I'm yet to be a father but these would be the top 3 (exclude finals) to tell.

R4 v Coll 2008. The drought breaker. Leaving the darkest part of our history in our wake.
R12 v Coll 2008. Could not speak for a week after that game.
R6 v Haw 2009. Yes even though we lost but when Fev took that mark I'v never heard a crowd that loud.

v The Hawks at PP in 1992 I think. We made a bigish comeback in the last quarter.

Didn't see the game (I saw some highlights later), only heard it on ABC radio and they (commentators) were going berzerk. Same thing happened to me with the 1999 prelim.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

That was a great game cimm, 1993 it was. The week after that tie with the Dons, only this time Sticks kicked the winning goal.

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Ahh, thanks for that.

I'm not sure I had a stronger emotional response to a football match than the Hawks game one and I didn't even see it!

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Having been going to the footy for over 30 years the one game that i will always remember is the 1999 Preliminary final against Essendon*. I was there with my young daughter and she still talks about it.

Round 22, 2003

Dont ever let things get so bad that are reasonably foreseeable from which you don't act with all of your powers to change the outcome for good.

1994 V North at the MCG on a Friday night

1995 V Eagles

1995 GF goes without saying

1999 Prelim goes without saying too.

I'd also go with the following:

Round 22, 2000 V Richmond- This game has a bit of a personal feel to me. It was the last time I got to see Aaron Hamill play live in the navy blue, and I distinctly remember a goal he kicked that day. On the run, off the back of a few bounces to the Punt Rd. end. Big Lance was on fire too as we belted the Tigers by over 70 points.

Round 3, 2001 V Essendon- No Bradley, Kouta, or SOS. Remember the elation when Lappin kicked a goal from outside 50, and the charge we made in the last quarter to win by 17 points.

Round ? 2001 V Hawks- The game earlier in the season, we lost by around 5 goals, but I remember it for one thing. Silvagni running into the post, as it happened right in front of me.

Round 18, 2001 V Essendon- Bradley's 350th, Bombers in red-hot form coming up to September (they'd come back from 69 points down against North a couple of weeks earlier), and a game both sides needed to win. Lappin kicked about 5 from memory.

Round 3, 2003 V Essendon- Bombers go into the game cocky once again, look alright for most of the night, they even led by 15 points at halftime. The rain belted down in the last term, we win by 11 points.

Round 7, 2004 & Round 22, 2004 V Collingwood. Both close games.

Round 2, 2005 V Essendon- Came back from 28 points down at 3/4 time to win by 4 points

Round 3, 2007 V Essendon- Came from 48 points down to win by 3 points. Fevola kicked 8.

Both 2008 Collingwood games.

Round 21 V Brisbane 2008.

2008 & 2009 V Bulldogs

Round 6 2009 V Hawthorn

The Brisbane final 2009

Round 19, 2010 V Essendon- Loved every single minute of it. Got heavily blind, stirred the smug Essendon* supporters and they did not like it one bit. Loved watching them squirm in their seats and try to find excuses when I'd stir them. Oh, and the game was great too.

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Round 3, 1979 vs. Essendon* - The first game I remember attending as a kid...and also the very first game of the 1979 season @ Waverley in March (Yes, 3 comes before 1)...Wayne Johnston's debut - Blues won by 21 points.

Grand Final Day 1987 vs. Hawthorn - Reminisced about this game over dinner with Eddie Betts last week. Eddie was 1 at the time, so was shocked to hear that it was the hottest Grand Final Day on record. Sunburn that lasted 2 weeks, but plenty of great celebrations and good memories of our 15th flag. Blues won by 33 points.

Round 6, 1992 vs. St.Kilda - the weekend of my 18th birthday...Princes Park, plenty of the then sponsors product (CUB), and got into the rooms after the game. A 35-goal shootout, down by 4 goals at half-time, the Blues kick 10 in the second half and won by 8 points.

Plenty of others...those 3 the first that spring to mind.

That was the very first footy match I went to! I was 9 or so and felt like I had never seen so many people in the one place before.

Hey - thanks for being one of the 34,784 people who came to my 18th (that's how I'll sell it to the Grandkids)...what a party huh?!!

my bucks party in 2005, had part of it at the night grand final, stinking hot night, prenda kicked the winner, I was forced to wear collingwood attire, filth supporters would give me the thumbs up and I would respond with "I don't follow your @#$%&! team".

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95 GF, 99 Prelim & the game which we smashed Collingwood at Princes Pk by over 100 points, and as I was walking out a few Blue Baggers were smashing some Collingwood flowers out in the car park

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When you say 'forced' - you mean by hyperdermic needle filled with the blood of an Acland St hooker or something to that effect right?

Certainly could be a hooker in the explanation somewhere.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

I was told I could do it the hard way or the easy way

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Wiggo's 100th

Also the centenary game against Collingwood in 1992 when Kernahan spoiled their party with 7 goals.

Doc, if memory serves, your 18th was a lockout!

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2001 on a Friday night v North. We started terribly in Lances 100th, our boys were slipping and sliding all over the wet park. 6 goals down at halftime we were. Then Darren Hulme stepped up and won the footy in a remarkable piece of play when he shouldn't. The boys kicked it forward and we got a goal. It all started there. I remember Wayne Brittain pointing to that as the defining moment in the game. Blues win a thriller by a goal with Lance kicking the sealer. Could it have been scripted any better? I think not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7lng3Uz23I

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My grandkids will long hear tales about one player, Stephen Silvagni.

His finals series in 1995, holding Wayne Carey and Gary Ablett to a goal between them.

Kicking out of bounds without a touch after a behind in the 1993 semi final, tthen taking a screamer on the line from the free kick

The flat top in the 87 grand final scorcher.

And of course his emotional speech at the three quarter time huddle in the 99 prelim final.

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As I'm a bit older than many on here, I'll go with 3 from the 70s and 80s (non-finals)...

Jezza's first game as captain coach, 1978, against Collingwood at Vic Park. We had lost 1 of our first 6 or 7 games, and Collingwood were, I think, on top of the ladder. We won by 17 points in the mud, and the headling in The Age on the Monday was "Jezza's Blue Magic Spells Magpie Gloom (or Doom?)".

1982 - we needed to win 2 of our last 3 games to finish top 3 and have the double chance. We played Richmond in round 20, then North in round 21. Both were top 5 teams. At 3/4 time in the Rich game, Parkin told all non-players to move away from the huddle, and addressed only the players. His speech apparently was spine tingling. We came from 3 or 4 goals behind to win comfortably at Princes Park. From memory it was Johnston into the middle that might have sparked us?

A week later, we were down by quite a bit to North midway through the 3rd quarter. This game was also at Princes Park. Parkin brought on Rohan Kerr (son of former great Laurie Kerr) and put him into the middle. He racked up 17 posessions from the middle of the 3rd till the middle of the last, and swung the game our way. We won.

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Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!