From the cheap seats
The restless, inquiring minds in AFL commentary continue to provide us with a bewildering array of new terms.
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Leaping Larry
Sport columnist
Leaping Larry: From the cheap seats
Every so often, a footy commentator more than usually challenged for something pertinent to say during match coverage, will become jocularly expansive about the peculiarities of what they will invariably term "our great game".
Leaping Larry: From the cheap seats
You can't say footy has lost its humour. It may quite often be a long way from intentional, but that certainly doesn't mean it isn't there.
Footy execs say the darnedest things
It started when Leigh Matthews took to the Channel Seven airwaves and expressed the opinion that there wasn't the market support for two AFL teams in Queensland.
From the cheap seats
The highly scientific jargon of football commentary is like many of Melbourne's public buses – it waits for no man. This necessitates always keeping on top of the latest developments, lest one be left, like the proverbial bus passenger, stranded in a cloud of diesel.
From the cheap seats
As mentioned last week, a presumably unintentional peppery flavour has been quietly infiltrating football commentary.Â
Footy commentary fertilises the mind with information
Many football supporters belittle and ridicule the efforts of footy's commentators, which is exceptionally poor form no matter how right they are. Â
From the cheap seats
Anecdotal evidence, whether via old-fashioned human conversation or the general interweb gab-fest which has largely supplanted the former, suggests that Dermott Brereton would be among the most polarising of football commentators.
AFL invents the one-day grand final
Innovation is the very cornerstone of today's bustling, modern, dynamic Australian Football League. And even if that assertion has little real discernible meaning but sounds like something the bods at the AFL might tell their partners over the morning Corn Flakes, one of the things they most like to do is change stuff.
From the cheap seats
Port Adelaide's push towards China has opened the floodgates of cultural awareness.
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