1. John Noel William "Sam" Newman was born on 22 December 1945 and is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League.
31 Facts About Sam Newman
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Sam Newman overcame a number of serious injuries during his career to become the first Geelong player to reach 300 senior VFL games.
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Sam Newman made his debut for Geelong in 1964 when he was 18 years old.
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Sam Newman was selected as an All-Australian player in 1969.
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Sam Newman played for the Victorian state team eight times.
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Sam Newman reached his 300th senior VFL game in Round 20 against Collingwood at Kardinia Park.
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In December 2005, Sam Newman was appointed as ruck coach for the Melbourne Football Club to mentor players such as Jeff White, Mark Jamar and Paul Johnson.
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Sam Newman kicked four goals from four kicks and three marks to be named best on ground, despite his team losing to the All Stars by seven points.
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Sam Newman joined radio station 3AW as a football commentator in 1981 and continued with the station until the end of the 1999 season.
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Sam Newman appeared on World of Sport on Channel 7 for seven years from 1981 to 1987 and had a column in The Sun News-Pictorial newspaper during the late 1980s.
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Sam Newman joined the Nine Network in 1989, appearing on a sports segment on In Melbourne Today with Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale.
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Sam Newman was a panel member of The Sunday Footy Show from 1993 to 1998.
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Sam Newman was on The Footy Show from when it first aired in 1994 until 2018 on the Nine Network.
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Sam Newman appeared on the Sunday sports show Any Given Sunday in 2005, and co-hosted the short lived Sam and The Fatman with Paul Vautin.
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Sam Newman formerly provided special comments during AFL games on Triple M, as well as 3AW.
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Sam Newman quit the station in January 2012, after the breakfast producer censored Sam Newman's profanity.
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In December 2018, Eddie McGuire announced that Sam Newman had signed a new multi-year deal with Nine; however, The Footy Show, of which Sam Newman had been a part of with McGuire since the show started in March 1994, was replaced by a football show in a new format in 2019.
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In June 2020, Sam Newman announced that he would no longer appear on the Nine Network.
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In March 2023, Sam Newman announced on the You Cannot Be Serious podcast with Don Scott that their podcast had reached 10 million downloads on Podbean.
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Sam Newman has regularly been a controversial figure during his media career, with some of his most controversial incidents on The Footy Show including:.
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In June 2020, Sam Newman arrived at a mutual agreement with the Nine Network to resign from the network after he stated in a podcast that while George Floyd died as a consequence of police brutality, Floyd's extensive criminal record meant he was a "piece of shit".
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Sam Newman's controversies continued even after being sacked from the Nine Network.
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Sam Newman began racing in 1998 in Class C of the Australian GT Production Car Championship, where he finished in 10th place in a Ford EL Falcon XR8.
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Sam Newman then went on to finish in fourth place in Class D at the 1999 Poolrite GTP Bathurst Showroom Showdown driving with Melinda Price.
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Sam Newman drove the Vectra to fifth place in Class E in the 2000 Australian GT Production Car Championship.
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Sam Newman raced a V8 Supercar at the support races at the Australian Grand Prix in the same year.
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In 2001, Sam Newman raced a Ferrari 360 Challenge for Prancing Horse Racing as a teammate to multiple Australian champions and Bathurst 1000 winner John Bowe in the 2001 Australian Nations Cup Championship, finishing in 14th place.
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Sam Newman benefited in the Top 10 shootout for pole as he was the first driver on the track.
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Sam Newman started the season in the later model GTR in Nations Cup Group 1 as team mate to another multiple Australian racing champion Paul Stokell, but was bumped to the older Group 2 Diablo SVR when V8 Supercars driver Anthony Tratt re-joined the team from Round 3 at Wakefield Park and as a pro-driver was given the newer, faster car.
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Sam Newman finished the series in 9th place in Group 1 and 3rd place in Group 2.
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Sam Newman recorded an emotional tribute to his late wife on his podcast You Cannot Be Serious.