Brownlow 2015 video: Nat Fyfe delivers hilarious acceptance speech with Bruce McAvaney

NAT Fyfe love has gone to new levels after a hilarious speech that included the best Brownlow compliment Bruce McAvaney has ever received. WATCH

NAT Fyfe was universally admired as a footballer.

Then he played a preliminary final with a broken leg and four days later won a Brownlow — and sent the Fyfe love to new levels with a humble and hilarious acceptance speech that could be the best ever.

It certainly included the best Brownlow compliment ever delivered, by Fyfe to host Bruce McAvaney, whose trademark enthusiasm was on full display as he shared the stage with the Dockers superstar.

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Fyfe concluded his speech with this: “This genuinely is a Fremantle Football Club medal tonight, I mean Bruce you could probably win a Brownlow Medal with Aaron Sandilands hitting it down your throat.

WATCH THE FULL FYFE SPEECH IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ABOVE

Earlier, he revealed he took notes as a nine-year-old on stoppage setups, that his childhood hero was Richmond champion Matthew Richardson — “I still love him” — and that he learned the game playing against next door neighbour Cale Morton — who went on to play for Melbourne and West Coast — in the WA country town of Lake Grace.

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Happiest night of Bruce's life. #Brownlow

— Titus O'Reily (@TitusOReily) September 28, 2015

Very deserved winner is Nat Fyfe... The interview with Bruce was almost as good as his footy this season! #star

— Andrew Mackie (@AndrewMackie_4) September 28, 2015

Man crush Monday #Brownlow15

— David Astbury (@dastbury12) September 28, 2015

I love Nat Fyfe

— Gerard Whateley (@GerardWhateley) September 28, 2015

It went for 13 minutes but no one was switching off. Some of the best exchanges:

Bruce: As a kid it was tennis, trucks, footy and probably a few tantrums I hear?

Nat: I’m sort of painted as a bit of a country hillbilly, I’m trying to move away from that if I can ... My family have been nothing but supportive all the way through, of everything but my hair.

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Bruce: As a young boy I read you didn’t take a footy to bed, you took a notepad to bed because you were so interested in strategies. This is pretty weird stuff.

Nat: Early days we had a very good country footy team and I was pretty fascinated in centre square bounce setups and stoppages and always keen to get an edge, but as a nine-year-old it was pretty hard to convince the other blokes to get on board.

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Bruce: We hear these famous stories about Donald Bradman with a cricket stump and a golf ball and hitting up against the wall, you were on a trampoline doing marking practice weren’t you?

Nat: Geez, you’ve done your research, haven’t you? I was a pretty small kid, pretty scrawny.

Bruce: I still am.

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Bruce: is it true it was the Fyfes — Liam, your brother, and yourself — against the Morton boys?

Nat: That’s true, to be more accurate it was me versus Cale, and Liam and the other brother just scrapping in the forward line somewhere.

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Bruce: I’m just a bit worried about your date tonight, Michael Barlow, he’s been outrageous in the last 10 minutes, hasn’t he?

Fyfe: He’s been great value, Mike. I needed someone pretty sturdy to carry my bags the last couple of days so he got the call-up.

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Bruce: Who do the Docker boys really want to win, do they want the Eagles or the Hawks?

Nat: I don’t know which is worse, really.

Nat Fyfe and Bruce McAvaney share a laugh on stage.

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