The AFL’s night of nights has had its fair share of big moments over the years. It has seen numerous players immortalized for a season of footballing brilliance. More recently though fashion, glamor, and even after parties have stolen the headlines from the Brownlow winners. BeyondTheGame.TV counts down 6 of the biggest Brownlow SHOCKS.

Note: Most of these have absolutely nothing to do with footy or even a medal.



6. Tanya Buckley

Brownlow medalist and Collingwood champion Nathan Buckley was completely overshadowed by his wife Tanya when she turned up to the Brownlow in this number back in 2001. Nobody was too sure what was going on there. P-Diddy wants his diamonds back.



5. Andrew McLeod pipped again

Andrew McLeod was one of the great players of the late 90’s and 00’s. Despite his brilliance though he never took home a Brownlow Medal. In 2001 the Adelaide champion couldn’t hide his disappointment when he was narrowly beaten by Jason Akermanis.



4. Cooney puts a (Burger) ring on it

The Western Bulldog star was a hugely popular Brownlow Medal winner in 2008. But it was his speech that stole the show. Many AFL players receive too much media training and are boring as bat crap these days.

Cooney’s post medal speech had the crowd in stitches- where he even revealed he had just proposed to his girlfriend Hayley with a burger ring.

3.Eddie not happy

Many people expected Collingwood star Dane Swan to win the Brownlow in 2010. One of those people was Collingwood President Eddie McGuire. But when Carlton star Chris Judd ran away with it- Eddie was NOT a happy camper.



2. Rebecca Twigley and the red dress.



West Coast star Chris Judd capped off a brilliant 2004 season by taking out the Brownlow Medal. So you’d think everyone would be talking about him the next day right? Wrong. Nobody cared about Judd or the medal. All everybody wanted to talk about was his girlfriend Rebecca Twigley and THAT red dress. Well played Juddy.

1. Fev is unleashed at the Brownlow.

Carlton spearhead did what many would do and made the most of the free frothies at the Brownlow. For some reason Channel 9 decided to give him a microphone and let him film a ‘Street Talk’ segment even though he was clearly half plastered. What unfolded was total mayhem and this incident would be the beginning of the end of Fev’s career at the Blues. To Fev’s credit- this is easily the best Street Talk segment of all time.