AFL marriage proposal at Pennant Hills Demons game
Best day at the AFL EVER. Well, one that Jessie Donovan will not forget for a long time anyway.
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When Jessie Donovan heard her name come over the PA system at the end of a recent AFL game she thought she had won the raffle.
Instead she won the bloke.
On a day she describes as “the best ever”, Donovan captained the Pennant Hills Demons team to a division two match victory at Cherrybrook, won best on field and was then proposed to.
“It was one of our last home games and my partner Jack (Turnbull) got all my friends and family to watch. I don’t normally get a big crowd,” Donovan said.
“Then right at the end this big sign was unveiled in our team colours and it said ‘Jessie, will you marry me’. I was super shocked.
“He came over and proposed. I said ‘yes’ and we hugged and then all the footy girls went nuts.”
Donovan, raised in Pennant Hills but now living in Lane Cove, said her fiancee was trying to organise her to do a kick-for-cash before the proposal but she could not understand what was being said on the PA system
“I thought I’d won the raffle,” she said. “Instead I won the bloke.”
She also won the oddly named Boy Oh Boy Wowee of the Year award at the AFL Sydney Phelan and Mostyn Medal awards night.
The award is named after a phrase made famous by AFL commentator Brian Taylor.
Numerous players from the Pennant Hills club were winners on the night.
“It’s a really strong club. We are one of the largest in the competition and one of the oldest,’’ Donovan said.
“It’s such a good club. It’s very family friendly and very much part of the community.
“So many people have moved away like me but we all come back to play.’
Other winners from the club were Ranga Ediriwickrama who took out the Best and Fairest Phelan Medal, Harry Maguire who won the men’s Rising Star award and Volunteer of the Year Allen Abbott.
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