There's barely enough superlatives to describe a team good enough to win three premierships in a row. But what about one which not only achieves a three-peat, but does it the hard way three years straight, and just for good measure pulls off the most insane comeback in Grand Final history in the third and final leg?
That's the stuff of football immortality. And that's where Brisbane stands right now, having become only the second club in VFL/AFL history to win a second flag hat trick, following Melbourne in the mid-1950s.
The Demons, though, were dominant right through their second three-flag run between 1955-57. Brisbane has had to pull rabbit after rabbit out of the hat, in 2024 coming from fifth to victory, and last year bouncing back from a qualifying-final belting.
And now, this. Just three weeks ago, the Lions were absolutely smashed by Sydney to the tune of 53 points in a qualifying-final defeat which might have destroyed a team made of lesser stuff.
But what happened subsequently may never be bettered for drama or resilience in the midst of a finals campaign.
First, the Lions recovered their composure quickly enough to put Adelaide to the sword in a semifinal. Last week, they survived a withering Hawthorn comeback, trailing with little more than a minute left when Hugh McCluggage's tackle on Jarman Impey got them over the line.
That would have been more than enough September heroics to make this premiership very special regardless of what happened on Grand Final day. But now we have a win in the most important game of all which will be very hard to top.
A good 45 minutes after the final siren, it was still almost impossible to believe. With only four minutes 18 seconds left to play, Brisbane trailed by 17 points.
Remember that the biggest margin overhauled at three-quarter time of a Grand Final is only 23 points, in 1984. And Essendon had that deficit erased within eight minutes. How Brisbane conjured this Houdini trick is already the stuff of football legend.
Make no mistake. While Carlton's famous comeback from 44 points down at halftime of the 1970 Grand Final against Collingwood remains the gold standard of premiership-deciding revivals, this one, given the lateness of the hour, doesn't pale much in comparison.
The incredible Lions peeled off the last four goals of the game in just 250 seconds. The first, from Charlie Cameron didn't even provoke that much excitement from most of the 100,023 assembled, such was the feeling Fremantle was about to break its premiership duck.
That changed dramatically, however, when Zac Bailey snapped an amazing goal from a thicket of congestion with only another 24 seconds of play having elapsed. And then came Logan Morris.
Brisbane is replete with players who can have done very little throughout the course of a game and still win it. This week, it was the 21-year-old's turn.
Morris had had just eight disposals for 1.1 when, with 90-odd seconds left, he took the single most important mark of the game, a strong contested grab in front of Oscar McDonald. From 45 metres and with ice flowing through his veins, Morris put the Lions in front for the last time.
If that wasn't enough, he made sure of this famous win with a beautiful curling right foot snap from 35 metres. Seven points the difference now, just eight seconds left and game, set and match.
They just don't know how to quit, these Lions. They didn't when they overhauled a seven-goal deficit in a 2024 semifinal on their way to the first leg of this three-peat. They climbed off the canvas again that year's preliminary final.
Last week, they appeared to have blown another preliminary final until conjuring two goals in the last minute. And now a trick to top perhaps anything we've seen on the Grand Final stage.
"We probably thought it was starting to slip away, no doubt about it," Brisbane co-captain Hugh McCluggage told ESPN in the jubilant Lions' rooms after the game. "But we saw last week, this group just finds a way when it gets tough, and in a way it just felt like it was meant to be today after last week."
The sounding of "Wharfie Time" after Patrick Voss appeared to have clinched the premiership for the Dockers might have been a red rag to a bull for the Lions, but McCluggage said the incredible resolve goes back a lot further than that.
"We've done a lot of work over 10 years building our connection, building our brotherhood for moments like that," he said. "And it's a lot of butcher's paper sessions in the offseason, and days toiling down at Coorparoo in the heat, and it all pays off on days like this."
Coach Chris Fagan, sitting among the three premiership cups now literally with his fingerprints all over them, mirrored McCluggage's doubts with less than four-and-a-half minutes left on the clock.
"I thought we were in a little bit of trouble," he told ESPN with characteristic understatement. "The rate at which we were scoring during the game, it didn't look like it was going to happen. But, you know, we've got our strategies in place where if we've got to win the game, we'll roll the dice a little bit and try a few things. We're fortunate that we got the ball out in the middle, which is something we didn't really do all day.
"I just think over time we've just developed a great belief in ourselves. I feel like we're never out of it. So today was sort of like when it all came together, I suppose."
To say that sounded like someone reflecting on the culmination of a long-term project come to a successful conclusion might be an overstatement, but if Fagan does decide to pull the pin on the coaching caper, would any many man ever have gone out more on top than he?
"Oh well, I've been doing it for 10 years," he said. "It takes a lot out of you. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I sort of always had this idea that it would be good to walk away when you're on top rather than walking away when you're going no good at all."
No chance of that now. And what of the team he'd be leaving behind? They'll be in good hands whoever happened to take the reins. Because that coach will know first and foremost that not only is he in charge of the most talented and successful list in the AFL, he'll also be at the helm of a group that just doesn't know how to give up.
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