Not skinny but might as well have been!
I remember Otto in 2002, (by that stage a beefy lad with a number of years in the system completely embarrassing us as Richmond supporters!
The Scene:
Round 5, 2002 at the MCG versus Hawthorn
seated next to a person i knew from the Beaconsfield Hotel, the biggest tosser i knew from anywhere and a mad Hawthorn supporter!
It was Luke Hodge's first AFL game, and to make matters worse, this incident happened right in front of us - like we were only 4 rows from the fence Ponsford End, where the 50m arc meets the boundary line.
Ball crosses the line and Ottens decides to rough up the first gamer!
The next thing you know, there's the biggest Tiger on the field caught in a headlock applied by Luke Hodge the Hwthorn first gamer. We were close enough to see the veins sticking out of Ottens forehead as Hodge applied the squeeze. Close enough to see his eyeballs getting wider as he realised he wasn't able to break the hold! We saw his sweat, we saw his spit and worst of all we saw his meek surrender!
This Hawthorn tosser didn't say anything, which made it worse, he just kept giggling! Under my breath i thought "someone please help him, this is too embarrassing"!
Nobody did, Otto was caught like that until Hodge decided to let him go (probably a minute), it felt like an ice age, a leap ice age in fact!