“It’s a hell of a story,” as so artfully explained in the lyrics of the Hunters And Collectors song which has become the unofficial anthem of the AFL finals series, “when you spend your lifetime trying to get your hands on the holy grail.” Unless of course you can just flick around on your iPhone for a few minutes and buy a piece at auction because the running laps and not eating McDonalds required to be a professional athlete is much tougher than you had initially anticipated.
And now you can.
The AFL have announced an ingenious new finals campaign – World’s Most Precious Metal – launched to find the cashed up bogan footy acolyte with the highest disposable income and give them the chance to win an exclusive piece of hardware cast from this year’s Premiership Cup.
The 42.2 gram ingot up for auction was made from the shavings left when this year’s premiership cup was forged and recast by Australian master jeweller Michael Cook. All proceeds from the sale of the miniature shiny thing designed to turn AFL diehards into Gollum will go towards helping youth homelessness through AFL charity partner Ladder so you won’t have to feel too conflicted about being forced to spend a portion of your daughter’s university fund on a really cool man cave ornament.
Via Mumbrella
