Editing Russell Ebert (section)

====Other matches====
Ebert also played 29 interstate/[[Representative matches in Australian rules football|State of Origin]] matches for [[South australia australian rules football team|South Australia]] and one pre-season/night series match for North Melbourne (these are considered senior by the SANFL but not the VFL/AFL). If these are included, Ebert played a total of 447 senior career games.

The VFL/AFL and SANFL list Ebert's total as 446, excluding his pre-season/night series match for North Melbourne.

Regardless of the differing viewpoints, Ebert's total was the all-time record in elite Australian rules football at the time of his retirement, and Australian Prime Minister [[Bob Hawke]] wrote Ebert a letter congratulating him on his achievement.<ref>Wood, John (1991). ''Bound For Glory: The Story of the Port Adelaide Football Club 1939–1990''. Largs Bay, South Australia: Largs Bay Printers. p.&nbsp;190. {{ISBN|0959316213}}.</ref>

Ebert held the record until it was broken by [[Peter Carey (Australian rules footballer)|Peter Carey]] in either Round 6 or Round 7 of 1988; Carey retired at the end of that season with a total of 467 senior career games.

Ebert played in the inaugural [[E. J. Whitten Legends Game]] in 1996.<ref>{{Citation |title=1996 Centenary Legends Match (full game) | date=April 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOmbBZ4NuZw |access-date=2023-04-02 |language=en}}</ref>