Malcolm Blight reckons he has a Sherrin footy for a heart.

And that, according to Blight, is why he’s the latest official AFL legend.

People had been calling Blight a legend for decades but the AFL on Tuesday night made it official at the annual Hall of Fame function.

A premiership player and coach with a 50-year involvement in the game, Blight says he’s humbled at joining 26 other footballers with legend status.

“I just reckon there’s a Sherrin in the heart,” Blight said.

Six others were inducted into the hall of fame.

Former umpire Brett Allen, ex-Adelaide captain and current Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin, South Australian great John Halbert, St Kilda and Sydney forward Barry Hall, North Melbourne stalwart Anthony Stevens and Collingwood’s Ron Todd were inducted.

Hall said in his acceptance speech that he was still affected by the 2008 Brent Staker incident when he dropped his opponent with a vicious left cross, behind the play.

“I do a lot of speaking stuff and guys like to be guys and say ‘ah, that was great’. It’s just a load of crap, it wasn’t great,” Hall said.

“I’m a father now and I don’t want my boy seeing his dad do that.

“Brent Staker has to live with that. I’m sure if his mates are like mine, they remind him every day about it, maybe in a light-hearted way. But he has to live through that.

“People he doesn’t know will be reminding him of it, so that does bother me.

“I’ve apologised but Brent Staker has to live through that.”