{"id":50164,"date":"2025-08-07T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:32:14","slug":"dan-gorringe-ex-afl-star-and-podcaster-begins-48-hour-stint-inside-glass-box-out-the-front-of-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50164\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gorringe: Ex-AFL star and podcaster begins 48 hour stint inside glass box out the front of MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Imitating the absurdity of magician David Blaine\u2019s antics, former <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/sport\/afl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AFL<\/a> player and personality Daniel Gorringe has begun a 48-hour stint of being locked inside a glass box out the front of the MCG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 33-year-old began the stunt at 3pm WST on Thursday ahead of the clash between Hawthorn and Collingwood, and intends to remain there for an entire two days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The former Gold Coast and Carlton ruck has become one of the biggest names in the footy world thanks to his widely popular podcast Dan Does Footy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">It is the latest in a long list of wild punishments that Gorringe has put himself through this AFL season, including dying his hair blue, shaving his head and legally changing his first name to Richmond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Those bizarre stunts usually came at the cost of a self-imposed bet with his former team, Carlton, losing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">But this one comes from a promotion with Hard Rated following a post to their Instagram asking how many likes it would take for Gorringe to be locked in the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Now the 26-game player is in the glass box with spectators coming to knock on the glass and watch the events that unfold on a live stream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">During his podcast on Wednesday, Gorringe talked about the stunt saying he had misread the text from the brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cI thought \u2018would you want to be behind glass?\u2019 (was in a corporate box),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cIt\u2019s very much a different behind glass experience than what I thought it was going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2ab1a9bcbd9b8486d09fb66a80e6cd36c2952536.jpg\" alt=\"Ex-AFL player Dan Gorringe has begun a wild stunt of staying in a glass box for 48-hours at the front of the MCG.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconEx-AFL player Dan Gorringe has begun a wild stunt of staying in a glass box for 48-hours at the front of the MCG. Credit: Dan Does \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Hour two in the stream and Gorringe is currently tackling the heavy issue of how to order a pizza to be delivered to inside the box.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Gorringe was previously in the crosshairs of West Coast captain Oscar Allen, after agreeing to be egged if the Eagles were able to beat the Blues in round 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">He was saved after Carlton got up by 34 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imitating the absurdity of magician David Blaine\u2019s antics, former AFL player and personality Daniel Gorringe has begun a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,134,995,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-50164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-influencers","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50164","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=50164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}