{"id":195104,"date":"2025-10-07T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195104\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:28:06","slug":"theyve-had-a-million-drinks-buzz-fires-back-at-jordan-rikis-sack-of-potatoes-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/195104\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019ve had a million drinks\u2019: Buzz fires back at Jordan Riki\u2019s \u2018sack of potatoes\u2019 dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran NRL journalist Phil \u2018Buzz\u2019 Rothfield took the joke in stride after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/brisbane-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Broncos<\/a> second-rower Jordan Riki playfully dubbed him a \u201csack of potatoes\u201d at the club\u2019s premiership celebrations on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos ended a 19-year premiership drought with a thrilling 26-22 NRL Grand Final win over Melbourne, and amid the celebrations at the centre of Accor Stadium, Riki playfully targeted one of the team\u2019s most vocal critics this season.<\/p>\n<p>Streaming the celebrations live on Instagram, the 25-year-old second-rower repeatedly called out for Rothfield\u2019s phone number during the festivities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone send me Buzz Rothfield&#8217;s number, I\u2019ll call him!\u201d Riki stated<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/rugby-league\/news\/haas-set-meet-r360-staggering-offer-revealed\/4cc1b2a0e3867cf362fd12bc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Haas set to meet with R360 as staggering offer revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSack of potatoes that fella, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the 67-year-old journalist appeared to relish the post-victory NRL Grand Final banter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Triple M NRL on Tuesday, Buzz laughed off the comments and even added to the humour, joking that he plans to fly to Brisbane next season to meet the second-rower in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked it, apart from the fact he called me a sack of potatoes or whatever,\u201d Buzz laughingly stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey you know what \u2026 I love banter. They\u2019ve had a million drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buzz added: \u201cI\u2019ve never met Jordan Riki &#8230; I wasn\u2019t sure who it was when I first saw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo drama. I like seeing them have a good time &#8211; they deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m gonna do next season. I\u2019m going to fly to Brisbane and I\u2019m going to sit down with Jordan Riki and say: \u2018Here I am! You were looking for me\u2026\u2019\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NRL journalist admitted that Riki\u2019s jabs could be linked to his mid-season critiques of coach Michael Maguire and the Broncos, when he famously labeled the club the \u201cflops\u201d of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI doubted Madge\u2019s coaching at a number of stages during the year. I looked like a genius at round 12 when they were 11th [in the ladder]. He did a great job and I\u2019m paying the penalty for it now,\u201d Buzz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran NRL journalist Phil \u2018Buzz\u2019 Rothfield took the joke in stride after Brisbane Broncos second-rower Jordan Riki playfully&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-195104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}