Winning the premiership is without doubt the ultimate goal in football.
For some fans, they have been lucky enough to taste the sweet taste of success a handful of times in their lifetime. Others (myself included), have been starved of said success, with a weight of disappointment and mediocrity hanging over them instead.
The world was a very different place for a number of sides when they last tasted the ultimate success. So below, we have taken a look at what the world was like the last time your team were premiers of the AFL.
What did the world look like the last time your team won the flag? Have they even won one yet? Let us know in the comments!
Melbourne - 1964
The longest premiership drought in the AFL, times were a little different the last time Melbourne won a flag.
The third James Bond film 'Goldfinger' was out in theatres, as well as iconic classics like 'Mary Poppins' and 'Dr. Strangelove'.
Beatles fever had also well and truly struck. After the band formed in 1960, 1964 saw the hysteria grow internationally with a month long World Tour that stretched across Europe, Asia and America.
Sidney Poitier became the first African American to win an Oscar. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in the movie 'Lillies of the Field' in which he played a construction worker working on a chapel.
The Olympics were held in Tokyo, the last time Japanese capital had hosted the event prior to this year.
America was a country in unrest as protests against the Vietnam war and for the Civil Rights movement were carried out throughout the streets of many major cities.
