The day Meatloaf took AFL boss for a ride

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan says Meatloaf’s excuse for his 2011 grand final howler still doesn’t make any sense a decade on.

In his most lighthearted interview of the season, McLachlan also joked on Browny’s Podcast that he desperately wanted to liven up the formalities of Brownlow Medal with a few jokes but had “piked it” so far, but hasn’t ruled out a few in-jokes at the event in Perth on Sunday week.

McLachlan, who went down the Big Freeze slide this year dressed as Meatloaf, said he hadn’t been able to escape the controversial US singer, who was soundly criticised for his less than smooth grand final performance in 2011.

“He (Meatloaf) had a panic attack and then he retrospectively blamed it on the fact that he wanted 100 Harley Davidsons and he only got three (as part of the production),” McLachlan said on Browny’s Podcast.

“I don’t think there are 100 Harleys in all of Melbourne and the guys that have them weren’t giving them up.”

McLachlan confessed to Jonathan Brown and Campbell Brown that he had often thought about throwing in a few extra comments to break up the long and often laborious Brownlow Medal count.

“When you are someone as flippant as me, you often think about doing something with the names or numbers, and I have always pulled out,” McLachlan said.

“I always pike out.

“I did something last year that was a bit in-house, but no one picked up on. It is quite a serious event and I have always piked it.”