Perth great-grandmother Sylvia Prince rarely leaves her home - the "football mad" octogenarian is usually glued to her TV watching footy.
But on Friday, the 85-year-old West Coast tragic was one of thousands of football fanatics who joined the AFL grand final parade through Melbourne's city streets.
She made her way through morning drizzle amid seas of scarves, beanies, and flag-waving diehards to support her side as players in blue and yellow or black and white thrilled the masses en route to the MCG.
"I hope it's a good game, that's all I hope. Both sides will be nervous and they'll be trying and excited. That's all you can ask," Mrs Prince, who's nabbed tickets to Saturday's decider between West Coast and Collingwood, told AAP.
"The ones that come out to play on the day will win."
Mrs Prince says she's been a footy fan since the age of five.
"I never leave the house, I'm football mad. I go into withdrawal when we've finished for the season."
However for the past 15 years, she and daughter Cheryl Dragowski have made an annual visit to Melbourne to see a week of live matches.
"We never dreamed we'd get this far this year," Ms Dragowski said of the Eagles' late season surge.
"We were bringing mum to the march to tick it off the bucket list."
Melbourne mum and Collingwood supporter Elizabeth Bargas said she got her children John, 11, and Hope, nine, into football from their infancy.
In fact, the last time Collingwood won a premiership, it coincided with Hope's second birthday.
The trio don't have tickets to the grand final but will barrack for their team from home.
Ms Bargas said she wasn't sure which team would win.
"It's going to be a wet ground and West Coast isn't used to that," she added.
