Speaker 1: Welcome to Them, Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Sport is filled with these iconic moments and sometimes they
Speaker 2: produce like iconic images. That's one of Muhammad Ali at
Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden where it's an overhead shot and he
Speaker 2: stood over the inert body of Sonny Liston and it
Speaker 2: was an incredible moment. No one thought Ali would win
Speaker 2: and take on this former gangster. And that shot of
Speaker 2: Buddy at the seg is one of those iconic Super
Speaker 2: Bowl moments in sport where actually something magical happens, which
Speaker 2: is why you know we go every weekend. You hope
Speaker 2: for something magical, You really really hope against a lot
Speaker 2: of times that something magical happens. And him amongst thousands,
Speaker 2: thousands of people in a sea of fans. I've never
Speaker 2: seen an image like that in AFL. Actually you can't
Speaker 2: even see the grass, can't see it's skerrik of green
Speaker 2: from the grass.
Speaker 1: It's an amazing image.
Speaker 2: So out of all this amazing outpouring of love for
Speaker 2: what Buddy managed to do kick a thousand goals, there
Speaker 2: was also some other little it's too there's a lady's
Speaker 2: head that Channel seventh thought we're broadcast this zoom in
Speaker 2: on the head. To be fair, it looked like she
Speaker 2: just had her hair done. It was beautifully styled anyway.
Speaker 2: The other thing that I really love seeing is there
Speaker 2: was a there was a lady that took her NaN's
Speaker 2: ashes that's also a big Swanys fan and thought this
Speaker 2: was the moment to sprinkle some of nance.
Speaker 1: She would have loved this, and so she.
Speaker 2: Rushed out like with the thousands of other but produced
Speaker 2: a glad bag which I normally put the kids sort
Speaker 2: of school lunches in, and Nan was in them, and
Speaker 2: sprinkled some of a Nan on that very special turf.
Speaker 2: Her name's Crystal. She was there with her brother. I thought,
Speaker 2: I've got to speak to her today. What a lovely
Speaker 2: thing to do. But I'm dying to know. I have
Speaker 2: so many questions Crystal.
Speaker 3: Hey, how are you going?
Speaker 1: Crystal?
Speaker 2: Please tell me, by the way, what has your weekend
Speaker 2: been like? Have you had this huge reaction from people?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been sort of. I never thought that I
Speaker 3: would go viral for anything, and I never thought that
Speaker 3: doing this would would do that. We just did it,
Speaker 3: you know, we just had that man. We just wanted
Speaker 3: to honor NaN's wishes. And you know if we could,
Speaker 3: you know, so we took the opportunity when it come
Speaker 3: about and just yeah, so there's been you know good
Speaker 3: and bad from this. You know, should have done it,
Speaker 3: shouldn't have done it, but you know, yeah, we just
Speaker 3: wanted to do it for Nan and you know, she
Speaker 3: loves the AFL, loves this one and loves their scg
Speaker 3: and we've had you know, grown up there with her
Speaker 3: taking us to the Sydney Swan.
Speaker 1: So tell us about non is it Edna Edna?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, NaN's yeah, so originally from Victoria, she come
Speaker 3: up to New South Wales central coast in the seventies
Speaker 3: and you know, got heavily involved in a local AFL
Speaker 3: club up here. She was president, you know for a
Speaker 3: good thirty years. She was active. She's a life member
Speaker 3: there now it got Rufford Tigers, Yeah, the Gospel Tigers,
Speaker 3: so she was you know, she's been their mascot, she's
Speaker 3: you know, collected the membership, she's you know president, she's yeah,
Speaker 3: very heavily involved in.
Speaker 1: That character on awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, she was not your conventional Nan by any means,
Speaker 3: but you know, we wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1: So did she sort of.
Speaker 2: Leave if anything happens to me, you know, I want
Speaker 2: to be cremated and I want some of those to
Speaker 2: be sort of sprinkled around.
Speaker 3: She said she'd love she'd you know, she said it
Speaker 3: to us like she'd love to have, you know, be
Speaker 3: part of the stgy. She always wanted to do the
Speaker 3: coin toss in the middle as well, obviously when she
Speaker 3: was here. So we thought that's why we ran to
Speaker 3: the center of the field where they do the bounce,
Speaker 3: and because we knew, you know, we wouldn't get close
Speaker 3: to Buddy anyway, and not that we we would have
Speaker 3: done it there.
Speaker 2: Anyway over Buddy.
Speaker 3: No, definitely not. So. Yeah, we were running actually against
Speaker 3: the crowd because we were on just where the interchange
Speaker 3: was for the Geelong. So we ran out there and
Speaker 3: everyone was running wrong to left and I was trying
Speaker 3: to run through it. So I think there's there is
Speaker 3: footage out there and me being taken out. If I
Speaker 3: think about three guys, do you.
Speaker 2: Think you're even going to make it, because obviously it
Speaker 2: must have just been chaos.
Speaker 3: Christ it was. It was just like I sort of
Speaker 3: really actually can't remember doing it. I just remember just
Speaker 3: like Joel just went go go go.
