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39. Game One, 1992: NSW captain Ben Elias celebrates a 14–6 win with his mother despite being covered in blood from a head cut.  

It certainly was a different game in those days. Looking like a background dancer out of Michael Jackson's Thriller film clip didn't stop NSW rake and skipper Ben Elias from planting a couple of kisses on his mum and covering her in claret in the process to celebrate a hard fought 14-6 win at the SFS. It was a case of last man standing in this grimly contested affair, with Maroons forward Gary Larson being stretchered off in the first half and being joined on the sidelines by Queensland prop Steve Jackson, while NSW counterparts Bradley Clyde and Laurie Daley were also casualties in the bruising win that set the Blues on the path to a series win.