Roast Media Shakes Head, Part 7

[NoddyHolder]

Bob Byrne, writing in today's Monopoly Times did a feature piece on KG Cunningham. It basically tells the world what a great guy Cunningham is. I may have missed it but the article does not mention the day this icon of the airwaves was booed out of Alberton Oval. I think it is fair to say not every SA football fan thinks Cunningham is God's gift to SA sport.

I cannot find a link to the article as it is not on the Adelaide Now site. Maybe that is just as well.

Don't worry about a link. I can live without finding out what a great guy Cagey 'Ken' Cunningham is

 

[Steve Dore]

Bob Byrne, writing in today's Monopoly Times did a feature piece on KG Cunningham. It basically tells the world what a great guy Cunningham is. I may have missed it but the article does not mention the day this icon of the airwaves was booed out of Alberton Oval. I think it is fair to say not every SA football fan thinks Cunningham is God's gift to SA sport.

I cannot find a link to the article as it is not on the Adelaide Now site. Maybe that is just as well.

 

[raptalia]

Don't worry about a link. I can live without finding out what a great guy Cagey 'Ken' Cunningham is

Yeah, Joseph Goebbels could not have done better.

One thing mentioned in the article is that one day in 1977 Cunningham had the offer of the SA Cricket Captaincy on the same day he was offered the job at 5DN by Program Manager Paul Linkson. According to KG he had to turn the SA Captaincy down as 5DN told him he could not do both jobs and his wife convinced him to take the radio job. It is more like the old boys at the SACA withdrew the Captaincy when they found our their man was going to be on air 5 days a week washing dirty linen.

 

[Pear1870]

..........was booed out of Alberton Oval ....

........with a Police escort.

From that space in between the two grandstands without being surrounded by police, he would not have made it to his car. Never seen the crowd so angry.

 

[afl2004]

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Odd jerk off material for kg

 

[Steve Dore]

........with a Police escort.

From that space in between the two grandstands without being surrounded by police, he would not have made it to his car. Never seen the crowd so angry.

For those too young to remember

 

[Steve Dore]

Odd jerk off material for kg

John Denver?

 

[Papa G]

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Knee high socks with shorts. Thank Christ that's not a thing anymore. Apart from looking completely rude, always thought it sorta defeated the purpose of wearing shorts in the first place.

 

[Pear1870]

I moved to Sydney for a few years in 1986 and took my long white socks for when summer arrived. Wore them to work on the first hot day and was told by a female colleague, (7 hours later at about 4.00 in the afternoon), that men had not been worn long socks in Sydney for a good five years. Went home feeling very South Australian and tossed five (good) pairs in the bin.

Not known to me, a photo of my legs had been taken and submitted in the company news letter, Xmas edition. However, i did win the "office sexy legs award" introduced for that year only so it wasn't all bad.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Yeah, Joseph Goebbels could not have done better.

One thing mentioned in the article is that one day in 1977 Cunningham had the offer of the SA Cricket Captaincy on the same day he was offered the job at 5DN by Program Manager Paul Linkson. According to KG he had to turn the SA Captaincy down as 5DN told him he could not do both jobs and his wife convinced him to take the radio job. It is more like the old boys at the SACA withdrew the Captaincy when they found our their man was going to be on air 5 days a week washing dirty linen.

I was a kid at the time, but I remember it was announced he was going to do a Bobby Simpson and asked to lead the SA kids after Packer cricket raided a few SA shield players. Then it was announced he had rejected the offer and I couldn't understand why as it was never explained.

 

[raptalia]

I was a kid at the time, but I remember it was announced he was going to do a Bobby Simpson and asked to lead the SA kids after Packer cricket raided a few SA shield players. Then it was announced he had rejected the offer and I couldn't understand why as it was never explained.

That sounds about right as KG would have been 38 at the time and Simpson was close to 41 when he resumed the Australian Captaincy. The SACA finished up going for Greg Blewett's father Bob instead. I also wondered why KG pulled out at the time it was particularly puzzling as Cunningham was close to Bradman.

 

[finbarr]

Knee high socks with shorts. Thank Christ that's not a thing anymore. Apart from looking completely rude, always thought it sorta defeated the purpose of wearing shorts in the first place.

