‘They’ve killed me off’: AFL says sorry for In Memoriam blunder
On Tuesday night the AFL inducted Dane Swan into the Hall of Fame and elevated Hawthorn’s Jason Dunstall to Legend status in a glittering ceremony in Melbourne .
Porter played 78 games for Hawthorn and was a member of their 1971 VFL premiership team. The 79-year-old is alive and well. Kennedy replied: “I’d like to send one out to Michael Porter who played in the 71 Grand Final. ‘Portholes’ they called him.“The issue is he’s alive. So Portholes, if you’re listening mate or you’re up there in NSW, let us know when the wake is because we’ll be all there mate!”A league spokesman said: “Once this innocent mistake was realised we moved quickly to ring and apologise to everyone affected, including Michael, and thank him for his understanding.
“I got all these phone calls on Tuesday night, the first being from a mate I played with at Hawthorn named John Fisher, When I answered he just said ‘thank god”, I said ‘why” and he told me the AFL Hall of Fame had killed me off,” Porter
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