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Judd omens for those who believe in the supernatural


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The final, most glorious omen, is that the great Martin Luther King Jr made this speech shortly before Geelong's last premiership in 1963. Although he made a similar speech by the same title, this particular one didn't get the due recognition it deserved. Here are the main excerpts:

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Melbourne Footbal Club dream.

I have a dream that one day this club will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal - except Chris Judd."

I have a dream that one day on the MCG the sons of the fathers who witnessed the last Demons dynasty, and their fathers will be able to sit down together and see the resurrection of the Demons.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Victoria, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice for the Melbourne Football Club.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their guernsey but by the content of their trophy cabinet.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Broadmeadows, with its vicious anti-Melbourne sentiment, with its former resident Eddie McGuire having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Broadmeadows, little boys and girls will be able to join hands with other little boys and girls as sisters and brothers, and convert them to become Melbourne supporters.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Melbourne Football Club shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the MCG with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our club into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together (only the Collingwood supprters, that is), to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all Melbourne supporters will be able to sing with a new meaning on that last Saturday in September, "Its a Grand Old Flag."

And if Australia is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Templestowe. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of the Dandenongs. Let freedom ring from the heightening hills of Greensborough!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Mt. Buller!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of Rebecca Twigley!

But not only that; let freedom ring from the MCG!

Let freedom ring from Light Tower 3!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Melbourne. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all Melbourne supprters, children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old [censored] spiritual, "It's A Grand Old Flag" with the Premiership Cup resting once again in the hands of the Melbourne Football Club.

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