By Alex Chapman For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:30 GMT, 24 February 2019 | Updated: 05:30 GMT, 24 February 2019
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Indigenous AFL star Eddie Betts has publicly shamed a social media user who called him and another Aboriginal player 'monkeys'.
Betts' club, the Adelaide Crows, shared a photo of their star forward with Hawks legend Shaun Burgoyne to the club's Instagram page on Friday as he arrived to Melbourne's Marvel Stadium for the AFLX exhibition competition.
But while most Crows' fans were adoring of their 32-year-old star, one social media user stood out of the crowd to vilify the three-time All-Australian.
AFL star Eddie Betts has publicly shamed a social media user who made a racial slur at him
'Monkey see monkey do,' the Instagram user going by the moniker ferris.pete wrote on the Crows' post.
Betts later uploaded the post to his own account, circling the comment in red.
'When will it stop why can't we just play footy,' he asked. 'Why can't we all just get along?'
The Instagram comment and the account behind it have since been deleted, but not before football players, personalities and anti-discriminatory bodies stepped in to support Betts.
Premiership player and former Bett's former teammate Patrick Dangerfield shared the post to his own account, calling the commenter a 'pathetic
