nan was in them and sprinkled some of her nan on that very special turf.

1:34.9

Her name's Crystal.

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