Dennis Cometti has been the life blood of football commentary for a generation; it has seen some great one liners that have turned into folklore that last in our heads for a long time. Checkside kick… nonchalant”. ", My favourite of Dennis' - "He went in optimistically and came out misty optically. 595 matching entries found. 1974, Australia v England at the Waca. I really hope Huddo takes over Friday nights. Bravo, Dennis Cometti: always accurate, always interesting and always above the pack.
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With me, everything's right on the table. 19 votes, 13 comments.
He's a seat of the pants poet. I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
– Australian identity
But to hold up a footy call against the best in world sport, Dennis in 1989 is without peer.
– Puns The argument can be mounted that in the commentary box the ‘this town ain’t big enough for the two of us’ theory reigns.
It has gone ahead of iconic deciders like 1966, 1970 and 1977, and for anyone aged 30-50 (and many others that fall outside that category) the instant response, when asked what’s the greatest grand final they’ve seen, will be “89”. I’ll be honest with you, Roar readers – I’m dead tired. Getting past Glenn Archer is still like trying to tiptoe past Mayfair and Park Lane with hotels. Don Scott, known as ‘hard-hitting’ in his commentary days, or as we all suspected ‘grumpy’, had a commentary style that was the opposite of his dress sense. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 69.7k members in the AFL community. ( Log Out / Bassett’s my man. There was a kind of footy xenophobia that Victorians displayed in the early years of going national and the attitude to Cometti was indicative. Being live Cometti has always been great at producing one lines that has kept him on TV for so long, very context dependent and not all jokes are understood by all members of the viewing audience, personally I love how Cometti can pull together a cataphoric reference to a football viewing audience to increase the enjoyment of the TV watching audience. As the final seconds ticked down and it became clear that the Hawks would hold on to win consecutive Premierships, Dennis spoke of the ‘dream of back to back pennants’. Mystery
I imagine him as the focussed athlete who had copped criticism, and that day, on the biggest stage, he was not leaving anything to chance.
Who better to patch up a line-up than Johnson & Johnson. Dennis Cometti Quotes. Showing search results for "Dennis Cometti" sorted by relevance. Matthew Clarke is a dinosaur thriving on climate change.
– In group membership His catchphrases are part of pop culture.
Famous for his ‘Cometti-isms’, spur-of-the-moment sporting quips, Dennis is the only commentator to have covered AFL from its inception as a national game. Key Quotes: I’d take ’89 Cometti and ’90s Friday night Bruce on their own over the duo every time.
He began his broadcasting career in his hometown of Perth and moved to Melbourne in 1970 to work at 3DB and play football for Footscray. His measured delivery matched the tone that Ablett had set.
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Title: Dennis Cometti commentary lines we will never forget Author: Daniel Fogarty Date: 10/9/2014.
In the ’89 grand final he was hyper critical of Geelong, which completely overshadowed anything else he said.
The game has been dissected and mythologised like no other match. One of Dennis Cometti’s most famous lines. Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller.
It remains one of the most memorable moments of my life (sad you may say), and while I loved footy immensely already, my heart was well and truly taken that day. Showing search results for "Dennis Cometti" sorted by relevance. Shit if English teachers want to get boys more interested, there's a wealth of simile and metaphor in Cometti commentary.
And perhaps the best, as Ablett recovered from a marking contest to rhythmically gather the ball as if that’s what he’d always planned before neatly snapping on his left, Cometti also didn’t need to break stride: “finds it on the ground, his eighth goal”. Kami tak menemukan resensi di tempat biasanya. Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. This article was originally published in 2012. – Inference
3,664 likes. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That may have been the ultimate kangaroo court.
Ed had an aura. He is always insightful, but that day he was the up and comer who was going to play the perfect calling game and as such had no time for any indulgence.
It is however interesting to note that Roberston was also second banana to MacAvaney in his mid-90s Friday night pomp. If you're going to have sex, use a condom. In for the Cats today, David and Steve Johnson.
