David Pittman (born 23 February 1969) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

Adelaide Crows The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia that was founded in 1990. The Crows have fielded a men's team in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 199 ...

in the

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(AFL). Originally from

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...

(SANFL) club Norwood, Pittman was drafted by Essendon in the 1989 VFL Draft but played no games for them. He was traded to Adelaide in 1991 and made his AFL debut with Adelaide in

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

, playing as a ruckman. Pittman is sometimes remembered for an incident early in the

1997 AFL season The 1997 AFL season was the 101st season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season ran from 27 ...

where Adelaide coach

Malcolm Blight Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Woodville Football Club in the South Australian Na ...

labelled his effort "pathetic" after a game at the

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. The 1997 season turned out to be one of Pittman's most successful as he moved between

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and the ruck playing an important part in the Crows' premiership side that year. Pittman also played in the

1998 AFL Grand Final The 1998 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Adelaide Crows and the North Melbourne Kangaroos, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1998. It was the 102nd annual grand fina ...

, winning his second premiership. At the end of

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

, Pittman retired having played 131 games for 34 goals and 5 games for South Australia.

Statistics

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

, , 15 , , 17 , , 1 , , 1 , , 51 , , 95 , , 146 , , 43 , , 17 , , 130 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 3.0 , , 5.6 , , 8.6 , , 2.5 , , 1.0 , , 7.6 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

, , 15 , , 20 , , 1 , , 2 , , 78 , , 85 , , 163 , , 61 , , 12 , , 69 , , 0.1 , , 0.1 , , 3.9 , , 4.3 , , 8.2 , , 3.1 , , 0.6 , , 3.5 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

, , 15 , , 18 , , 9 , , 2 , , 117 , , 116 , , 233 , , 59 , , 20 , , 307 , , 0.5 , , 0.1 , , 6.5 , , 6.4 , , 12.9 , , 3.3 , , 1.1 , , 17.1 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

, , 15 , , 19 , , 8 , , 8 , , 119 , , 132 , , 251 , , 83 , , 10 , , 338 , , 0.4 , , 0.4 , , 6.3 , , 6.9 , , 13.2 , , 4.4 , , 0.5 , , 17.8 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

, , 15 , , 23 , , 4 , , 7 , , 149 , , 89 , , 238 , , 65 , , 13 , , 317 , , 0.2 , , 0.3 , , 6.5 , , 3.9 , , 10.3 , , 2.8 , , 0.6 , , 13.8 , - style="background-color: #EAEAEA" ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

, , 15 , , 18 , , 5 , , 4 , , 75 , , 59 , , 134 , , 36 , , 10 , , 229 , , 0.3 , , 0.2 , , 4.2 , , 3.3 , , 7.4 , , 2.0 , , 0.6 , , 12.7 , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" ,

, , 15 , , 15 , , 6 , , 4 , , 90 , , 56 , , 146 , , 45 , , 3 , , 262 , , 0.4 , , 0.3 , , 6.0 , , 3.7 , , 9.7 , , 3.0 , , 0.2 , , 17.5 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan=3, Career ! 131 ! 34 ! 28 ! 680 ! 635 ! 1315 ! 393 ! 85 ! 1665 ! 0.3 ! 0.2 ! 5.2 ! 4.8 ! 10.0 ! 3.0 ! 0.6 ! 12.7

References

Adelaide Football Club players Adelaide Football Club premiership players 1969 births Living people Norwood Football Club players South Australian State of Origin players Australian rules footballers from South Australia VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{AFL-bio-1960s-stub