'A Bear is Born' - 1987 Brisbane Bears VFL promo film
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- Promotional video put out by the Brisbane Bears halfway through their inaugural VFL season. Behind the scenes look at club's formation plus 1987 match highlights. Lots of spin but an amazing time capsule for footy historians. Worth it for the dazzling Carrara opening ceremony alone.
RIP Paul Cronin
This is sensational. Thank you for posting.
Timothy Hickman Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Plenty more to come.
They have had a team in The VFL/AFL longer than the NSWRL/NRL
Correct.
I was a part of that crowd back then, thank you for this video, was so good to relive it again.
I was Bourne in 86 my first word was Bear when I seen the mascot on tv
I have been around the club my entire life met Micheal Voss before he was signed played on the Gabba from Aus kick to under 17s I've been a member since 94.
How great was footy in those days? So free-flowing & full of running!
And that club song! How could you hate it? :D
Soccer is the greatest sport on Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Afl is big in 4 Australian States. Soccer will be the number 1 sport in Australia by 2050 gxbsdz
@@mufc510 Mate, you still parroting that crap? There are only 195 sovereign countries recognised by the United Nations and there are plenty where football is nowhere near the No. 1 sport namely the US & Canada, the Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, the Pacific Islands, South Asia (the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan), pockets of Europe towards the Arctic where ice hockey is dominant, the Phiippines (basketball), Australia, New Zealand you name it. I guarantee football will NEVER be the No. 1 sport in Australia as the other codes like Aussie Rules and rugby league are the dominant football codes in this country. To ask yourself why football isn't the main sport here is simple, to use the Starbucks analogy, they came here believing they could take over in Australia and why did they fail? Because Australians preferred the local content on offer.
@@mufc510 soccer is the worst sport in the world and is hated is ALL Australian states. Aussie rules is popular in Queensland and thanks to GCS has more and more kids playing it.
Soccer will always be unpopular here. The national competition is virtually bankrupt
@@peterkehoe1984 report him. If enough people do it he’ll get his account banned
this is the coolest shit i have seen this month.
+Travis Worn Thanks!
RIP Phil Walsh #18.
I'm not gay I know some person who can hack you
+Mr. X what the hell is wrong with you?
Great documentary! it still baffles me that Queensland had a national team before South Australia did!
Money being the No. 1 reason and the second being the appetite wasn't there to join the competition of their hated neighbours. SA had to be dragged literally kicking and screaming to join the competition. Other than Port Adelaide most were content to continue with the then status quo of the SANFL
It baffles me that it was in the vfl before the nswrl
And Tasmania
Fitzroy 1897-1996 + Brisbane Bears 1987-1996 = Brisbane Lions 1997-Present
A very different stadium today compared to back in 1987!
Soccer is the greatest sport on Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Afl is big in 4 Australian States. Soccer will be the number 1 sport in Australia by 2050 sfcvn
When this started I was all like, "LOL Oh dear..." but 40 minutes later I'm all like, "Well actually that was pretty insightful..."
+The Ballad of Gaetano fair bit of Skase spin and BS but definitely some interesting nuggets.
34:22 When my least favorite part was finaly over, I couldn't wait for it to end!
Thanks for up loading this video brilliant footage .
+The Yarra Junior Footy Show Thanks! Gad you enjoyed it.
Interesting that Fitzroy had thought of relocating at moving to Brisbane as far back as the 80’s.
Fitzroy was slated to go to Sydney in 1979, before South Melbourne went there in 1982.
One could argue Fitzroy should’ve gone to Brisbane in 1986 instead of getting swallowed in that Brisbane Bears “merger” 10 years later.
Peter Kehoe I wholeheartedly agree mate
Peter Kehoe there was a businessman that wanted to privately own Fitzroy like Sydney & eventually Brisbane & West Coast even if the payers voted for a relocation the president at the time being privately owned was better for the supporters. Ross Oakley rejected the application & tried to merge Fitzroy & Melbourne in 1987. I don’t remember the name of the company but they ended up going out of business.
In Brisbane bears 1996 season highlights one step closer they did briefly play the song dare to beat the bear at the end of the video
Great watching thanks
Thanks Robert. More on the way.
Paul Cronin made football in Queensland
#welcometobrisbanelions
network ten as channel O had TV rights of VFL Brisbane bears. didn't know that. later when 7 regained the VFL rights for 89 onwards 7 would have national rights onwards. Christopher skase had interests in both.
Channel 7 regained the vfl rights in 1988, not 1989
RIP BRISBANE BEARS
And Fitzroy Lions
...Pete Smith speaking!
Is that the same guy who is on this Chiko Roll on TH-cam?
The very one...TV legend
Is the narrator Pete Smith?
TheTVPartyNetwork Yes. But hard to tell without the "Pete Smith speaking" at the end.
#ripfitzroylions
#ripbrisbanebears
12:54 hahahaha
Bring Back The Bears! / 38:41 “Dare To Beat The Bear” - Brisbane Bears VFL
BRING THE BEARS BACK (i used to go for the bears)
Bring them back PLEASE
All I dream of is Brisbane Bears winning.
