Kevvie opens up about family and crazy Alfie stories in an emotional conversation, saying “Mum invented the sin bin.”
In a gripping edition of Fox League’s Face to Face, Brisbane Broncos coach Kevin Walters talked candidly about his relationship with NSW great Tommy Raudonikis, his family, and some amusing stories about Alfie Langer. Walters told Yvonne Sampson about how his family watched the legendary Arthur Beetson go wild at Laing Park during the inaugural State of Origin game.
“We were no chance of getting tickets,” Walters stated. With a pair of pliers in hand, (dad) made a hole in the fence. Together with perhaps ten thousand other Queenslanders, we all just climbed through. It was during the full day! Something else that stuck with me was being there when Arthur Beetson bolted out. He continued, “I can still see it and hear the Queenslanders’ noise.
I had just turned thirteen. All I can recall is how passionate he was about NSW. They all believed he was too elderly. With an intensity that no one had ever seen coming from Queensland, he simply decimated New South Wales. “I remember wanting to do that myself one day and remembering going home in the back seat of that yellow (Holden) Kingswood from that point on.”
He spent his childhood playing a lot of rugby league in the backyard with his four brothers and occasionally Alfie Langer. “In the garden, we engaged in competition! The sin bucket was originally invented by mum. She used to haul out the hose and hose us down to cool us off if it got a little hot. Alright, time out here,’ she would remark. Until you play normally and don’t argue with each other, you aren’t playing.
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