A footy family like no other! 🏉 'Many a time Mum had to come down and break up a few fights, put couple of blokes in the sin bin,' Kerrod Walters.
One of footy's greatest family stories began in an Ipswich backyard where a concrete path marked halfway.
"That's where we learnt to play footy and we learnt to just to throw the ball around and have a bit of fun. I suppose one thing was the halfway line was a concrete path, so you stayed away from that one. Plenty of Mercurochrome got used. "When Kevin and I were in under 18s we got selected in the Queensland under-18s baseball team as well," Kerrod said, adding they also played cricket during summer.
"And Souths caused a big upset and probably their three best players were Mal Meninga, Gary Belcher and Eddie Muller was the hooker. "There's been lots talked about that [1989] grand final and it was a bit surreal at the time. I was probably still finding my way a little bit as a player in a team full of really good players."
"It was just throw caution to the wind and just see what happens, you know. If they score one we'll score two – that was our philosophy."Together, the pair won two premierships and represented Queensland for the first time when Kevin debuted in 1989. "To sort of be kept out of Origin and Australia because of him, I could accept that. Not only because he was my brother, but because he was such a great player as well."
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