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What led to the end of The Footy Show?
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100 years still driven. Now the footy show, Axe Last Night, Fat. Something that you were on for 22 years. And your good self. Not as long, but great sadness for me. And I'll get to why in a moment. Lots of people have death ridden this show for a long time. For a while, yeah. And that was always a source of sadness to me because by death riding it, they actually completely missed the point. Yeah. They completely missed what the whole thing was about. Yeah. And some of the amazing things that that show did. Well, you're right. And I always think of the charities that the footy show helped along the way. Oh, yeah. And I still remember Eddie McGuire standing up at auctions, selling a table to the grand final footy show or to come in and be part of the live audience for $10,000.
And then the second bidder selling one there for $9,000. So they both bought, they walk out $18,000 for the charity. Out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. Just to sit and watch a show. They would have made tens and maybe over that journey, even hundreds of millions of dollars for charities around Australia. Yeah. You and I, both in our time, used to get nailed and happily by charities from everywhere going, can we have a table to auction at our charity auction? And then the people would email you back and they'd go, we got four grand, what, six grand? Thanks for that. It was the highest selling thing at the auction by a mile. Thank you so much. Exactly. So you extrapolate that out, Bill, over 20 plus years. The amount of money made for charity just out of that show alone, extraordinary.
And it's a sad day, as you said, because it's a sad day for Channel 9. Because I was talking to people today, and people our age, Jim, they grew up with a footy show. Maybe not Rabsy, who's a bit younger. No, definitely. But you get home, and I was talking to someone here today at work. She said, we're allowed to stay up Thursday nights to watch the footy show. It was must watch. And it's sad because a lot of people, like the talent, and we had some great people go through. When you look at Trev and Dermy, James Hurd, Roland, Dougie Hawkins, Wispy, there's 100 of them. And they were the biggest names in the game. The superstars of football were always on that show. But it's also the staff behind the scenes.
The same old cameramen, Beamsie and Dave and all those blokes, mate. And they loved the show as much as we did. Paulie, the floor manager. Paulie, mate. And then you've got the producers. There's been a lot of producers come and gone. There has. Uh, so there's great memory and great memories about just, I've got a list here. Look at this. They got the David Swart. Were you on that night? No, no, no. I wasn't on either, but mate that night when that wasn't set up, I know, I know they've set up to have a pie there, but nothing else was set up about it. Shane Crawford. Oh, How emotional he actually got and how emotional everyone got when he come back. That one to Perth when he rode over there. Of course, you got Sam with a couple of his things there.
The World Cup one, which we'll talk about very shortly. Yes. That was fantastic. That's Nathan Brown and Gaz breaking their leg. Didn't you get some fun out of that on the stretcher? No. Well, that went for a couple of years. Oh, mate. That vision went for a couple of years. That was a go-to gag. Oh, yeah. Street talk. Amazing. Unbelievable. The street talk. Yo, gather, gather. Oh, yes, exactly. I'll tell you what. Fev when he was at the Brownlow. Brownlow that night. Shane Crawford when he dacked Sam that night, which, again, this was all live television.
Yes.
When we sold out at London at Theatre Royal. Yeah. which is this thousand year old theater gym. It's three stories. And we got over there and I remember something the producer told us. They said, we're going to book this theater and, and, and they bring this theater and they go, what is it? A footy? No, we don't know. I'm not sure. Anyway, the, the, the footy show talked to me into it, sold out with the old expats over there in 25 minutes.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What led to the end of The Footy Show?
0:00–9:53
2
What memorable moments are shared about Billy's Wheel?
9:53–16:29
3
How did JB's Borat Green Mankini moment unfold?
16:29–24:44
4
What chaos ensued during Big Bill's House segment?
24:44–33:23
5
What happened during the Footy Show x Saturday Rub crossover?
33:23–43:50
6
What are some of the biggest fails discussed in the episode?
43:50–52:27
7
What was Shane Crawford's infamous dacking incident with Sam Newman?
52:27–1:01:56
8
What behind-the-scenes stories does Billy share about his nudie run in Munich?
1:01:56–1:09:34
Speakers
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