Warragul and Bairnsdale football netball clubs teamed up to help raise almost $100,000 for a great cause going beyond the confines of the sporting field.
Local celebrities dressed up and took the plunge into the icy water during the Bairnsdale-run "DIY Big Freeze" on Saturday, raising money for charity FightMND.
A curtain-raiser for the senior football match, the event is now an annual rural edition of the famous Big Freeze, held before the traditional King's birthday AFL match between Melbourne and Collingwood.
It meant the Bairnsdale City Oval was alive with people as they celebrated Bairnsdale's achievements for the fight against motor neurone disease.
For Warragul, head of football operations Dean Hendrikse joined in the fun with senior football coach Jed Lamb.
Hendrikse donned his old Gulls guernsey alongside a thick mullet, hair flying as he took to the slide.
Lamb, meanwhile, enjoyed a tongue-in-cheek turn as former Richmond star Bachar Houli - the man who knocked Lamb unconscious during an AFL match in 2017 - after getting permission from Houli for the idea.
And while the senior football result eventually went against the Gulls, the amount raised showed the power that local sport can have on a community and the power it can command.
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