| Almost 3 hours of amazing footage including the complete QTQ9 TV Special “Lewis to Lockyer – 20 Years of the Broncos” plus extended interviews and more. When former Queensland rugby league player Steve Williams noted an obscure advertisement in a newspaper calling for interested parties to enter a Brisbane-based team in the NSWRL competition, he thought “why not?” Williams co-erced his father-in-law Barry Maranta, Crocodile Dundee backer Paul Morgan and Kookaburra Queen Paddle Steamers owner Gary Balkin to join him – and the Brisbane Broncos were born. That was in 1987. Now, twenty years on and six premierships later, the Broncos reflect on one of the most phenomenal success stories in Australian sport. From the very start, when a brewer without a beer paid $1million to sponsor a club without a team, to the astonishing premiership victory of 2006, this story is fascinating. Nothing has been sidestepped. Not the controversial sacking of King Wally Lewis as captain, nor the involvement of the Broncos in the evolutionary war that was Super League. All the major protagonists are interviewed. Broncos’ favourites including Langer, Lockyer, Hancock, Miles, Tallis, Webcke, Walters, Renouf and Hunt tell all about a club that helped make them household names. Raided archives have unveiled those spectacular tries and big tackles – a trademark of this sporting icon – as well as the hostilities, the ‘us against them’ battles that raged on and off the field. This is a celebration of the good times, the triumphs, and the characters. The Broncos may have produced some of the game’s best players, but they have also given rugby league its share of larrikins. Check out the punch-ups, the protests, the hairstyles and the media scrutiny – even footage of a crowd-surfing coach! Here is three hours of everything you wanted to know about the Broncos, but never thought you’d see. Twenty years, six premierships, six captains, one remarkable coach – Brilliant! |
