Fevola, 27, won best on ground honours for his six-goal performance in the Victoria's 17-point win over the Dream Team at the MCG, ahead of Andrew McLeod, Peter Burgoyne, Brent Harvey and Adam Goodes.
The Carlton spearhead described the experience as "a pretty special honour", after overcoming a spate of off-field misdemeanours in recent times.
"I've had a few dark years at the footy club, and I think I played in a prelim (preliminary final) in my second year of footy and I can't really remember that," Fevola said after the game.
"To be picked for your state, it doesn't get any better than that. I haven't played in any premierships so hopefully I can say a premiership will be better further down the track.
"But that's right up there. It was pretty special."
Fevola said he was able to "lift" in the final stages of the game owing to the history and pride that comes with wearing the Big V.
"As I said in my speech after the game, E.J. [Whitten] would have been there and been pretty proud," he said.
"I came to his last game when he did the lap of honour when I was 14, and I always thought I'd love to run out for the Big V.
"I got a tape of that for Christmas and I used to watch it all the time, so it was pretty special to wear the jumper."
The 2006 Coleman Medallist said while he felt it significant to be able to rise on such a big-stage occasion, he was more proud of the fact he was invited to play in such elite company in the first place.
"To play well in a big game is probably pretty important, but to play alongside some of the players I played with and against in that game was pretty special," he said.
"They make a full forward's job pretty easy, when you've got [Chris] Judd, [Jimmy] Bartel and [Sam] Mitchell kicking it down your throat. I wouldn't want to be a backman out there.
"The crowd was awesome. I think there were only 70,000 but it sounded like 100,000 when the wave started going around".
Fevola said he was amused by the 69,294 strong crowd at times, especially when things became personal with a fan sitting near the fence.
"They were very good, the supporters. A Collingwood supporter yelled out from behind the goals that she hated me, but because I played for Victoria, she liked me, which was pretty funny.
"They were awesome, the fans."
Having now experienced the thrill of state football, Fevola said he hopes the AFL decides to give the concept a regular place in home-and-away calendars.
"Hopefully [we get to play] every year. Hopefully we put on a pretty big spectacle tonight and I think it was pretty well run and the AFL will be pretty happy with the way it went," he said.
"Hopefully, it will happen every year or every two years. Maybe every year because I'm getting a bit older now."
