ABC | Australian Rules superstar Tom Hawkins remembers playing a mediocre game of football a few years back after pulling a calf earlier that day.

He is not talking about pulling a calf muscle in his leg. The Geelong Cats player is talking about pulling out a cow's offspring.

While checking on the Angus cows on his farm outside of Geelong, Hawkins had noticed one was having trouble giving birth.

After yarding her, he spent considerable time and effort trying to extricate the calf, something he'd done successfully with similar cases in the past.

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