Speaker 2: So we're just going and it sounds like Joel your
Speaker 2: brother was running interference, you know, sort of pushing people off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well he was. He was behind me, so yeah,
Speaker 3: that's why. Yeah, he was sort of he helped pick
Speaker 3: me back up a bit when they got taken out.
Speaker 3: We made it to the middle and well done. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I think I think if I knew it was
Speaker 3: going to go this viral, I you know, mum had
Speaker 3: the ashes with her. Mum put it in the you know,
Speaker 3: it was only a few tea spoons, like it was
Speaker 3: hardly anything, but I would have had it in something
Speaker 3: a little nicer than clad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got some question about the glad bag. Normally
Speaker 2: you put the kids sort of lunches and stuff like
Speaker 2: that and that. So mum had the ashes, Your mum got.
Speaker 3: Mum's got NaNs, Yeah, NaN's ashes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you siphoned a bit off, like you said,
Speaker 2: maybe the team Mum.
Speaker 3: Mum did all that, so mum put it in. It
Speaker 3: was mum who you know, brought it down and like
Speaker 3: we were all Mum was there and we were, you know,
Speaker 3: all a part of it. Mum just didn't get out
Speaker 3: to the you know, the rush. She we didn't want
Speaker 3: her to get hurt.
Speaker 2: So that image of you are basically emptying out a
Speaker 2: glass back of your NaN's ashes.
Speaker 3: A nice too. I just want to went through it.
Speaker 1: Who and had it been in your pocket? Had not
Speaker 1: been in your pocket beforehand? And you're waiting, is he
Speaker 1: going to do it? Is he going to kick the
Speaker 1: one thousandth You know?
Speaker 3: By halftime we were like, yeah, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: You know, we were like, okay, we had Nan with us,
Speaker 3: I had a picture of her, and we had her
Speaker 3: all there with us. But then third quarter come and
Speaker 3: they kicked a quick two goals and we're like the
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, were like, I so you said, Mom, where
Speaker 3: is it? And yeah, put it in my pocket? And
Speaker 3: so do we you know, Yeah, when he made that mark,
Speaker 3: we were like we were three rows back. So we
Speaker 3: started pushing forward because everyone just started coming down. So
Speaker 3: we got there and yeah and just as soon as
Speaker 3: you know, he kicked it and they opened the gate.
Speaker 2: And do you know, for someone who loved her foote,
Speaker 2: I think it was the perfect place for some of
Speaker 2: mom to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah spring, Yeah, she lived and breathed afl and you
Speaker 3: know she instilled that in us and you know, we
Speaker 3: love AFL and the Swans and she you know, original
Speaker 3: Western Bulldogs supporter because that was where she was born.
Speaker 3: But when she come up to the New South Wales
Speaker 3: and the Swans come up here in eighty two, she
Speaker 3: was just Swans all the way.
Speaker 1: Do you know what? I think?
Speaker 2: It was amazing for that amazing moment, you know, which
Speaker 2: may may never happen again in footy.
Speaker 1: Actually someone kicking one thousand ago. It was actually great.
Speaker 2: Your nan Edna was there, your mom was there, and
Speaker 2: then you and your brother were there. There's something really
Speaker 2: magical about that crystal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's sort of what we want everyone to
Speaker 3: take away from it. You know, it was I didn't
Speaker 3: you know, I didn't want to offend anyone or anything
Speaker 3: like that. It was really just and.
Speaker 2: Right is who the hell is really offended by that?
Speaker 2: When you when you spread someone's ashes, you're spreading them,
Speaker 2: you're returning them to the universe. If you're offended by that,
Speaker 2: crist will waste no time today or this week worrying
Speaker 2: about people saying they're offended by It's an act of
Speaker 2: love for someone who gains so much the footye it's
Speaker 2: the perfect place for her to be sprinkled red. He
Speaker 2: I think it's a love it's a loving gesture that
Speaker 2: it's a great way, and I think it's awesome that
Speaker 2: you were there for that. I'm curious. One final question, right,
Speaker 2: so round one? Was Nan there taken on g WS
Speaker 2: or not?
Speaker 3: No, Well, mam asked my brother whether because he went
Speaker 3: to that game. I didn't go to that game, but
Speaker 3: my brother did, and Mama asked, did you want to
Speaker 3: take something? He went, no, it's SG. Buddy waited.
Speaker 2: He knew buddy waited and I think Nan, you know,
Speaker 2: had stuff to do with it.
Speaker 3: So, but yeah, May is there.
Speaker 2: I can feel your presence. Yep Ah, that's great, Crystal.
Speaker 2: I love what you did. I think it's brilliant and
Speaker 2: I think Edna would have loved that as well. So
Speaker 2: thank you for s being to us today. But please
Speaker 2: waste no time. And people just say they're offended these days,
Speaker 2: they just like people that professionally offended.
Speaker 1: You did. You did nothing wrong. It's a beautiful thing
Speaker 1: you did.
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