{"id":11575,"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/afl-superstar-films-an-emotional-message-of-support-for-eddie-betts\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T00:00:00","slug":"afl-superstar-films-an-emotional-message-of-support-for-eddie-betts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/afl-superstar-films-an-emotional-message-of-support-for-eddie-betts\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Superstar Films An Emotional Message Of Support For Eddie Betts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond Tiger <strong>Alex Rance<\/strong> has thrown his support behind vilified Crow <strong>Eddie Betts<\/strong>, saying Betts personifies everything that is great about AFL.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI\u2019ve been reflecting a bit about the weekend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Eddie-Betts-Calls-Out-Racist-Insult-On-Social-Media\">incident with Eddie Betts<\/a>,\u201d Rance says in a video message posted on Instagram. \u201cI still am so astounded and shocked that this still happens in society\u2026\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s so backward and unacceptable\u2026 why aren\u2019t we focussing on the love, respect and excitement and celebration that the game provides? Eddie Betts of all players is someone who you can always say brings that excitement and passion to our game.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt\u2019s so frustrating that at this point it\u2019s still happening in our society. I don\u2019t think the players can have a strong enough stance on this.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bj8LxBChUx0\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">   <p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bj8LxBChUx0\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When is this going to stop. Everyone has the opportunity to make it better. I\u2019m sorry this still happens @eddiebthe3rd keep lighting it up.<\/a><\/p> <p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alexrance\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> alexrance<\/a> (@alexrance) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2018-06-12T21:54:18+00:00\">Jun 12, 2018 at 2:54pm PDT<\/time><\/p><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond Tiger Alex Rance has thrown his support behind vilified Crow Eddie Betts, saying Betts personifies everything that is great about AFL. \u201cI\u2019ve been reflecting a bit about the weekend\u2019s incident with Eddie Betts,\u201d Rance says in a video message posted on Instagram. \u201cI still am so astounded and shocked that this still happens in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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