Do you have anything similar for the crows or Eagles. Or any expansion team?
You should upload The Club!!
+Travis Worn Thanks mate. Don't have anything similar for other expansion clubs. Doubt many rushed out anything like this... especially halfway through their inaugural season.
+Costa Sports I'm positive the West Coast Eagles brought out a video from 1988.
+The Yarra Junior Footy Show Guess I'll have to start hunting for it. Would love to see it.
every time i see this title and image in the suggested videos i always thinknit says 'porno film'
*....they're not*
*human*
Awesome Show. Stupidest thing Brisbane Ever did was taking over Fitzroy. Bring Back the Bears.
And University!
The stupidest thing was the Bears coming in in the first place. Fitzroy wanted to relocate to Brisbane in 1986 but that criminal Ross Oakley knocked it on the head only to accept a Fitzroy/Brisbane merger a decade later. It should've been a relocated Fitzroy team playing out of Brisbane in the first place.
@@peterkehoe1984 Totally agree mate! Only recently i have learnt that Fitzroy were close to relocating to Brisbane.
It was stupid Ross Oakley & the other AFL presidents at the time lead by then Richmond president Leon Daphne who voted in favour of the Brisbane merger over the North Melbourne one because of a fear of making a power house side which Brisbane ended up making history winning 3 in a row
Peter Kehoe yes the players all decided on it but we the last minute a company wanted to privately own the club which Sydney was at the time & West Coast & Brisbane where eventually but he rejected the offer & Fitzroy went on for 10 years with little or no hope from the AFL. Any plans that Fitzroy put in place to get any financial gain Ross Oakley blocked.
Just after that loss Melbourne won the night grand final
Also what the heck is SportsPlay? I see all these signs for SportsPlay during matches from 1987.
TheTVPartyNetwork Sportsplay was a satellite sports network owned by Powerplay International. Powerplay was the publicly listed company that controlled the Sydney Swans license back in the 80s, with Geoffrey Edelston the largest shareholder.
@@CostaSports WOW! Now THAT is an answer.
I feel like footy was better in the '80s and 90's because defence wasn't as important which means more goals were kicked
The Suns were worse in their first season.
Cameron Whyte I think “The” Worst would best describe it.
U mean gold coast cameron?
They gave the license to the wrong consortium; had they given it to John Brown it wouldn't have been such a disaster by going to the Gold Coast.
Actually the VFL/AFL favored John Brown's consortium to start up the Brisbane Bears, but the VFL/AFL clubs preferred the Paul Cronin/QAFL consortium because Cronin promised that his consortium would pay more money for the licence fee to help the financially broke Melbourne clubs at the time which I think was over half of them. But after winning the licence Cronin and the QAFL initially had a lot of problems paying the licence fee upfront. That's when Christopher Skase stepped in and gave the money to buy the Brisbane Bears licence thus becoming the Brisbane Bears owner. The move to Carrara for the Bears home matches was basically a Skase decision because of course he was the owner, and he loved the Gold Coast more than Brisbane. The Gold Coast was Skase's plaything before he became a fugitive. In my opinion if John Brown's consortium was given the Brisbane Bears licence instead of Cronin's by the VFL/AFL despite the objections of the clubs, well I think Brisbane would've played their home matches at the Gabba, and would've gotten rid of the dog track at the Gabba much earlier too.
Obviously this video was made just after the Bear's first game or first year in the competition.
North Melbourne was not a good team that year.
By the year 1992, the Brisbane Bears was in such a disastrous state the Bears almost folded as fast as Fitzroy did during the early 90s and almost took out Sydney Swans in the process with the Private Ownership business model being a failure.
Thankfully 1993 saw Brisbane Bears shift to the GABBA and moves to recruit players and give them proper training where they started to improve as a team.
By 1995 the Brisbane Bears surprised everyone to make their first finals appearance.
Funny enough, the year the Brisbane Bears enjoyed their most successful season in 1996, Fitzroy was struggling so bad they weren't going to survive the year.
In came the Brisbane Bears to offer themselves up as a possible merger partner to Fitzroy Lions and after the approval from all other AFL club presidents, Fitzroy merged with Brisbane to become the Brisbane Lions in 1997 onwards.
The Bears history was a short lived one, but without the club the entire 100 plus history of Fitzroy could have been lost forever.
In 2001, 2002 and 2003, the Brisbane Lions won 3 Premierships in a row and achieved a Hat-Trick won by a team of champion players that were made up of former Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy Lions players, one such player called Alister Lynch played for BOTH Fitzroy and Brisbane before the merger before becoming part of the Premiership Hat-Trick team.
The video was made mid-1987. North finished 4th on the ladder.
@@TomMarvan My mistake, I didn't think of looking at my Footy books to look at where the Kangaroos finished in 87.
Debbie Byrne singing a funeral song.
Why does that blonde giy look like sting from the police 😂😂😂😂
This must have been before Christopher scase did a runner on whoever it was he ripped offf
This is like a tribute to corporate tax write-offs.
Poor Fitzroy. They should have just moved
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