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The AFL has come under fire over a highly questionable song choice many fans labelled 'highly inappropriate' to open the Brownlow Medal ceremony on Sunday night.
Aussie singer James Reyne, who rose to fame as the front man for cult rock band Australian Crawl, opened the count with the group's hit song 'The Boys Light Up', which features many graphic references to sex and drugs.
Fans were quick to slam the AFL for the bizarre and inappropriate choice to lead into footy's night of nights, which was broadcast at a kid-friendly time on Channel Seven.
Even the network's own footy pundit, Andy Maher, slammed the league over the choice of track.
Aussie singer James Reyne performs 'The Boys Light Up' at the beginning of the Brownlow Medal on Sunday night - a song choice deemed by many to be 'utterly inappropriate'
'Interesting opening tune for an AFL function like this. They do know it's not about playing footy at night time, don't they?' Maher wrote on Twitter, in a thought that was echoed by Aussie netball great Bianca Chatfield, who tweeted: 'I was just thinking the same'.
'The Boys Light Up' isn't a song with metaphors or hidden meanings; it is very obviously, and graphically, a song about sex, dildos, prostitutes and wild parties featuring drugs.
