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Camera IconCometti in his early Seven days. Credit: The West Australian\/The West Australian<\/p>\nDennis Cometti\u2019s voice formed the soundtrack to so many massive sporting moments. Here\u2019s some of the quips that have stuck long in the memory.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLike a cork in the ocean, over his head… oh, my word!\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti describing Peter Wilson falling, instantly bobbing back up, and kicking a spectacular goal over his head in West Coast\u2019s 1992 grand final win.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is rare gold. The best kind of gold.\u201d<\/p>\n
The caller in the final moments of Kieren Perkins\u2019 unlikely 1996 Olympic gold medal, where he came from lane 8 to win the 1500m freestyle.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went in optimistically and came out misty optically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti\u2019s clever line after Tony Liberatore emerged from a contest worse for wear.<\/p>\n
\u201cThorpe is overhauling him… Hall and Thorpe… Thorpe\u2019s in front… Thorpe and Hall… Thorpe goes in… Australia win.\u201d<\/p>\n
How Cometti described the closing stages of the Aussie men\u2019s 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2000 Olympics, in the famous \u2018Smashed them like guitars\u2019 showdown with Gary Hall Jr\u2019s US.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuess who? Could he do it again? Five in a half, I think so!\u201d<\/p>\n
The call of Chris Judd\u2019s fifth goal in an extraordinary opening half from the then second-year Eagle in a rout of Brisbane at the Gabba in 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow\u2019s that – a two-Carr collision, both with the same rego!\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti\u2019s quip when Port Adelaide\u2019s Josh Carr and Fremantle\u2019s Matthew Carr – both wearing No.9 – clashed in 2004.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan he do it again? He can\u2019t bounce it through, so he kicks it through on the full.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti describing Lance Franklin\u2019s Goal of the Year after burning off Cale Hooker in 2010.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came up behind him like a librarian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti\u2019s call of Heath Shaw\u2019s remarkable chase-down goalsquare smother of Nick Riewoldt in the 2010 grand final replay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a main event in any stadium in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti describing Cyril Rioli\u2019s chase of fellow speedster Lewis Jetta on the MCG\u2019s southern wing in the 2012 decider.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of talk these days is about \u2018inside players\u2019. Well, as we saw there, if Simon Black was any more inside, he\u2019d be a pancreas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti on contested-possession beast Simon Black.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Camera IconCometti in his early Seven days. Credit: The West Australian\/The West Australian<\/p>\n
\u201cGet a hearse for the curse.\u201d<\/p>\n
The clever line after Hawthorn ended an 11-game losing streak to Geelong after the \u2018Kennett Curse\u2019 to win the 2013 preliminary final.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHow will it bounce? The stadium holds its breath. It\u2019s a goal. And the western suburbs erupt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cometti in his final TV call for Seven, describing Tom Boyd\u2019s pivotal long-range goal late in the 2016 grand final.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dennis Cometti\u2019s voice formed the soundtrack to so many massive sporting moments. Here\u2019s some of the quips that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,588,85],"class_list":["post-517418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517418","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=517418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}