The Jack Dyer Story

They call him The Living Legend... before that CAPTAIN BLOOD ... and before that Young Jack Dyer.

The story of a battling Yarra Junction family who couldn't be suppressed.

How the Dyers fought and beat the great depression and the teenage football prodigy was discovered by Brother Peter - a rugged former rugby champ who became a Christian Brother convert and school sports coach.

Brother Peter moulded the player and unleashed him on an unsuspecting schoolboy champion. Thus blooded the young Dyer stormed through the roughest era of suburban football this country has known - where the teams were packed with criminals and had to win to live!

Jack Dyer takes you through these wild years of football mayhem and laces the narrative with the explosive anecdotes that has made him a legend.

From suburbia to the big time with the famous Richmond Tigers. How he quit Tigerland because of the Jealousy and disruption of jealous clubmates. The return, the j drama that unfolded before he arrived as a super player... Then the catastrophic knee injury that seemed to end his career - the agony and frustration of the comeback. How he changed his football doctrine to survive and become the blood-spattered Captain Blood who was to storm the high seas of football for 20 blood-curdling years.

The highs, the lows, and the champions he met and fought. The premierships. The ecstasy and the agony. Laced through these years is the story of his life away from football as a policeman and family man.

And after all that, the heart-warming days as he took the media by storm to become the Victorian State Government's No. 1 citizen. The wit and blunt honesty of the great man had the same government declare him THE state’s Living Legend. He certainly is just that.

This was his own great story as told by Jack Dyer and written by the man who knew him best Brian Hansen.