With the 2020 NRL Grand Final looming, the NRL made their announcement last week about the 2020 NRL Grand Final Entertainment for this year’s showpiece, and when the name Amy Shark appeared aside from showing our age and lack of coolness with the youngsters but not knowing who she was, we think the NRL hired the wrong shark.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Amy Shark – the indie pop singer-songwriter-guitarist and producer from the Gold Coast. But it doesn’t quite seem very rugba leeg does it.
At least her appearance doubles down on the involvement of Queensland based females at the NRL Grand Final, after the Broncos women booked their spot at the showpiece.
Going even further, music at the NRL (or AFL) Grand Final is hugely overrated.
Who would really be upset if there was no music at all. Most are there to see a game of football, the term of match day experience used by white shoed marketing pushers is grossly overused.
Most years, it is a thread on various social media platforms questioning the connection between the sport and artist. Or a flavour of the month that will be forgotten not long after the final siren.
Occasionally it is a perfect fit with the audience, and the artist is good.
But really, looking back on various NRL Grand Final Entertainment, people only remember the truly terrible or when the mishaps happened. Ask a person about a memorable Grand Final Entertainment performance and most will point you in the directions of Meatloaf’s worse live music performance of the 21st century, or a failing hovercraft with captain Billy Idol on board. Or look to the biggest football entertainment of all. For all the NFL’s Super Bowl superstars, ask someone to name a memorable moment and they’ll probably offer up with boob out Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake show.
The NRL Grand Final Entertainment needs to be memorable, and hopefully for the right reasons. But perhaps not.
Bringing us back to Amy Shark. We’re sure it will be a competent musical performance, but will it be memorable in a few years time? Probably not.
The NRL got close though, with the name….shark.
Regular readers to The Gurgler will now probably groan, and say to themselves, “here comes another thing about nude Greg Norman. And they’d be right.
Since Greg Norman, aka the Great White Shark, took the world by storm with his revealing photo shoot, he has never been more popular. Not just in Australia but around the world.
Who else could bridge the international gap between Australia and Donald Trump like Greg Norman did.
But what can a nude Greg Norman offer the NRL Grand Final Entertainment that a great Australian artist or international musical superstar can’t?
Plenty.
First of all, based on his photo shoot, to get the crowd working Greg would only need to show a number of his best moves. With a modesty fig leaf applied to allow for a G audience of course. All this can play out with any soundtrack, given the NRL fans music to go with the Greg performance. Talking about ticking all boxes.
But some nude Normans is good and well, some may ask what else can Greg do that a musician can’t to get a crowd working.
Well golf. Duh.
Before being a pin up for sports stars everywhere, he was also the world’s best golfer for a time. So why not put those skills to good use.
The NRL could line up 200 special edition mini footballs, which Greg Norman, now clothed or not (NRL’s choice) , and get Greg to tee them up and blast them into the crowd with his sweet, sweet swing.
And just for fun, and fairness to the fans, he could change irons regularly.
The NRL could even put a voucher for a season ticket to the lucky fans favourite club as a wonderful cross promote.
Finally, with the Dressing Gown finally applied, Greg could host a small Q and A session, be it about the game ahead, or his career in general.
There lies a memorable piece of 2020 NRL Grand Final Entertainment. One that no one would forget. For various reasons.
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