Sam Newman

John Noel William "Sam" Newman (born 22 December 1945) is a retired Australian rules football player and current television personality. He is a featured presenter on the AFL version of The Footy Show.

Sam has won All-Australian selection in 1969, is a member of the AFL Hall of Fame and played 300 games for Geelong from 1964 to 1980.

Other achievements include Geelong Team of the Century selection (Ruckman), Club Champion 1968 and 1975 as well as 8 times a representative of Victoria.

Sam is best known by most Australians for his very colourful media career. He joined radio station 3AW as a football commentator in 1981 and appeared on World of Sport on Channel 7 for seven years.

Newman has been a regular on the AFL version of The Footy Show since it first aired in 1994 on the Australian Nine Network. He acts as sidekick and resident clown. He regularly hosts "Street Talk", a vox populi segment in which he interviews people on the streets, usually in Melbourne, as well as Sam's Mailbag where he reads out random correspondence, shows funny footage and the occasional humorous lookalike of Garry Lyon (co-host).

His other media appearances have included the Sunday sports show Any Given Sunday in 2005, World of Sport, The Sunday Footy Show and also co-hosting the short lived Sam and The Fatman with Paul "Fatty" Vautin. On radio station Triple M, Newman previews Friday night and Saturday afternoon matches. He formerly provided special comments during AFL games on Triple M, as well as 3AW previously.

He is currently on the Melbourne Talk Radio radio station, providing special comments and talk back to the general public.

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