Pendlebury Diaries: The Record Breaker - Episode 3: Block Out The Noise
5/21/202644 min
As the countdown to history reaches its final stages, it's time for a history lesson! Pendlebury Diaries takes you deeper inside the world of football's greatest milestone. With the all-time games record now within touching distance, the media attention grows and every moment matters.
From the inner sanctum at Collingwood to the mindset of a champion still performing at the elite level, this is unprecedented access to Scott Pendlebury’s pursuit of immortality, on the field, behind closed doors, and inside the moments the public never sees.
Pendlebury Diaries is built from personal, real time voice notes exchanged between Scott Pendlebury and Mark Howard, tracking the weeks and months leading into his record-breaking AFL game.
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It's all building toward one moment: Game 433.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[upbeat music] A listener production.
Speaker 20:04
First kick, first goal.
Speaker 30:05
Poetry in slow motion. Scott Pendlebury.
Speaker 40:08
Time stands still for the great one.
Mark Howard· Host0:09
Welcome to The Record Breaker. [upbeat music] Righty-o. It is time for a history lesson, but don't worry, don't skip forward, don't move over this part. This will not be your rather dry, old school, boring textbook type of history. No, this is the history of the games record that our man Pendles is chasing, and how the significance of the record and how it's been celebrated and reported on has changed enormously. So officially, from what we can gather, that's a disclaimer in case we've got anything wrong, from what we can gather, 14 chaps have held the VFL/AFL record, with Charlie Panham, who played for Collingwood and Richmond, the first player listed to play 100 games of VFL footy. Charlie finished up on 193 games, so he's our first record holder. From here, we're gonna skip forward to the last five record holders. [tape rewinding] So I must say at this point, there is some confusion [laughs] about some of these numbers, and they have been retrospectively adjusted. This is due to State of Origin football, as Origin footy could actually be played in the day, on the same day a VFL game was on. So you might play for your state rather than your club that day. So players were given credit for the games they missed for playing for their state. So officially, in today's