Brendan Fevola described his six-goal best-on-ground performance for Victoria on Saturday night as the highlight of his career, saying he believes he has finally put his 'dark years' behind him.

The Blues' spearhead upstaged a Dream Team attack that had been hailed as the best in history by coach Mark Williams by booting goals in every quarter in the Vics' 17-point win on Saturday night.

Fevola's performance saw him awarded the Allen Aylett Medal for being best afield and also saw him win a legion of new fans amongst the near 70,000 crowd.

And for a man who has endured precious little success with his club team for the bulk of his career as well as often attracting headlines for the wrong reasons off it - it was a night to savour.

"This is probably the highlight of my career," Fevola said after the game.

"I have had a few dark years at the footy club and (the previous biggest game of my career) was a preliminary final (in 2000) and it was only my second year and I barely remember it."

"So I haven't played in a premiership and hopefully I will and that will be even better but (for now) to be picked and play well for your state - it doesn't get any better than that."

Fevola was thrilled with the support he received from the big MCG crowd, who came to life whenever the ball was in his vicinity.

"It sounded like there were 100,000 people there," he said.

"I even had a Collingwood supporter yell out over the fence that she hated me because I played for Carlton but now she liked me because I was playing for Victoria."

"That was pretty funny and the fans were very good to me."

While Fevola was the star of the one-off match to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Australian Rules Football, he admitted the Vics' all-star midfield made his job a lot easier.

"To play well in big games is pretty important but to play alongside some of the players I played alongside tonight was special."

"It makes a full-forward's job a lot easier when you have guys like (James) Bartel, (Chris) Judd and (Sam) Mitchell kicking the ball down your throat and I wouldn't have wanted to be a backman out there."

Fevola said he hoped the win would have made Victorian legend Ted Whitten proud, saying after the game he was still inspired by Whitten's farewell lap, just prior to his death, during the Vics' 1995 match against South Australia.

"EJ (Whitten) would have been proud, I came to that last game when he did the lap of honour when I was 14 and I always wanted to run out for the Big V after that."

Now Fevola just hopes there is not another nine-year gap between appearances for Victoria given this was the state's first match since 1999.

"We put on a good spectacle and hopefully it (state of origin) can happen every two years or maybe every year because I am getting a bit older now (Fevola is 27) and I want to play for Victoria again."