Patrick Dangerfield’s well-received encore to his legacy-enhancing preliminary final game was a players-only performance in the showers post-match.

Geelong’s resident superstar – not even rock-star midfielder Bailey Smith challenges Dangerfield’s status at the Cattery – had his teammates in stitches as he recited, word for word, Jim Carrey’s opening scene in cult movie Ace Ventura: Pet Detective .

Geelong’s two biggest names, Patrick Dangerfield and Bailey Smith. Credit: AFL Photos

It’s the one where Carrey, as Ventura, does everything possible to destroy the glass item inside a package he is delivering, with the sole intention of rescuing a Shih Tzu from a man who stole the pooch from its actual owner.

“That was a close one, ladies and gentlemen. Unfortunately, in every contest,

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