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Australian rules football in popular culture
Summary
Australian rules football has had a significant impact on popular culture in its native Australia, capturing the imagination of Australian film, art, music, television and literature.
Australian rules is featured on several Australian (and international) postage stamps and postcards including:
1974 - 7 cent stamp featuring players in a marking contest
1984 - Ausipex Antigua and Barbuda $5 stamp
1989 - 3 cent Australian sports stamp
1996 - 45 cent Centenary of the AFL series circulated in 1996 featuring the 16 AFL teams of the day
2008 - 50 cent 150 years of Australian Football depicting the first match
2009 - 55 cent "Let's Get Active" postage stamp also features a child kicking an Australian Rules ball
2012 - Australian Legends of Football featuring Ron Barassi and Gary Ablett Jnr
Barry Oakley's satiric football novel A Salute to the Great McCarthy was published in 1970.
Crime novelist Kerry Greenwood wrote the 1991 short story The Vanishing of Jock McHale's Hat.
Alan Wearne's 1997 novel Kicking in Danger is about an Essendon player turned private eye who specialises in football-related cases. Football plays a major role in the 1998 novel Deadly, Unna? by Phillip Gwynne. The Call (1998), written by Martin Flanagan, is a semi-fictional account of football pioneer Tom Wills. Set during the 1970s, the 1999 novel Saturday Afternoon Fever by comedian Matthew Hardy follows a boy on weekend trips to VFL games, specifically to see his hero, St Kilda's Trevor Barker. Tony Wilson's debut novel Players (2005) satirises the relationship between football and the media. In 2012, Paul D. Carter won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for his debut novel Eleven Seasons, a coming-of-age story about a teenager and the role football plays in shaping his identity.
In 2002, Felice Arena and former AFL star Garry Lyon co-wrote the first of many children's books in the Specky Magee series. Other footballers have released football-themed children's books, including Dwayne Russell with Jackson's Goal and Brendan Fevola with The Best Game Ever.
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