Now with Channel Nine, he has the reputation of being the most distinctive, eloquent and beloved football commentators the game has ever known. The good old days. In later times he’s held the gravitas to expand editorially during his calls. Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work Last modified on Tue 11 Oct 2016 02.36 BST. Dennis Cometti Quotes & Sayings . New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
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He summed up what we were all thinking. Dustin Martin has been hailed as one of the AFL’s all-time greats but the Richmond superstar has been pipped to the Tigers’ best-and-fairest. Without disrespect to Lou in particular, if you watch back a Richards/Landy call from the mid-1980s and compared it to Cometti’s call of 89, you’d swear they were 25 years apart. It took skill to harness the chaos of the day while keeping belief that this match was great, and Dennis did it. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Show more. Becoming a Member of the Order of Australia has left legendary sports broadcaster Dennis Cometti in awe, but it was not the award itself that humbled him.
Title: Dennis Cometti commentary lines we will never forget
Eventually he begrudgingly admitted after Hocking smothered a Hawk kick in traffic , followed up by gathering, evading and kicking a goal, that “it wasn’t a bad goal”.
Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It was pointed out to me recently that I’ve reached that very nervous milestone of 99 Roar articles, not out. He acted as the conductor to the television-watching audience, making us believe too. He might be the only guy in the competition whose feet appear in his driver licence photo. What’s forgotten is that for all of the individual brilliance and unforgettable moments, it was a five-goal game for three and half quarters. Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller.
Dennis Cometti has been the life blood of football commentary for a generation; it has seen some great one liners that have turned into folklore that last in our heads for a long time. Checkside kick… nonchalant”. ", My favourite of Dennis' - "He went in optimistically and came out misty optically. 595 matching entries found. 1974, Australia v England at the Waca. I really hope Huddo takes over Friday nights. Bravo, Dennis Cometti: always accurate, always interesting and always above the pack.
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With me, everything's right on the table. 19 votes, 13 comments.
He's a seat of the pants poet. I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
– Australian identity
But to hold up a footy call against the best in world sport, Dennis in 1989 is without peer.
– Puns The argument can be mounted that in the commentary box the ‘this town ain’t big enough for the two of us’ theory reigns.
It has gone ahead of iconic deciders like 1966, 1970 and 1977, and for anyone aged 30-50 (and many others that fall outside that category) the instant response, when asked what’s the greatest grand final they’ve seen, will be “89”. I’ll be honest with you, Roar readers – I’m dead tired. Getting past Glenn Archer is still like trying to tiptoe past Mayfair and Park Lane with hotels. Don Scott, known as ‘hard-hitting’ in his commentary days, or as we all suspected ‘grumpy’, had a commentary style that was the opposite of his dress sense. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 69.7k members in the AFL community. ( Log Out / Bassett’s my man. There was a kind of footy xenophobia that Victorians displayed in the early years of going national and the attitude to Cometti was indicative. Being live Cometti has always been great at producing one lines that has kept him on TV for so long, very context dependent and not all jokes are understood by all members of the viewing audience, personally I love how Cometti can pull together a cataphoric reference to a football viewing audience to increase the enjoyment of the TV watching audience. As the final seconds ticked down and it became clear that the Hawks would hold on to win consecutive Premierships, Dennis spoke of the ‘dream of back to back pennants’. Mystery
I imagine him as the focussed athlete who had copped criticism, and that day, on the biggest stage, he was not leaving anything to chance.
Who better to patch up a line-up than Johnson & Johnson. Dennis Cometti Quotes. Showing search results for "Dennis Cometti" sorted by relevance. Matthew Clarke is a dinosaur thriving on climate change.
– In group membership His catchphrases are part of pop culture.
Famous for his ‘Cometti-isms’, spur-of-the-moment sporting quips, Dennis is the only commentator to have covered AFL from its inception as a national game. Key Quotes: I’d take ’89 Cometti and ’90s Friday night Bruce on their own over the duo every time.
He began his broadcasting career in his hometown of Perth and moved to Melbourne in 1970 to work at 3DB and play football for Footscray. His measured delivery matched the tone that Ablett had set.
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Title: Dennis Cometti commentary lines we will never forget Author: Daniel Fogarty Date: 10/9/2014.
In the ’89 grand final he was hyper critical of Geelong, which completely overshadowed anything else he said.
The game has been dissected and mythologised like no other match. One of Dennis Cometti’s most famous lines. Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller.
It remains one of the most memorable moments of my life (sad you may say), and while I loved footy immensely already, my heart was well and truly taken that day. Showing search results for "Dennis Cometti" sorted by relevance. Shit if English teachers want to get boys more interested, there's a wealth of simile and metaphor in Cometti commentary.
