Until last weekend’s epic four games, the first week of the 1994 Finals Series stood alone as the greatest opening week of the post-season according to most pundits.

One game was decided by two points, one by five and one was the first ever finals game to go to extra time, but one moment stands above all others, and its defined by three words:

‘King of Geelong.’

The words alone conjure up the moment: Bill Brownless’s goal after the siren to win the 1994 Qualifying Final against Footscray.

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The scene after the kick was pure nineties football: moustachioed men in the crowd howling in ecstasy, Cats ruckman John Barnes planting a kiss on the new king, and even Geelong coach Malcolm Blight throwing out the rule book and jumping on the backs of his victorious charges’.

All the while, Sandy Roberts become part of footy folklore with his “Billy, you are King of Geelong” cry, but it was to be followed by Gerard Healey’s less famous call of “the monkey’s off the back, Billy!”.

The background story is that Brownless wasn’t having one of this best seasons, and according to the man himself, he was lucky to have gotten a game that afternoon at the MCG.

“Leading in I hadn’t done a lot,” he told the AFL website as part of their ‘Classic Cast’ series.

“I’d had a pretty poor second half of the year and Sandy called ‘King of Geelong’, and Gerard called ‘the monkey is off the back’ because I had been pretty ordinary.

“I was probably pretty lucky to get a game.”

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The game itself had more twist and turns than most remember as well, with the Cats getting out to a big lead early on the back of multiple John Barnes – Mark Bairstow – Gary Ablett chains that led to a six goal lead at quarter time.

But the scrappy side from Melbourne's west kept chipping away and with 30 seconds to go Richard Osbourne kicked what seemed to be the sealer, but the Cats had other ideas.

A Gary Hocking clearance found David Mensch who hit a hard charging Brownless on the lead, and the rest, as they say, is history.

“I knew I had to kick the goal and just didn’t take too long, just put it on the boot and it’s gone,” Brownless recalled.

“That’s why you play footy but I was just lucky that I had it after the siren, I hadn’t done much for the game, but a good win, that’s what it’s all about.”