Dennis Cometti was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Australia Day Honours.
29 Facts About Dennis Cometti
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Dennis Cometti was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, the son of Dulcie and James Dennis Cometti.
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Dennis Cometti's father was the son of Italian migrants; his paternal grandfather Giovanni Cometti was from the village of Baruffini in Lombardy and moved to Australia to work on the Western Australian Goldfields.
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Farmer wrote, 'Dennis Cometti had just turned 19 and was well over 6 foot with the ability and agility of a co-ordinated rover.
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Dennis Cometti initially played for Wanneroo before moving to Maddington as captain-coach, leading the club to four successive grand finals and winning successive premierships in 1974,1975 and 1976.
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In 1968, Dennis Cometti commenced his media career as radio announcer in Perth as a Top-40 disc jockey at radio station 6KY.
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Melbourne station 3KZ needed a caller, and, due to a quirk of fate, Dennis Cometti volunteered to sit alongside Ian Major.
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Dennis Cometti joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1972 where he concentrated exclusively on sport.
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Dennis Cometti called WAFL football during his time at the national broadcaster either side of his stint as West Perth coach.
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Dennis Cometti stayed with Seven until 2001 as main sports anchor for Seven News in Perth, when they lost the rights to broadcast AFL matches.
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In 1997 Dennis Cometti toured South Africa with Drew Morphett covering the three test series on the Seven Network.
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Dennis Cometti commentated at the Summer Olympics swimming competitions in Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000.
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When he retired Dennis Cometti had broadcast more Australian Olympic Gold Medals than any other commentator of the television era.
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Dennis Cometti switched to the Nine Network in 2002 and alongside Eddie McGuire, Dermott Brereton and Garry Lyon became the channel's leading Australian rules football caller.
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Dennis Cometti read the sports report on the weeknight National Nine News in Perth.
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Dennis Cometti had a weekly segment on Seven News in Perth during the AFL season.
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Dennis Cometti's career was commemorated on-air during Seven's coverage of the 2016 AFL Grand Final, the last AFL match he called on television, accompanied by messages of congratulations from sponsor AAMI.
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Between 2008 and 2011 Dennis Cometti was the lead AFL caller on Saturday afternoons for 3AW, initially alongside Rex Hunt and later Brian Taylor.
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When Dennis Cometti revealed he would be joining Triple M in 2012, he was immediately removed from 3AW's lineup to call the 2011 AFL finals series and was replaced by Dwayne Russell.
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Dennis Cometti called Saturday afternoon games for Triple M with James Brayshaw, Danny Frawley and Garry Lyon.
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Dennis Cometti was voted the nation's top AFL radio caller in a national News Ltd newspaper poll in 2012.
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Dennis Cometti was involved in the Seven Network's coverage of the WAFL.
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In 2021, Dennis Cometti announced he would be retiring from broadcasting for good after the Perth-staged 2021 AFL Grand Final.
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Dennis Cometti himself has said his humour is derived from his days trying to entertain listeners on the FM radio broadcasts of his early career as well as teenage afternoons firing off wisecracks from the hill at Perth's Leederville Oval.
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Dennis Cometti was the voice-over commentator for the AFL video game series between 2004 and 2017.
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Dennis Cometti is a member of both the Melbourne Cricket Club and AFMA Halls of Fame.
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In October 2013, Dennis Cometti became the number one ticket holder of the Perth Wildcats.
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Dennis Cometti is the name of an Australian punk band, named in Cometti's honour.
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Dennis Cometti was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, of Italian, English and French descent.