Jacko

[Ron The Bear]

St Kilda was the only club interested for the 1983 season and Jackson started very well for the Saints kicking 41 goals from 10 matches, including 10 in a game against Sydney Swans. But half way through the season Jacko was sacked from the club for disciplinary reasons. He spent the remainder of the year playing for the Harlequin F.C. Rugby side. However, his 41 goals was still enough to be the Saints' leading goal kicker.

He told Silvio Foschini, a high-profile recruit who also liked the limelight, to "stay the **** out of my forward line". Jacko's Paddock?

 

[deedog2]

Only Australian Rules Football associated person to appear on The Simpsons:

Quite unbelievable...

Like Conan O'Brien says its like being preserved in amber.

 

[ThirdLegUp]

ahhh jacko... i remember him. I knew him before i saw him in football. The day my cousin gave him the choice of jumping from the roof of a house or being beaten to death with a hammer in front of his mates. Imagine my surpirse when i saw him on the football field a little while later LOL could have been a short career.

 

[JoondalupJ]

He had talent but was bat crap crazy. Should be Interesting. Didn't he have a TV show in the US.

Yes I think he did do some TV in the US. Also I think your right, his problem is that he is bat crap crazy. Could be an awkward night for Mike.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Jackson had a ton of natural talent and strength, and could seriously play. Richmond loaned him to South Fremantle at 19yo in 1979 and he kicked 56 in the H&A season, but fell out with teammates on the eve of the finals and abruptly returned to Melbourne. He went back to Richmond in 1980 but was behind Disco Roach and BT and couldn’t get a game, despite kicking 131 goals in the reserves.

He moved to Melbourne in 1981 under Ron Barassi, kicking 18 in the first 3 weeks and 76 for the season, and the same tally again in 1982.

He put himself on the market in 1983, with St Kilda the only takers, but he was sacked mid-season for missing training, despite kicking 41 goals in the first 10 games. He spent the rest of the season playing rugby, “against really tough blokes” as he said, but still won the Saints goalkicking for the year.

Geelong were next to give him a go and he kicked 9 goals in Round 1, and 74 for the season in 1984. He had 33 in nine games in 1985 before being suspended for 8 matches in the fiery clash with Hawthorn. Most attention focused on Leigh Matthews' infamous hit on Neville Bruns, but Jackson, who contributed a game-high four goals in a losing side, was roundly blamed for the mayhem. He was suspended for eight matches after being found guilty of striking direct opponent Chris Langford – twice - as well as Gary Ayres and Chris Mew, for good measure.

Jackson admits to being the instigator - "I was looking at eight weeks' rehabilitation for a pinched cartilage, so I was going out with a bang. I tried to get their whole backline, but only made it halfway through em".

The night Jackson was suspended, his father George died from a heart attack.

"The next day someone wrote in the paper that I brought on Dad's heart attack," he recalls. "Yeah, Dad's death had nothing to do with the fact he smoked two packs a day, drank like a machine and had a hole in his heart and was on Librium. No, that would take some flamin' research.”

He returned in 1986 but was suddenly dropped from the seniors after kicking 8 goals in the first two weeks. He retired that night with immediate effect, saying he had better things to do.

The following year Jackson became the face of Energizer batteries in Australia and later the United States.

"Every day people still yell out: 'Oi!' It even happened when I was in the flamin' toilet at Stonehenge," he says. "I gave top value for money.”

He says he left footy with no money and no friends, saying Tom Hafey was the only person from his footy days to make regular contact in the years that followed.

"I made clubs millions in membership tickets and gate takings, but I cost them nothing," he says. "The biggest contract I got was $13,000, and that year I got fined $18,500. When I left footy I was in the red. I had to make my money outside footy, which I did with my personality."

He says he never encouraged his sons to play football, as the game was “full of w***ers who take themselves too seriously.”

What do you like most about the game?

"Flamin' nothing. It's not the be-all-and-end-all. I laugh about how flamin' serious people take it. The world's a flamin' big place – you've got to get out more. I'd rather be sitting on a gold tenement on the Alaskan-Canadian border in the middle of winter, worrying about flamin' grizzly bears. That's the greatest place on earth, and far more exciting than any flamin' game of footy I played."

What don't you like?

"How long have you got? The game they’re playing now isn’t the game I played. And it was a game, not a flamin' business. The game has been hijacked and it doesn’t give the public a fair go. Where are the flamin' entertainers? The game is sterile and as dry as salt. They’re paying big money, which I think is great, but at the same time players are squeezed so hard in their contracts that they’re not allowed to have a flamin' personality, and it affects the entertainment."

What would you change about the game?

"If I was in charge of the AFL I'd do the job in an honorary capacity, so I wouldn't take a wage. That $1 million a year could be used to prop up a country league that's in trouble. I'd put more money into local clubs rather than expansion teams and international rubbish. And the rules of the game should be protected against changes by the National Trust."

Favourite player and why?

"Don't have one. Don't even watch the flamin' game."

How many operations have you had?

"No issues. I'm sensational and getting better."

