My Dad was a Footscray supporter, Mum Essendon. Me, when I went to primary school back in the late 60's, we had a visit from the Captain of Richmond Roger Dean, who kindly left us some RFC season tickets for games. Me, I jumped at it and even if I was only 7 at the time, I got to go and see the Tigers play pretty much for nothing the next 2 years, so I was hooked.
Of course, as I got older it helped considerably that the Tigers were winning flags and were feared by all and sundry in the VFL.
Pity the Tigers don't do the same thing today, go around to some of the schools and hand out a few season's tickets for the kids to go along to the football. Worked for me and a few of my then school chums, we're all Tigers thru and thru.