And perhaps the best, as Ablett recovered from a marking contest to rhythmically gather the ball as if that’s what he’d always planned before neatly snapping on his left, Cometti also didn’t need to break stride: “finds it on the ground, his eighth goal”. Kami tak menemukan resensi di tempat biasanya. Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. This article was originally published in 2012. – Inference
3,664 likes. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That may have been the ultimate kangaroo court.
Ed had an aura. He is always insightful, but that day he was the up and comer who was going to play the perfect calling game and as such had no time for any indulgence.
It is however interesting to note that Roberston was also second banana to MacAvaney in his mid-90s Friday night pomp. If you're going to have sex, use a condom. In for the Cats today, David and Steve Johnson.
Now with Channel Nine, he has the reputation of being the most distinctive, eloquent and beloved football commentators the game has ever known. The good old days. In later times he’s held the gravitas to expand editorially during his calls. Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work Last modified on Tue 11 Oct 2016 02.36 BST. Dennis Cometti Quotes & Sayings . New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
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He summed up what we were all thinking. Dustin Martin has been hailed as one of the AFL’s all-time greats but the Richmond superstar has been pipped to the Tigers’ best-and-fairest. Without disrespect to Lou in particular, if you watch back a Richards/Landy call from the mid-1980s and compared it to Cometti’s call of 89, you’d swear they were 25 years apart. It took skill to harness the chaos of the day while keeping belief that this match was great, and Dennis did it. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Show more. Becoming a Member of the Order of Australia has left legendary sports broadcaster Dennis Cometti in awe, but it was not the award itself that humbled him.
Title: Dennis Cometti commentary lines we will never forget
Eventually he begrudgingly admitted after Hocking smothered a Hawk kick in traffic , followed up by gathering, evading and kicking a goal, that “it wasn’t a bad goal”.
Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It was pointed out to me recently that I’ve reached that very nervous milestone of 99 Roar articles, not out. He acted as the conductor to the television-watching audience, making us believe too. He might be the only guy in the competition whose feet appear in his driver licence photo. What’s forgotten is that for all of the individual brilliance and unforgettable moments, it was a five-goal game for three and half quarters. Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller.
Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller. A bit of Sandy Roberts was about as radical as it got.
So if this call was going to live up to the match, Dennis needed to carry it. – Dennis Cometti has been the voice of football and the identity of televised AFL for generations Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account.
And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something. Dennis Cometti has confirmed he will retire at the end of this AFL season. ( Log Out /
His catchphrases are part of pop culture.
Channel Seven recently featured the 1989 grand final on Footy Flashbacks. Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
In the 1991 second Semi Final, he lambasted Hocking for three quarters despite the fact that he was keeping the Cats in the game. "West coast are playing the Blues like BB King" - was one of my favs one day while watching west coast make carlton look like school children. He was ‘centimetre perfect’ from siren to siren. Part of it was the sudden transition between the safe days of the VFL – Louie and Peter Landy, Bobby Skilton.
Dennis Cometti has been the life blood of football commentary for a generation; it has seen some great one liners that have turned into folklore that last in our heads for a long time. Checkside kick… nonchalant”. ", My favourite of Dennis' - "He went in optimistically and came out misty optically. 595 matching entries found. 1974, Australia v England at the Waca. I really hope Huddo takes over Friday nights. Bravo, Dennis Cometti: always accurate, always interesting and always above the pack.
Related Topics. All rights reserved.
With me, everything's right on the table. 19 votes, 13 comments.
He's a seat of the pants poet. I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
– Australian identity
But to hold up a footy call against the best in world sport, Dennis in 1989 is without peer.
– Puns The argument can be mounted that in the commentary box the ‘this town ain’t big enough for the two of us’ theory reigns.
