Did anybody see him on Sunday show Footy SA or whatever with Hutchy and Basset on 9? Kept on tapping and patting Bassett. Hutchy told him to leave him alone. Weird unit.
I remember on one of those Footy Shows they had the kicking competition, where there was a big target and players had to kick the footy 15-20m or so
Rowe was sooo bad at the skills it was embarrassing. He had one kick and realised that he was way out of his depth. To deflect attention he started hamming around when it was his turn, eg running right up to the target and blasting it from 1m away. Trying to look as though he was taking the piss but really just trying to hide how terrible he was.
It's the same with his media work.
The larrikin carry on, the loud over-the-top "boofhead" act with the sooky la las, funny names and voices is a defense mechanism. Gets trotted out when someone with brains questions one of his opinions or shows up his lack of football knowledge. It's basically to take people's attention away from the fact that he's just not that clever.
Now - the loud, bubbly, enthusiastic, colour man stuff is fine and has a place in media. But in small doses to break things up, not three hours worth.