The universally-admired caller has stepped away from AFL football and leaves sizeable shoes to fill
Debate can rage all it likes over whether Bruce McAvaney is Australia’s finest sports commentator, but what is beyond argument is that he is the most loved. While most, if not all, of his contemporaries count their friends on one hand and their enemies on the other, it’s a rare thing to hear a bad word about McAvaney. He just also happens to be an extraordinarily talented broadcaster.
McAvaney and his honeyed tones are not lost to Australian television, but it is for these reasons his decision to stop calling AFL matches is a sad day for the sport of Australian rules football. Sad in the wistful, reflective sense, not the oh-my-god-the-world-is-coming-to-an-end sense.
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