Oh, it's still a thing baby. And it's freakin' badass!

 

[Grave Danger]

I moved to Sydney for a few years in 1986 and took my long white socks for when summer arrived. Wore them to work on the first hot day and was told by a female colleague, (7 hours later at about 4.00 in the afternoon), that men had not been worn long socks in Sydney for a good five years. Went home feeling very South Australian and tossed five (good) pairs in the bin.

Not known to me, a photo of my legs had been taken and submitted in the company news letter, Xmas edition. However, i did win the "office sexy legs award" introduced for that year only so it wasn't all bad.

There was a bloke at my footy/cricket club who used to wear the shorts and long socks all year round - it looked quite comical in the depths of winter when he'd have big fleecy jacket on, but still in his shorts.

 

[bomberclifford]

Oh, it's still a thing baby. And it's freakin' badass!

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[Eighteen Seventy]

........with a Police escort.

From that space in between the two grandstands without being surrounded by police, he would not have made it to his car. Never seen the crowd so angry.

For those of us too young to remember, can you go into more detail on what the crowd was like that day?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

For those of us too young to remember, can you go into more detail on what the crowd was like that day?

Angry

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

Angry

Were they wearing knee high socks with shorts?

 

[HighBudget]

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There really needs to be a puke reaction on bigfooty

 

[Pear1870]

For those of us too young to remember, can you go into more detail on what the crowd was like that day?

Steve Dore kindly posted a short clip a few posts up.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I moved to Sydney for a few years in 1986 and took my long white socks for when summer arrived. Wore them to work on the first hot day and was told by a female colleague, (7 hours later at about 4.00 in the afternoon), that men had not been worn long socks in Sydney for a good five years. Went home feeling very South Australian and tossed five (good) pairs in the bin.

Not known to me, a photo of my legs had been taken and submitted in the company news letter, Xmas edition. However, i did win the "office sexy legs award" introduced for that year only so it wasn't all bad.

In Darwin we always knew when a southerner was in our midst at work.

Tell tale signs included but weren't limited to:

Tie
Long pants
Long sleeve shirt
On time
Shoes
Sober

 

[Andre]

Angry

Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.

 

[finbarr]

In Darwin we always knew when a southerner was in our midst at work.

Tell tale signs included but weren't limited to:

Tie
Long pants
Long sleeve shirt
On time
Shoes
Sober

Wore deodorant.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Wore deodorant.

Right posh campaigners they were

 

[johnnysix]

Any chance of getting any decent coverage on any of the footy shows on a week where we actually win? Been watching all the footy shows all year and yet to get any decent coverage on any of the shows.

 

[Festerz]

For those too young to remember

And by way of context, it needs to be understood that the news of Port's agreement to join the AFL had broken on (I think) the last Tuesday afternoon in July 1990 and Cunningham had spent the rest of the week hurling vicious vitriol at the club on his talk back program. I was stuck in a car driving back from the Riverland with my boss who was a mad Glenelg fan and he insisted the radio stay on the Cunningham footy show. The commentary was over the top - 'treason', 'back stabbing' etc. It was an a rabid feeding frenzy that continued on radio, TV and in the print media for the rest of the week.

On Thursday 2 August the other 9 SANFL clubs and SANFL had a 'War Cabinet' meeting to develop a strategy to block the Port move and most were openly calling for Port to be kicked out of the SANFL. A dozen SANFL officials flew to Melbourne on the Friday to lobby the AFL against Port.

As you can well understand emotions were running at fever pitch - it was PAFC vs the rest of the state.

So for Cunningham to then decide to rock up to Alberton Oval on the Saturday for the game against West Adelaide and make his way through the Port faithful was a deliberate and provocative act of showboating from a man who had spent the week doing all he could to pour oil on the fire of anti-Port emotions.

He made it all about him, knowing full well the emotional firestorm he was walking into. He spent the game in the media area up in the Fos Williams Family stand and near the end of the game (Port were thumping West by a big margin) KG decided to walk down the stairs and directly through the large magpie supporter base. Of course he made absolutely sure he had a Police contingent to protect him and a camera crew to film the response of supporters.

A pig headed and totally unprofessional act shamefully designed to maximise his media exposure off the back of the anti-Port hatred he had played a key role in whipping up over the week.