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RIP Dennis Cometti

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Dennis commentated in the following Grand Finals for Channel 7.
  • 1988 = Hawthorn vs Melbourne
  • 1989 = Hawthorn vs Geelong
  • 1991 = Hawthorn vs West Coast
  • 1992 = West Coast vs Geelong
  • 1994 = West Coast vs Geelong
  • 1997 = Adelaide vs St Kilda
  • 1998 = Adelaide vs North Melbourne
  • 2008 = Geelong vs Hawthorn
  • 2010 = Collingwood vs St Kilda (also commentated the Grand Final Replay)
  • 2012 = Hawthorn vs Sydney
  • 2013 = Hawthorn vs Fremantle
  • 2014 = Sydney vs Hawthorn
  • 2015 = Hawthorn vs West Coast
  • 2016 = Sydney vs Western Bulldogs
We were blessed with a great commentator.
 
For everyone's enjoyment:

Here are some of Cometti's most memorable one-liners:

On Eddie Betts threading the needle from the pocket:

He's judged it to a nicety. Centimetre perfect!
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On West Coast's Peter Wilson kicking an overhead goal:

Wilson, like a cork in the ocean over his head. Oh my word!
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On Heath Shaw's goalsquare smother of Nick Riewoldt:

He came up behind him like a librarian. He never heard him!
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On Steve Johnson's dominant performance:

This is a virtuoso performance. He will leave tonight and get on the team bus with a violin case.
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On Angus Monfries receiving a lucky bounce:

If Pythagoras is watching, explain that!
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On Barack Obama's tenpin bowling skills:

I just hope the future of the free world is never decided by a bowl-off.
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On Cyril Rioli chasing Lewis Jetta on the wing:

This is interesting! It's a main event in any stadium in the world.
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On Kangaroos midfielder Jess Sinclair's grievances:

He's pleading his case like the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.
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On Kamdyn McIntosh attempting to chase Bradley Hill:

They say it's easy to run downhill. Tell that to McIntosh!
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On Melbourne midfielder Adem Yze:

Remember the name: Y-Z-E — terrific young player, bad Scrabble hand.
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On the work of Bulldogs star Tony Liberatore as he burrowed into a pack:

Liberatore went into that last pack optimistically and came out misty optically.
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On former Melbourne, Sydney and Collingwood ruckman Darren Jolly:

Jolly gets it to Green. Where's the giant?
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On a Carlton champion:

There's Koutoufides — more vowels than possessions today.
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Closely assessing the team list in his Football Record:

Barlow to Bateman … The Hawks are attacking alphabetically.
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On the cliches of sport:

So it's back to the old drawing board. Obviously a luxury that the guy who invented the drawing board didn't have.
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On Brisbane midfielder Simon Black:

He's like Diogenes or OJ Simpson — he's always searching.
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On an errant shot at goal by former Richmond star Darren Gasper:

Ahh, Gasper the unfriendly post.
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Upon seeing Port Adelaide's Josh Carr approached by a tackler:

Carr — covered by a third party.
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On a collision between Carr's brother Matthew and former Docker Trent Croad:

Carr was just poleaxed by his own team-mate. Does that qualify as Croad rage?
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On the eternal struggles of the tall defender:

Right now Shannon Watt looks like a man in a darkened room trying to discover where all the furniture is.
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On a West Coast Eagles champion:

The way Jakovich is playing today, he's closer to teething than retiring.
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On Collingwood's burly full-forward of the 2000s:

When Anthony Rocca backs into a pack, he beeps.
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Harking back to his FM radio days with another 1960s music reference:

The Dockers' defence is in disarray. Everybody wants to be Gladys Knight, nobody wants to be the Pips.
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On the unfortunate lot of a lumbering Adelaide ruckman:

Shaun Rehn has been terrific again today but look at him, he's paid a price. Like a Saint Bernard in a heatwave.
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On a Brownlow medal-winning former Bulldogs and Bears star:

Hardie decides to have a bounce. Look at him go. Amazing. Not bad for a guy who's built like a pirate's lunch table.
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On St Kilda's premiership drought:

The Saints have had more five-year plans than Fidel Castro.
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On the one-dimensional kicking skills of Essendon forward Scott Lucas:

I think it's safe to say Lucas takes his right leg out there purely for balance.
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On his former colleague Robert DiPierdomenico:

That's the latest from the huddles. For those of you who don't know, Dipper is a graduate of the Don Corleone school of elocution.
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On a former Adelaide and Geelong livewire's unpredictable moves:

I swear if Ronnie Burns were building a house he'd start with the roof.
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On football tactics:

Some people might say that was a set play, but if it was, the Swans must have copied it off a Portuguese bus timetable.
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On Simon Black, again:

A lot of talk these days is about 'inside players'. Well, as we saw there, if Simon Black was any more inside he'd be a pancreas.
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On a clash between Essendon and Hawthorn great Paul Salmon and the more slimline St Kilda star Nicky 'Elvis' Winmar:

