Much-loved Port Adelaide figure Peter Burgoyne has been honoured with induction into the club's Hall of Fame following two premierships and 276 senior games at the club.
Port announced four new inclusions, including their 2004 AFL premiership side, at a gala event on Thursday night.
Burgoyne arrived at Alberton while still a teenager before an apprenticeship with Port's SANFL outfit - including seniors and reserves premierships, and broke into the AFL team in the years following the Powers' 1997 entry into the national competition.
By the end of his career, Burgoyne had served as a mercurial forward, midfielder and running half back across 14 seasons at the club between 1996-2019, collecting a Showdown Medal (2003), two International Rules series and inclusion in football's Indigenous Team of the Century.
The Darwin product was elevated to legend status in the NT Football Hall of Fame in 2012.
Speaking on Thursday night, Burgoyne said he and a few others who would end up leading the club through a successful early-2000s period avoided going into the draft "because we had so much love for Port Adelaide".
His dad, Peter Snr, had also played with the Magpies, making for three generations with son Jase making his AFL for the Power in 2022, and other son, Trent, a past father-son recruit to the club.
Younger brother Shaun - who became the first Indigenous player, and fifth player overall, to reach 400 career games, lived with him and would join him at the Power.
The pair played with one another in the club's successful 2004 AFL grand final over Brisbane.
Burgoyne said the "love" of supporters kept him at the club for his entire professional career.
He also credited 1999-2010 coach Mark Williams for developing his self-belief and success as a player.
The Power were a dominant force in the early 2000s claiming three-consecutive minor premierships between 2002-2004, but would only snap Brisbane's grand final run in the last of those years.
Burgoyne issued a piece of advice for current players.
"Brisbane…they're put up there as the best team of all time…we just kept beating them," he said.
"But for some reason they just kept getting over the line in finals. We ended up pinching one, which I was happy with, but I think that we probably should have got two.
"The business end starts in the finals. So that's a big message for the team now, and the squad now. You can win as many games as you want and you can be on top of the world, but it means nothing if you don't win finals."
Burgoyne also paid tribute to his mum on stage.
"If it wasn't for mum. And her toughness ...myself and my brother probably would not have got to where we are. My mum...she was the backbone of the family."
Burgoyne, and fellow Indigenous players Gavin Wanganeen, Byron Pickett and his brother were separately included in the Hall of Fame as members of Port's 2004 premiership side.
