- Pair were both playing with the Adelaide Crows
- Star would have got away with it if he hadn’t confessed
A well-known AFL star has dramatically admitted to a shocking act at a teammate’s birthday party 13 years ago that would’ve ended his career if he’d been caught doing it in 2024.
Bernie Vince was known as the smiling assassin during his 229-game AFL career but a few heated words with Patrick Dangerfield was about as controversial as he got during his time with the Crows and Demons.
However, the midfielder turned media personality has now confessed to urinating into beer glasses at fellow star Rory Sloane’s 21st birthday party with a bit of help from his late father.
Vince was drafted by Adelaide in 2005, making his AFL debut the following year before having his breakout season in 2009.
During that time he forged a strong relationship with Sloane, who would go on to co-captain the club in 2019 and become skipper from 2020-22.
Now Vince has decided to dob himself in for what he did at the 2011 party after it had remained a closely held secret until now.
Former Adelaide Crows and Melbourne star Bernie Vince (pictured) has confessed to a shocking act that has remained a closely guarded secret since 2011
Vince disgraced himself at his then-teammate Rory Sloane’s 21st birthday party (Sloane is pictured, right, with fellow Crows star Taylor Walker)
‘I’ll never talk about this again. This is the only time I can get this off my chest because we’re talking about [it], I don’t think we’ll go down this path again,’ he told SAFM’s Bernie & Emma G radio show.
‘The speeches were on right near the toilet door, and I was busting, and I was, oh, I should have gone. And then I didn’t realise there’s going to be three, four, five speeches.
‘So someone gave me the idea; “Oh, there’s a few empty schooner glasses here”.’
What Vince didn’t take into consideration was how much urine would be involved after a night on the beers.
‘There was one of those high tables with a tablecloth and I just peeled it up and it was discreet. No one sort of knew it until we were laughing, and I was just lining them up and I’m like, ‘I’m going to need more’,’ he said.
‘Filled up five or six [schooners]!’
It seemed like the perfect crime and Vince also admitted his late father had helped him out by handing him the empty glasses. However, neither of them thought to check for cameras.
‘I got caught. There was one of those bubble cameras at the establishment,’ Vince said.
Vince said his late father Tim (pictured together) helped him out by handing him the empty glasses he was relieving himself into
‘It was on, it was like the perfect camera right above and I was laughing and guess who was handing me the empty glasses.
‘My dad, my dear dad, who was there as well and a bloke out of the [footy] leadership group that ended up telling me off for it! He gave me the idea!’
Vince then explained why he chose to break his silence over the incident.
‘Now it’s off my chest, I feel better,’ he said.
‘And I tipped it out in the toilet after, and I got rid of the glass, so that was all good.
‘But I was made by the football club to go back and apologise to the function manager, and he made me watch the footage and you reckon I couldn’t hold in a laugh!’
