Brendan Fevola
celebrates the news that beer is cheaper in Brisbane than
Melbourne
Brendan Fevola is a Brisbane (formerly Carlton) AFL Player
noted for several outstanding characteristics, including
spectacular and explosive skill as a full-forward and having an
equally spectacular and explosive bladder. Fevola supplements
the rigorous training regime of a professional AFL club with
his wacky after-hours antics.
Some football clubs aim to reserve the jumper numbers worn
by Club greats for players who will maintain some of the aura
of that jumper number, or at least do nothing to detract from
it. Carlton seem to have taken the opposite approach with the
number 25 jumper famously worn by Alex Jesaulenko (who had a
decent sized bladder and cajones to match) by giving it to
Fevola. Jesaulenko was renowned for getting the number 25
airborne in breathtaking style whereas Fevola keeps bringing it
back to earth with a thud. Or trickle. Many AFL players get
annoyed with people taking the piss out of them, but Fevola's
philosophy seems to be that there is plenty to go around.
Brendan Fevola's achievements include winning the Coleman
Medal in 2006 and he was co-winner with Richmond captain Kane
Johnson of the 2008 Phil Carman Medal for memorable AFL Player
behaviour.
Some confidential Carlton sources have said that a senior
member of the Carlton coaching staff took Brendan Fevola aside
during the Sherrin footy drought of late 2002 when his future
with the club was in doubt and suggested something along the
lines of : "You don't always have a football readily to hand to
practice your accuracy so see what else you can immediately put
your hands on to help you with your accuracy." Fevola, it
seems, took the matter into his own hands and combined it with
his bladder problem thereby commendably turning two negatives
into a positive.
Fevola, allegedly not the full quid, may be intimidated by
his estimated mere 50% compliance with Carlton's motto of "Mens
Sana In Corpore Sano" (a healthy mind in a healthy body), which
may have had a compounding psychological affect on his bladder
condition.
When confronted (separately by a Channel 7 film crew and The
Footy Show panel) about having allegedly urinated on the front
window of the CandyBar night spot, Fevola disputed urinating on
the window. A professional such as Fevola may have been
insulted by the implied claims of inaccuracy as he may have
decided to go on the window sill or the window frame. This
perhaps accurately reflects the frustration of someone who has
carefully practiced and developed his accuracy, only to be let
down by inaccurate goal umpiring. It's a bit like kicking a
goal from the boundary and having the goal umpire call a
behind. "Window, my arse! That was nothing but sill!"
This came on the back of the 2006 incident in Ireland where
Fevola, presumably frustrated by the height of the window sills
in an Irish pub, physically remonstrated with a barman.
In September 2008, Fevola inadvertently revealed to the
public the level of dedication he has privately gone to to
further improve his accuracy: he has added a prosthetic
extension to his nether regions to further enhance range and
accuracy, revealing on the Footy Show that "....within 60
(metres) I can have a shot, I think."
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