Dennis Cometti : AFL sports comentator

Legendary AFL commentator Dennis Cometti retired at the end of the 2016 football season. Famous for his ‘Cometti-isms’, spur-of-the-moment sporting quips, Dennis was the only commentator to have covered AFL from its inception as a national game. In his oral history interview, he shared insights from his 40-year career in sports broadcasting. Dennis Cometti started his radio career in Perth in 1968 as a Top 40 disc jockey for radio station 6KY. In the first clip from his oral history, Dennis discusses what radio was like in the 1960s. Then he talks about the chance phone call that led to an opportunity to commentate a state VFL game between Western Australia and Victoria at Subiaco Oval in the 1970s. It was his first foray into sports radio broadcasting. In the next segment Dennis discusses how he prepares for an AFL broadcast. Finally,  Dennis discusses humour in sports broadcasting and also his opinion that we often take AFL, and sport in general, too seriously.