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I'm Rex Hunt and you're not .
The ABC on Saturday nights would have their own Footy Show - used to be up against the Big League on 7 and Young Talent Time on 10.
Tim Lane was the host, but, the dulcet tones of Ian Robertson, Doug Heywood, Doug Bigelow, Ian Cleland, "Skeeter" Coghlan, Gareth Andrews and Geoff Leek was quite good. it would review the days games and feature some highlights.
The other I remember fondly was VFA Sunday on Channel 0 then Channel 10. Often the Sydney games or Army Reserve Cup games on 7 weren't that great, so over to 10 and you can bank on seeing a brawl! As I grew up in the 80's, the team of Rex Hunt, Bruce McAvaney, Eddie McGuire and Stephen Quartermain was good to listen to.
I've just been loaned a copy of "Heart of the game" commemorating 45 years of footy on TV. 1957 - 2002.
It includes a list of every footy show by year with details of channel, day, time and length.
Other old shows from the Fox Footy Days
Grumpy Old Men - Bob Davis and a couple of other ex footballers reminiscing
The Collectors - an Antiques Roadshow style show where a valuer would visit people's places and value their football memorabilia.
Oh Yep and one of the main instigators of on field brawls went on to become an MP for a seat once held by an ex PM.
The VFA had the best on field fights, some even flowed onto the crowd. I'm old enough to vaguely remember a dust up in 1976 between Sandringham v Oakleigh (help me there) where the crowd got stuck into it as well. Who remembers the older lady, Thelma, that used to go to the televised games and would bring the commentators bikkies and cakes etc. In fact Don Scott went to her funeral.
But who could ever forget the grand final played later that year-Port v Dandenong, Port's Fred Cook KO'd by Dandy's Darryl Harper; the late Eddie Melai (as Dandenong's runner) laying into a couple of Port players; one of Port's trainers in tears of seeing Cook out for the count; Harper king-hitting Port captain-coach Norm Brown. Channel 10's Phil Gibbs must've thought all his Christmases had come at once.
Who remembers Cometti Live? Lasted one year in 2002
Sportswatch. Hosted by Bruce McAvaney. A great concept. Just screaned at the time the footy was on Ch10 and Ch2. Had Dunstall as one of the experts on the footy side of things.
And it also had John Harker on it as well, which blew my mind because before then I just knew him as the Napisan guy. Didn't realise he was more than an actor.
Yeah, the concept has legs and has worked overseas. We might see it again.
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I got invited to a kids house when I was 9 or 10 to play Kick to Kick with Wayne Carey in their weekly segment.
Sheedy, Archer and Anthony Stevens were all there too iirc.
Had some story where Sheedy was pretending to be Carey and revealed his treachery by removing a mask but I was too young to really pay attention.
Harker was a Seven man for years. I first came across him when Melbourne got Sportsworld on Sunday mornings and he was in Sydney.
I think he always got the water polo when the Olympics rolled around (like how Peter Landy always got the rowing).