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“Sam Newman’s two month war is over with the controversial Footy Show star unreservedly apologising for his offensive behaviour. Newman has been off the show for the past four weeks, he says he will make his return tomorrow night a changed man”
Newman said that he is sorry that he has offended people, but Tony Jones [...]
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June 25th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
The lead story in today’s newspapers and certainly in the Melbourne Herald Sun was that Sam Newman has been told to take an extended break from The Footy Show.
This is on the back of the recent mannequin incident involving the chief football writer for The Age newspaper Caroline Wilson, the same newspaper Newman accused of [...]
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May 29th, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Week’s after have surgery to remove his prostate after being diagnosed with cancer, Sam Newman has returned to hospital a day after his controversial incident on The Footy Show with a broken ankle.
It is believed that Newman had dropped some weights onto his foot while working out in his private gym, just days after having [...]
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May 2nd, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
UPDATE: Video at bottom…
Tonight on The Footy Show Sam Newman has revealed that he offered to resign from the network in order to not do any more damage to the show and its regulars Garry Lyon, James Brayshaw and Trevor Marmalade.
In a segment that ran for around about 30 minutes of the show, Garry Lyon [...]
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May 1st, 2008 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
This week it was time for both the AFL and NRL Grand Final Footy Shows, with the AFL show being presented from Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, and the NRL show from Sydney’s Entertainment Centre.
The AFL Footy Show started off in its usual fashion with an opening routeen, and it started off with “The 73rd Annual [...]
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September 28th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Have a watch of the Today Tonight story below on Roland Rocchiccioli not being paid by Channel Nine for his DVD appearances for The Footy Show. What do you think, just another example of crap dished up from Today Tonight or a genuine human interest story. I seem to side with the first suggestion.
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September 26th, 2007 | Danny | 4 comments | Continued
On tonight’s AFL Footy Show they hit back at claims stated by Channel Seven that Channel Nine gave false viewer figures for its AFL coverage last year against Seven’s AFL coverage this year. So in true Sam Newman style he established a telethon to try and raise money to buy the footy rights back again, as the [...]
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April 12th, 2007 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
Thursday night the Footy Show screened it’s Grand Final edition, held at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. This year minus Eddie McGuire, however he was looking on from the audience.
The show opened with Garry, JB, Sam and Trevor looking for an appropriate opening for the show, which were are series of take-off’s of other shows. [...]
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October 2nd, 2006 | Danny | 0 comments | Continued
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