Each year this conversation goes on between people outside of Victoria and inside Victoria, each with their own view of when it started based on how it suits their club generally at the time.
As a parochial West Aussie I tend to agree more with the Vics and the AFL that it did not start but it evolved.
Growing up in WA in the 70's and 80's the WAFL was king, we watched the winners on Sunday night but my recolection is the VFL scores did not even make the news over here. It was all WAFL, thats all we spoke of at school or at play. We wore WAFL jumpers to footy training, our hero's were WAFL players, christ I never new who Ted Whitten was until the erly 80's and even then it meant nothing to me compared to what my WAFL hero's did.
But one thing I always new was that of the 3 major state football leagues the VFL was the biggest. It attracted the biggest crowds and as the years went by it attracted the best players.
It was the only league that could of evolved into the AFL and it did it.
I don't know why people continue to argue over the what title the VFL premiers received in 1960? Because that competition evolved into what is now the AFL then it makes sense for that title to be a VFL/AFL flag.
Everyone knows that 1960 title meant no more to the winner than it did to the winner of the WAFL or SANFL in that same year. No club in 1960 was awarded an AFL premiership. This is why it is clearly labeled a VFL/AFL premiership, same comp yet vastly different titles.
I can't understand why people want history tarnished. A clubs history is it's history.
Yes it is hard to swallow that my own great club in West Perth are not in the AFL. maybe if the comp had been started differently then who knows but it is what it is.
I don't care when people think it started, give it any date you like. We all know what a state league flag and a national flag are.
Even the AFL know that's why they call them VFL/AFL.
What ever your history is treasure it, be proud of it and hope to repeat it.
Why keep trying to find a date?
As a parochial West Aussie I tend to agree more with the Vics and the AFL that it did not start but it evolved.
Growing up in WA in the 70's and 80's the WAFL was king, we watched the winners on Sunday night but my recolection is the VFL scores did not even make the news over here. It was all WAFL, thats all we spoke of at school or at play. We wore WAFL jumpers to footy training, our hero's were WAFL players, christ I never new who Ted Whitten was until the erly 80's and even then it meant nothing to me compared to what my WAFL hero's did.
But one thing I always new was that of the 3 major state football leagues the VFL was the biggest. It attracted the biggest crowds and as the years went by it attracted the best players.
It was the only league that could of evolved into the AFL and it did it.
I don't know why people continue to argue over the what title the VFL premiers received in 1960? Because that competition evolved into what is now the AFL then it makes sense for that title to be a VFL/AFL flag.
Everyone knows that 1960 title meant no more to the winner than it did to the winner of the WAFL or SANFL in that same year. No club in 1960 was awarded an AFL premiership. This is why it is clearly labeled a VFL/AFL premiership, same comp yet vastly different titles.
I can't understand why people want history tarnished. A clubs history is it's history.
Yes it is hard to swallow that my own great club in West Perth are not in the AFL. maybe if the comp had been started differently then who knows but it is what it is.
I don't care when people think it started, give it any date you like. We all know what a state league flag and a national flag are.
Even the AFL know that's why they call them VFL/AFL.
What ever your history is treasure it, be proud of it and hope to repeat it.
Why keep trying to find a date?
so I was bound to miss/forget a few things lolol