Just as Winmar landed, big Salmon came crashing down on top of him. They're slowly getting up and now I can report the building has left the Elvis.
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RIP
 

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PonsfordMagpie said:
Dennis commentated in the following Grand Finals for Channel 7.
  • 1988 = Hawthorn vs Melbourne
  • 1989 = Hawthorn vs Geelong
  • 1991 = Hawthorn vs West Coast
  • 1992 = West Coast vs Geelong
  • 1994 = West Coast vs Geelong
  • 1997 = Adelaide vs St Kilda
  • 1998 = Adelaide vs North Melbourne
  • 2008 = Geelong vs Hawthorn
  • 2010 = Collingwood vs St Kilda (also commentated the Grand Final Replay)
  • 2012 = Hawthorn vs Sydney
  • 2013 = Hawthorn vs Fremantle
  • 2014 = Sydney vs Hawthorn
  • 2015 = Hawthorn vs West Coast
  • 2016 = Sydney vs Western Bulldogs
We were blessed with a great commentator.
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These were all great. I really like the clip of Stuart Dew’s 3rd quarter in 2008 called by both Dennis and Bruce - a real classic of them both at their best. Dennis off the cuff terming Dew “an unlikely bulky hero” in the heat of that moment showed the man’s gift for the language.
Sad to compare to the abject channel 7 grand final calls of recent times.
 
I had never heard of Dennis until 1987. I spent that year working in WA, the year the Eagles came in, and Dennis was on the TV in Perth. Straight away I thought he was a fantastic commentator with his silky smooth voice.
Over the years he got better and better and leaves today’s commentators in his dust.
 
This sucks so bad. Obviously the best caller of all time, but also just loved hearing him talk about footy and life in general. Hope he knew how much he was loved.
 
Partridge said:
I'm glad to read some of the articles are mentioning that he was also a brilliant cricket commentator. Remember hearing him on a radio a lot when I was younger. Just checked and he worked with Alan McGilvray for 13 years. Good apprenticeship to serve.

Easily the best footy commentator I can think of. Never got cringeworthy and creepy like McAvaney, never became forced and manufactured like Hudson. And was never a moronic barracker like pretty much everyone now.
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I remember just before Nine gave away broadcasting the shield, there was a game he called with Kerry O'Keefe. Ying and yang but it was great.
 
Very sad.

In Dennis, the AFL commentary team in heaven just gained its second member-to join Lou Richards (yes I know Lou had deficiencies but I grew up with him and he was so quintessentially Aussie Rules).

One day, Bruce will join them (hopefully not for a while) and heaven’s dream team will be complete.

Vale.
 
PonsfordMagpie said:
Dennis commentated in the following Grand Finals for Channel 7.
  • 1988 = Hawthorn vs Melbourne
  • 1989 = Hawthorn vs Geelong
  • 1991 = Hawthorn vs West Coast
  • 1992 = West Coast vs Geelong
  • 1994 = West Coast vs Geelong
  • 1997 = Adelaide vs St Kilda
  • 1998 = Adelaide vs North Melbourne
  • 2008 = Geelong vs Hawthorn
  • 2010 = Collingwood vs St Kilda (also commentated the Grand Final Replay)
  • 2012 = Hawthorn vs Sydney
  • 2013 = Hawthorn vs Fremantle
  • 2014 = Sydney vs Hawthorn
  • 2015 = Hawthorn vs West Coast
  • 2016 = Sydney vs Western Bulldogs
We were blessed with a great commentator.
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I'm so grateful that every single Hawthorn Grand Final I can remember during my lifetime, Dennis commentated. It's very strange, I was just looking up how old he was a couple of weeks ago and thought he had plenty of time left :(

Truly the greatest commentator we've ever had. RIP.
 

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What a master of his craft. Such a silky smooth voice with such poise and an excellent turn of phrase. I always loved his pro wrestling references. While maybe nowhere near the funniest, my favourite call of his was when he said something along the lines of 'Nathan Foley... plays a lot like Mick Foley' when Nathan gathered the ball in heavy traffic.

My condolences to the family of a true legend of the game, I'm not sure we will ever hear another commentator quite like him. RIP.
 
Rotayjay said:
I've got to say, this really hit me. Dennis Cometti was one of the key voices of my childhood and then adulthood. His voice is the voice of footy for me, and now he's gone.

Vale Dennis. May your ascension into Heaven be centimetre-perfect.
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I'm grateful to have grown up in the era I did. Didn't catch his whole career but glad I caught some of it.
 
Borough Blood said:
This one hits hard.
The end of the 2012 GF is tattooed into my brain. Absolutely iconic.
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“Is that the Grand Final? Sydney are premiers!” Speaks volumes that even opposition supporters remember all of his iconic moments. True legend of our game
 
was always partial to the peter matera, outside of the boot if you don't mind, call
 

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