From skewering the football industry to finding themselves oddly ensconced within it, the Coodabeen Champions bow out of broadcasting with a remarkable and unlikely legacy.
Waaaaaaaahhhh! No more footy songs! No-one will ever beat beat the 6.15 from Hurstbridge for peak Melbourne.
Conversation had drifted to predicting the finer details of the following day’s Collingwood vs Brisbane 2023 AFL Grand Final and was, by Richardson’s reckoning, in danger of becoming Serious Football Talk — something to be warily avoided.
The topic quickly swung back to a shared reverence for Ron ‘Tank’ Kneebone, an obscure 1960s South Australian footballer, and someone far more befitting the Coodabeens MO.
For 43 years, some form of the program has aired, somewhere, on wireless radio — transmitting a simultaneous love for Australian Rules Football and a willing rejection of the silliness that surrounds it.
With little planning, their cobbled together mix of cliché-skewering jokes, updates from lesser leagues, Greg Champion’s gag-laden footy songs and a more general celebration of football characters found a growing Saturday morning audience.
The sight of curls of steam wisping from mid-morning cups of tea while the Coodabeens broadcast next to country football grounds has been repeated in communities around Australia.
Before Ollie Wines was a star Port Adelaide midfielder, his Saturday mornings were spent like so many other country kids — being driven from Echuca to nearby sporting grounds with the Coodabeens crackling on the car radio.
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Conversation had drifted to predicting the finer details of the following day’s Collingwood vs Brisbane 2023 AFL Grand Final and was, by Richardson’s reckoning, in danger of becoming Serious Football Talk — something to be warily avoided.
The topic quickly swung back to a shared reverence for Ron ‘Tank’ Kneebone, an obscure 1960s South Australian footballer, and someone far more befitting the Coodabeens MO.
For 43 years, some form of the program has aired, somewhere, on wireless radio — transmitting a simultaneous love for Australian Rules Football and a willing rejection of the silliness that surrounds it.
With little planning, their cobbled together mix of cliché-skewering jokes, updates from lesser leagues, Greg Champion’s gag-laden footy songs and a more general celebration of football characters found a growing Saturday morning audience.
The sight of curls of steam wisping from mid-morning cups of tea while the Coodabeens broadcast next to country football grounds has been repeated in communities around Australia.
Before Ollie Wines was a star Port Adelaide midfielder, his Saturday mornings were spent like so many other country kids — being driven from Echuca to nearby sporting grounds with the Coodabeens crackling on the car radio.
The original article contains 1,185 words, the summary contains 190 words. Saved 84%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!