It has gone ahead of iconic deciders like 1966, 1970 and 1977, and for anyone aged 30-50 (and many others that fall outside that category) the instant response, when asked what’s the greatest grand final they’ve seen, will be “89”. I’ll be honest with you, Roar readers – I’m dead tired. Getting past Glenn Archer is still like trying to tiptoe past Mayfair and Park Lane with hotels. Don Scott, known as ‘hard-hitting’ in his commentary days, or as we all suspected ‘grumpy’, had a commentary style that was the opposite of his dress sense. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 69.7k members in the AFL community. ( Log Out / Bassett’s my man. There was a kind of footy xenophobia that Victorians displayed in the early years of going national and the attitude to Cometti was indicative. Being live Cometti has always been great at producing one lines that has kept him on TV for so long, very context dependent and not all jokes are understood by all members of the viewing audience, personally I love how Cometti can pull together a cataphoric reference to a football viewing audience to increase the enjoyment of the TV watching audience. As the final seconds ticked down and it became clear that the Hawks would hold on to win consecutive Premierships, Dennis spoke of the ‘dream of back to back pennants’. Mystery
I imagine him as the focussed athlete who had copped criticism, and that day, on the biggest stage, he was not leaving anything to chance.
Who better to patch up a line-up than Johnson & Johnson. Dennis Cometti Quotes. Showing search results for "Dennis Cometti" sorted by relevance. Matthew Clarke is a dinosaur thriving on climate change.
– In group membership His catchphrases are part of pop culture.
Famous for his ‘Cometti-isms’, spur-of-the-moment sporting quips, Dennis is the only commentator to have covered AFL from its inception as a national game. Key Quotes: I’d take ’89 Cometti and ’90s Friday night Bruce on their own over the duo every time.
He began his broadcasting career in his hometown of Perth and moved to Melbourne in 1970 to work at 3DB and play football for Footscray. His measured delivery matched the tone that Ablett had set.
AFL: The home of Australian football on Reddit, including the Australian Football League, and all other aspects of the game.
Title: Dennis Cometti commentary lines we will never forget Author: Daniel Fogarty Date: 10/9/2014.
In the ’89 grand final he was hyper critical of Geelong, which completely overshadowed anything else he said.
The game has been dissected and mythologised like no other match. One of Dennis Cometti’s most famous lines. Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller.
It remains one of the most memorable moments of my life (sad you may say), and while I loved footy immensely already, my heart was well and truly taken that day. Showing search results for "Dennis Cometti" sorted by relevance. Shit if English teachers want to get boys more interested, there's a wealth of simile and metaphor in Cometti commentary.
And perhaps the best, as Ablett recovered from a marking contest to rhythmically gather the ball as if that’s what he’d always planned before neatly snapping on his left, Cometti also didn’t need to break stride: “finds it on the ground, his eighth goal”. Kami tak menemukan resensi di tempat biasanya. Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all. This article was originally published in 2012. – Inference
3,664 likes. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That may have been the ultimate kangaroo court.
Ed had an aura. He is always insightful, but that day he was the up and comer who was going to play the perfect calling game and as such had no time for any indulgence.
It is however interesting to note that Roberston was also second banana to MacAvaney in his mid-90s Friday night pomp. If you're going to have sex, use a condom. In for the Cats today, David and Steve Johnson.
Now with Channel Nine, he has the reputation of being the most distinctive, eloquent and beloved football commentators the game has ever known. The good old days. In later times he’s held the gravitas to expand editorially during his calls. Anyone can contribute to The Roar and have their work Last modified on Tue 11 Oct 2016 02.36 BST. Dennis Cometti Quotes & Sayings . New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
595 matching entries found. ( Log Out /
He summed up what we were all thinking. Dustin Martin has been hailed as one of the AFL’s all-time greats but the Richmond superstar has been pipped to the Tigers’ best-and-fairest. Without disrespect to Lou in particular, if you watch back a Richards/Landy call from the mid-1980s and compared it to Cometti’s call of 89, you’d swear they were 25 years apart. It took skill to harness the chaos of the day while keeping belief that this match was great, and Dennis did it. Available for everyone, funded by readers. Show more. Becoming a Member of the Order of Australia has left legendary sports broadcaster Dennis Cometti in awe, but it was not the award itself that humbled him.
Title: Dennis Cometti commentary lines we will never forget
Eventually he begrudgingly admitted after Hocking smothered a Hawk kick in traffic , followed up by gathering, evading and kicking a goal, that “it wasn’t a bad goal”.
Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It was pointed out to me recently that I’ve reached that very nervous milestone of 99 Roar articles, not out. He acted as the conductor to the television-watching audience, making us believe too. He might be the only guy in the competition whose feet appear in his driver licence photo. What’s forgotten is that for all of the individual brilliance and unforgettable moments, it was a five-goal game for three and half quarters. Dennis Cometti holds an esteemed view in the football world today, more universally loved today than any other caller.
