Editing Spectacular mark (section)

==In popular culture==
{{see also|Australian rules football in Australian popular culture}}
[[File:Fremantle Oval Statue.jpg|thumb|200px|Statue by [[Robert Hitchcock]] outside [[Fremantle Oval]] of [[South Fremantle Football Club|South Fremantle]]'s [[John Gerovich]] taking a "specky" over [[East Fremantle Football Club|East Fremantle]]'s Ray French in the 1956 [[West Australian Football League|WANFL]] preliminary final]]
The specky has been widely celebrated in Australian popular culture. The phrase "the big men fly" is invariably used to describe speckies and [[ruckman (Australian rules football)|ruckmen]] contesting a [[ball-up]], and has even spawned a [[And the Big Men Fly|play of the same name]], written by [[Alan Hopgood]] and first staged in 1963. [[Alex Jesaulenko]]'s famous specky in the [[1970 VFL Grand Final]] gave rise to the catchphrase "[[Alex Jesaulenko#"Oh Jesaulenko, you beauty!"|Jesaulenko, You Beauty!]]". Songs such as [[Mike Brady (musician)|Mike Brady]]'s "[[Up There Cazaly]]" (1979) also celebrate the popular spectator phenomenon. In his poem "The High Mark", [[Bruce Dawe]] sees the specky as an expression of the human aspiration to fly. The poem ends with a footballer falling "back to Earth"—a "guernseyed [[Icarus]]".<ref>[http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1999/sportsf/sf990312.htm "ABC Radio National – The Sports Factor Transcript – 12 March 1999"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722013607/http://fulltext.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1999/sportsf/sf990312.htm |date=22 July 2012 }}. Retrieved 24 June 2012.</ref>

There is also a popular series of football-themed children's novels, co-written by [[Felice Arena]] and AFL star [[Garry Lyon]], named ''[[Specky Magee]]''.