This one is particularly personal, but as it is my last day after 12 years, I reckon I can afford to be a little self indulgent. And hey, no-one is forcing you to read it.
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This is simply the most satisfying game of AFL football I have ever watched. Geelong had every reason to fall in a heap after a disastrous end to 2010. Their coach had walked out, their best player had walked out and their remaining stars were light of former days.
Chris Scott, a rookie coach who had been rejected by Port Adelaide, was charged with the task of pulling it all back together. There was every chance the Cats were entering a 'rebuilding stage'.
But the Cats had made a habit of winning without necessarily playing well, notching 14 straight successes under Scott before suffering their first loss.
Despite an imposing record, they were to play second fiddle to Collingwood for much of the season. Entering their Round 24 clash, Collingwood were red hot flag favourites.
Geelong hammered them to the tune of 96 points in that match, but even so Pies coach Mick Malthouse wasn't worried, satisfying the match wasn't relevant as the Pies already had sewn up top spot.
That night was the first serious sign that Collingwood was starting to get the wobbles. Three weeks later, they were 17 points down to Hawthorn at three-quarter time in a preliminary final and facing an embarrassing end to Malthouse's reign. They pulled off an amazing win to set up a Grand Final against the Cats, a clash of the previous two premiers
What evolved was quite simply a brilliant game of football, a classic Grand Final which did justice to both sides better attributes.
The first quarter was a tale of two Travises as Travis Varcoe's goaled within 15 seconds of the opening bounce and then added another, before Travis Cloke threatened to tear the Cats apart.
The Pies continued to control the game through most of the second quarter and led by 15 points in time on when Steele Sidebottom goaled. Late heroics from Joel Selwood and Jimmy Bartel pulled the margin to within a kick at the break.
I watched all this unfold from the secondary press box on the southern stand wing. It wasn't the greatest spot to watch a game of footy, let alone report on it, but I had good company in fellow Sportalite Gregor Mactaggart and now Sportalite, then AAP, Guy Hand. You wouldn't find too many better journalistic minds to watch a game with.
I was suffering from a quite painful knee complaint at the time, but that wasn't on my mind at half-time, my thoughts were on another injury, James Podsaidly's collarbone and how the Cats were going to fill the gap left by him up forward.
Tom Hawkins answered the question when he kicked three third quarter goals, the third of which was set-up by arguably the biggest play of the Grand Final. With the Cats' leading by two points, the ball went out on the wing where youngster Allen Christensen was faced with a two-on-one marking contest. The little man prevailed to set up the Cats' seven-point lead at the final change.
It was a breathless type of match and at three-quarter time it appeared it would either be a matter of one person taking control of the game or one team wilting under the intensity of the football being played.
As it turned out, it was both. Hawkins was unstoppable early in the final term, marking everything that was coming his way and tormenting the Collingwood defenders. The only thing he couldn't do was kick straight as he first two shots sailed wide.
After taking his third mark in the first four minutes of the quarter, this time at close range but on a tight angle, Hawkins opted to handball to Steve Johnson, who snapped to put the Cats up.
The match-sealer symbolised the Cats' relentless endeavour as Varcoe involved himself end-to-end to kill off the Pies' resistance. Collingwood failed to kick a goal in the final term.
I took tremendous joy in that win both as a journalist and as a fan. It wasn't just the fact that my team ascended to the top for the third time in five years, but the manner in which the win was achieved.
We are told as journalists to always barrack for the story. That was the best story to be told that day, and in my opinion many a day. That it involved my beloved Cats was just a superb coincidence.