- Gary Ablett Sr has fallen on hard times financially
- The diagnosis of brain damage continues at the end of 2022
- His Norm Smith medal from the 1989 AFL Grand Final up for grabs
- Over 200 Ablett items available to the highest bidder
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AFL icon Gary Ablett senior has resorted to selling his individual awards to the highest bidder as he continues to battle “significant brain damage” stemming from his illustrious 248-game career.
Ablett, 62, has passed on a number of coveted items, including the 1993 AFL Most Valuable Player Leigh Matthews Trophy and the 1989 Grand Final Norm Smith Medal, to Entertainment by Vin, a company that sells memorabilia high-end sports cars.
The man ‘nicknamed’ God by many football fans has fallen on tough times financially following his life-changing diagnosis in 2022.
Last year, the Geelong Cats champion admitted he had experienced “headaches and pressure in the skull” from 2010 onwards, which later progressed to migraines, insomnia, blurred vision, significant memory loss, anxiety, fatigue and depression. severe.
A subsequent scan confirmed Ablett’s worst fears.
AFL great Gary Ablett senior (pictured in 1995) has resorted to selling his individual awards to the highest bidder as he continues to battle “significant brain damage” stemming from his 248-game career.
Ablett, 62, (pictured with son Gary Jr) has passed on several coveted items, including the 1989 Norm Smith medal from the Grand Final.
The man ‘nicknamed’ God by many fans (pictured with his grandson Levi) has fallen on tough times financially following his life-changing diagnosis.
Kane Cornes, AFL identity, stated that Ablett Sr will sell more than 200 items in total.
“This has come across my desk and it is a reasonable story that has not yet been reported,” he said in SEN.
‘Gary Ablett Sr, your catalog is being put together right now.
‘So all of Gary Ablett Sr.’s personal items are for sale. We’re talking the 1993 Leigh Matthews Trophy, the 1989 Norm Smith Medal, Coleman Medals, boots, jerseys… More than 200 Gary Ablett Sr items are for sale.
‘He is selling everything. There are signs, there are signs, there is her Geelong guernsey, there are his boots.
“Everything about Gary Ablett, he keeps it all.”
With concussions still a major talking point in Australian sport, Ablett acknowledged that the AFL has taken significant steps to minimize head hits in the modern game, unlike its heyday when head injuries were common. much more common.
Ablett estimates he was knocked unconscious at least eight to 10 times in his career, and had other signs of concussion on multiple occasions, including ringing in the ears and feeling “out of it.”
The prolific forward appeared in 242 games for the Cats from 1984 to 1997 and scored 1,021 goals, the sixth-highest tally in VFL/AFL history.