Seven-time Super Bowl winner Tom Brady sent a dart across the Crown Palladium ballroom a week ago, straight into the hands of Carlton coach Michael Voss. Those not mindlessly filming on iPhones clapped like seals. Carlton president Luke Sayers later handed Brady a bunch of Blues guernseys with his name on the back.

Exactly why the NFL’s GOAT was in Australia seems largely unimportant, aside from the fact that it allowed Sayers to delight Blues diehards by getting proximity to actual sporting greatness.