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Sam Kekovich's Biography
A
naturally gifted entertainer, Sam brings a wonderfully satirical, irreverent
and hard-hitting brand of humour to any occasion. His lively presentations draw
on all his experiences and the characters he has encountered over the last 30
plus years of his involvement in football, and life.
He
is well known for his controversial behaviour, both on and off the field, and
his lamb industry advertisements. He is also well known for his satires as
spokesman for Meat and Livestock (MLA) to promote lamb.
Kekovich
started his career with the North Melbourne football club in 1968, and in
the following year, won the club's best and fairest award, represented
Victoria, and was the club's top goalkicker, kicking 56 goals. From that
point, his brilliance was displayed only in flashes due to injury and other
non-football activities, including soccer, trampolining, and posing naked in
the "Truth" newspaper. However, he did play a major role in the
club's breakthrough premiership win in 1975 under AFL great Ron Barassi. Sam
holds the dubious honor of being North Melbourne's only player who was absent
from the club's 1975 Premiership team photo.
After
playing 125 VFL games for the Kangaroos between 1968 and 1976, he moved to
Collingwood in 1977, but only played four games, retiring that season.
He
has carried on his flamboyant style into the media sector, being most notable
for his rants on the ABC show The Fat and a breakfast show on
Melbourne radio station 3AK.Kekovich also is a radio presenter on
Melbourne Sports Radio Station, SEN 1116. He also appears on Triple Ms
pre-match AFL coverage and is on pit (pardon the interruption) Australia on
ESPN.
Kekovich's
direct-to-camera TV monologues are done deadpan and use wide-ranging
cultural references. They normally place in contrast many disparate or
incongruous verbal images and ideas, ending with him saying his trademark,
"You know it makes sense. I'm Sam Kekovich."
He
has performed these 'rants' on commercials for North Melbourne FC membership
drives, Dan Murphy's bottle shops, and, perhaps most famously, encouraging
people to act less 'unAustralian' on Australia Day by eating lamb.
Sam
Kekovich was the President of the Hammerheads, the Football Team created by
Channel 7's show The Club and was the Chief Executive Officer of K Rock Radio
in Geelong.
"Slammin'"
Sam Kekovich is one of the real personalities of AFL football and is an
engaging host and entertaining story teller.