Campbell Brown has revealed wild new particulars about his sacking from the Gold Coast Suns — and the incident that noticed his dad overshadow the career-killing controversy.
The vibrant footy icon has spilled the beans on essentially the most dramatic moments of his footy profession in a gripping tell-all podcast look.
The 39-year-old Hawthorn premiership legend has given the within story behind the three incidents the place he ended up in a police holding cell — however his most eye-catching revelation surrounds the enduring incident that noticed his father, former Richmond participant and WAFL Hall of Fame inductee Mal Brown, grow to be a cult hero for his look in a video that grew to become a worldwide hit.
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Brown has instructed the ‘Ausmerican Aces’ Tommy Talks podcast concerning the second he realised his father had infected the media storm surrounding his future within the days main as much as his sacking from the Suns.
The former Footy Show commentator and widespread footy media analyst was famously axed in 2013 after he broke the jaw of former teammate Steven May throughout an altercation outdoors a Los Angeles nightclub. He had a full season to run on his contract, however by no means performed once more at AFL degree. His profession ended on the spot.
Before the Suns dropped the guillotine on Brown, the scandal had swirled right into a media frenzy with hypothesis mounting his contract was going to be torn up after a string of incidents on and off the sphere.
The scandal famously erupted when imaginative and prescient of the altercation between Brown and May — captured throughout an low season journey to Las Vegas with a number of different teammates — was leaked to Australian media companies.
Brown says he and May had handled the state of affairs and apologised to one another earlier than even arriving again into Australia.
With the story operating on the entrance web page of newspapers and on the high of news bulletins, Melbourne TV networks had reporters and digital camera operators camped out the entrance of Mal Brown’s household dwelling within the inner-eastern suburb of Hawthorn.
After days of remaining silent whereas TV crews set-up on the road outdoors his home, Mal Brown lastly cracked it.
“I got into that dust up with Maysy,” Brown instructed host Tommy Sheridan on the podcast.
“And me and him flew back the next day. I’d apologised to him and he’d apologised to me. It wasn’t my intent to hurt him. It’s like when you have a fight with your brother or something – it’s just two big, powerful brutes. To my knowledge me and Maysy are fine. We don’t speak too often, but we see each other around the traps and he’s gone on to be an absolute superstar of a player. All-Australian, premiership star.
“The lead in to that was that I rang my old man, right. I said, ‘This is what’s happened’. We were in LA. I told him the story. I told him, ‘I don’t know what’s going to happen in terms of punishment or discipline or my career or whatever, but if you could just say ‘no comment’ and keep your mouth shut, that would just be great’.
“I knew that they’d love to get a grab from Mal. He said, ‘Son, you have my word. I won’t make a comment’. And three or four days went by and what the press were reporting about the incident was just so far off the mark. They were just saying all sorts of ***t which just wasn’t accurate. The old man was just on a slow burn a little bit. He’s just getting a bit angrier and a bit angrier each day.
“And the Suns had never come out and clarified some of the misinformation which might have potentially helped. I reckon the story broke on a Thursday and I reckon it got to the Monday, so four days have gone past and Mal’s on the f***ing slow burn and he hasn’t said a word.
“I’m up on the Gold Coast, waiting for what’s going to happen. Am I going to get suspended? Am I going to get the sack? Am I going to get nothing? And he’d gone out down the street for a little bit and he’d come back home and he usually parks on the street — we had a house in Hawthorn — and there were two vans parked out the front, a Channel 9 van and a Channel 10 van. And they’d been waiting there for a couple days to try and get Mal and door-stop him.
“Mal’s said, ‘I’m too smart for them, I’m going to go up around the block’. My mother wasn’t there at the time so he knew the car park at the back garage was free. So he goes up the alley way, rolls up the garage door, drives in and to Mal’s knowledge, he’s got in.
“And an eagle-eyed, very young cadet – in the first week of her job at Channel 10 – was a young Sharnelle Vella, who is now the Channel 7 court reporter and does a great job. She’s seen Mal go up the alleyway so she’s told the cameraman to come with me and they sort of snuck up the alley. And as Mal’s trying to bring the roller door down she comes in camera’s rolling and microphone. And Mal gets out the car and bang. There she is. There’s the camera. He’s been caught. He’s been door-stopped. And she says have you spoken to your son at all? And Mal, just off the top of his head without breaking stride, delivers down the barrel, ‘No I haven’t and can you go and get f***ed and get out of my life and out of my property and ring up and make a time like every other c*** does that’s got any manners’. And she goes, thank you.
“I don’t even know how you get c*** and manners in the same sentence so eloquently, but he did it. And I’m on the Gold Coast. It’s like 4pm in the afternoon on a Monday and the old man’s ringing. I pick up. Hello? And the old man says, ‘Son, I’ve made a comment’.
“And that was it. And so that ran. And now everyone says that’s the greatest f***ing response I’ve ever heard. And now it’s become like a meme. It’s gone viral. He can’t believe it. He’s got like a million hits on YouTube. He wouldn’t even know what YouTube is.
“That always gets a laugh. It is just the most remarkable statement. We’ll play it at his funeral I reckon.”
Earlier within the podcast, Brown additionally opens up concerning the darkest moments of his profession, together with his Gold Coast arrest and his night time in a Thailand police holding cell.
Source: www.news.com.au
