I thought I would feature some of my football card collection as I suppose it sort of helped get into and keep me interested in sport and fitness over the years. The cards I have chosen today are some of the players from the Hawthorn Football Club in the 1974 Victorian football league. Hawthorn finished 3rd on the ladder that year but were just about to enter a string of very good years, which made them easy to pick as my team as we were also in their catchment area drafting new players.
Leigh Matthew would have been my favourite player back in the day, and I even had a team jumper with this number 3 on the back. He went on to be very successful, winning premierships, coaching other teams, and even making it as a TV commentator.
Some of the photos on the cards make me laugh. They just look like a few hap hazard snap shots taken in their old training ground at Glen Ferry Oval one afternoon during training. I suppose most of them had full-time jobs back in those days as well.
Each year, they had different things printed on the back of the cards. I liked all the stats. My dad reckons he used to watch Leigh Matthews play in the local Chelsea team before he made it into the major league.
We had a bit of rain today, so my activity count is a little down.
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