 

[Lach72]

a remember him coming back to South Freo in 1987.
We started off like a German band and won the first 3..from memory we didn't win another game for the year
Edit: this would be why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_WAFL_season

"South Fremantle, who appeared revitalised early in the season, suffered a crippling injury and suspension toll plus the walkout of returning star “Jacko” Jackson and the elevation to West Coast of early-season stars Hart and Worsfold. This left the Bulldogs with twenty-five senior players unavailable mid-season, and the club consequently suffered eighteen consecutive losses to take the wooden spoon for the first time since 1972 and the last to date.[8] In the middle of the season South Fremantle were fielding twelve or more first-year players.[9] Although coach Magro admitted many were not up to league standard in 1987,[10] some of these like Peter Matera were to be decisive in returning the red and whites to prominence the following season"

Claremont had Derek Kickett and Ben Allan running around I think

 

[Lach72]

Wasn't there an incident where someone abused him over the fence saying "You're a ****ing girl, Jackson!" to which he pulled his short up showing his balls?

 

[treefingers]

Only Australian Rules Football associated person to appear on The Simpsons:

Quite unbelievable...

Like Conan O'Brien says its like being preserved in amber.

No way! What episode?

 

[AndyLucimitis]

J
He says he left footy with no money and no friends, saying Tom Hafey was the only person from his footy days to make regular contact in the years that followed.

... being a prick will do that

 

[Sando22]

That is fantastic!!
What an egg.

 

[Bazzar]

a remember him coming back to South Freo in 1987.
We started off like a German band and won the first 3..from memory we didn't win another game for the year

I was at the Anzac day match that year.

 

[JackFlash]

Not that puzzling surely? People get their stats out and point to his goal average but there is more to it than that. He paid no attention to the defensive element in football whatsoever. He'd kick 3 or 4 goals in a match but give away another 5 or 6 by clowning around while his opponent would run downfield setting up scoring opportunities. It's no coincidence that players such as Jackson never play in premiership teams. They're more a distraction than an asset.

All true, it explains the Demons woes perfectly. They only won 8 games that year with two blokes kicking 153 goals between them, do that these days and you have the flag in the bag!

 

[Mr Mister]

I'm sure it's not as bad as what Gerard was making out. Jacko would have a lot of built up resentment against Mike after what was written about him in the eighties (not excusing his wild behaviour)

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Only Australian Rules Football associated person to appear on The Simpsons:

Quite unbelievable...

Like Conan O'Brien says its like being preserved in amber.

The episode where they visit Australia.

He was basically the most well known Aussie in the States until Steve Irwin came along.

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

ahhh jacko... i remember him. I knew him before i saw him in football. The day my cousin gave him the choice of jumping from the roof of a house or being beaten to death with a hammer in front of his mates. Imagine my surpirse when i saw him on the football field a little while later LOL could have been a short career.

Yep, was a roof tiler during the early part of his footy career, on the way to school one day the mates and I saw him up on a roof, being a bunch of smart arses we gave him a bit of lip. He responded by throwing broken bits of tile at us, was an absolute pisser. It's an act he has made a reasonably good career of, good on him.

 

[yyou]

I went to a cricket club quiz night years ago in Northbridge, WA & Jacko was the mc.
He rattled off a 20 to 30 minute story of his life & he was brilliant.
I remember being surprised that he wasn't a drinker & when I shook hands with him his hand dwarfed mine & I have big hands.
The following year I went to the corresponding quiz night & Dennis Cometti was the mc. Big Den was a letdown & bloody Jacko left him for dead as an mc/act.

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

I went to a cricket club quiz night years ago in Northbridge, WA & Jacko was the mc.
He rattled off a 20 to 30 minute story of his life & he was brilliant.
I remember being surprised that he wasn't a drinker & when I shook hands with him his hand dwarfed mine & I have big hands.
The following year I went to the corresponding quiz night & Dennis Cometti was the mc. Big Den was a letdown & bloody Jacko left him for dead as an mc/act.

Funniest MC / Speaker I have ever seen is Kerry O'Keffe. Seriously, when he tells a story and starts that Mutley laugh before the punchline even comes out I was nearly wetting my pants.
Very, very funny man.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I went to a cricket club quiz night years ago in Northbridge, WA & Jacko was the mc.
He rattled off a 20 to 30 minute story of his life & he was brilliant.
I remember being surprised that he wasn't a drinker & when I shook hands with him his hand dwarfed mine & I have big hands.
The following year I went to the corresponding quiz night & Dennis Cometti was the mc. Big Den was a letdown & bloody Jacko left him for dead as an mc/act.

Heard the same story is say, about half an hour he spoke for when I saw him. Very good speaker, certainly knows how to tell a joke.

 

[Chief]

Might try and find this.

It was pretty bad. He isn't an actor.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Bit of a look at the more regular, "normal" Jacko

 

[OnceWeWereKings]

It was pretty bad. He isn't an actor.

Very very gentle critique there Cheif.

 

[00Stinger]

Bloke is a deadset dickhead, no ifs or buts

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[bombersfan4000]

Bloke is a deadset dickhead, no ifs or buts

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He certainly has a few screws loose

 

[brucetiki]

Bloke is a deadset dickhead, no ifs or buts

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For as long as his arse points to the ground right

 

[Boxhead_31]

For the younger generation who might not get the referance