'I love David': The Continuous Call Team's emotional tribute to David Morrow 13:14

Ray Hadley's alongside us, gearing up for a big State of Orrington decider. Ray, it's a very good evening to you. Thank you very much, Mark, and congratulations on that past hour. A wonderful tribute to our colleague, David Mora, and much deserved, and you're right, Peter Volandi's a guest on the program, the

Chair of the ARL Commission confirming with Andrew Abdo there will be a minute of silence and also confirmed by Andrew Johns that the tribute, the montage on the giant screen will be also telecast on the Nine Network which is a wonderful acknowledgement of a great broadcaster. A great broadcaster but we'll dedicate the call tonight in his memory. It's nice to know that Gordon Bray

will dedicate his calls for the Olympics from Paris to his great mate and colleague David Morrow and I know that we've discussed about going to Paris and I'm gratified that

The girls and Christine have said, "Ray, of course you've got to go. David would want you to go." So we'll be doing that in his honour and his memory. And in the back of my mind will be that graphic call of Sally Pearson in 2012. She's won by one one-hundredth of a second.

and Demario was spot on. Absolutely. Good on you, Ray. Looking forward to all of the action tonight. Darryl Broman's been out and about hosting a couple of functions. He's climbed the stairs up into the commentary box and Darryl, as I say good evening to you. I'd love you to pay tribute to a bloke you worked alongside and obviously you became great mates with. There was a

A bit of a bromance that developed between you and Davey over many, many years. Yeah, good afternoon. Oh, good evening to you, Mark, Ray, Piggy, all our listeners. Yeah, I love David. He was a unique bloke.

who could do anything, and he had this uncanny ability to back the winner of the last race every day and just walk out a winner. It's just uncanny. It's amazing how he did that, but he managed to do it. He also, mate, he was a great man. He taught us all, I think, a lot of stuff, you know. To do what he did in his career, he is, I think, Australia's greatest...

man behind a mic to be honest, sporting wise, I think what he's done, he had Olympics, I don't know how many grand finals he called, he would have called a lot of state of origins test match cricket

he's done everything and he loved every bit of it. I mean, for a bloke who loved his footy, I've never seen a bloke more interested in watching cricket at the same time. One of those blokes who could watch cricket and call the footy at the same time. And with the races on as well, he could do three different things at once, which was quite remarkable. But he did do it. And he did it with a great bit of

humility he hated i'll tell you what he did do he hated being wrong as we all know he just hated being wrong and if he did he did stuff up he'd be straight on to dr google and trying to find out exactly what the correct answer was and we took a lot of joy in him stuffing well i did anyway when he did stuff something up i was pretty quick to jump on him but i i loved him um you know he had a

He only had 71 years, but, jeez, he packed a bit into it. You know, I mean, to do what he's done, he's called sport for, I don't know how many years, 50 years or so, and called it damn well. You know, to his wife, Christine, and the girls, you know, our condolences. It is a sad day. Yeah, it certainly is, Darrell. I was just thinking too, Ray, over in Perth when we went to Origin, Davey had his famous pink jumper on because we went to lunch yesterday.

Did he have it on or drape it around his shoulder? No, he had it on. He always wore his pink jumper out to lunch. But I just remember walking into Darryl's birthday lunch and his two daughters, every five seconds they were just repeating, David Morrow. My daughters, yeah. Because on the show, you know, we'd have somebody on, so it was whoever. Andrew Abder. Andrew Abder.

Andrew? David Morrow. Ruby at the end of the day, like we'd had a pretty big day, you know, lunch and whatever over in Perth and Ruby was only, you know, obviously a bit younger then and she'd had a fairly big day.

She went up to David right at the end of the day. It was probably about 8 o'clock, and he had this habit of annoying the crap out of you. You know, when he'd been there all day, and he'd just take over the whole thing. And she said to him, and I won't say exactly the word she used, she said, David Morrow, shut the hell up. LAUGHTER

He was taken back for about five seconds. Then he just went straight back into what he was doing. He's one of the great people you'd ever met. And he's so much fun, wasn't he? Just so much fun to be around. What do you reckon, Piggy? Do you reckon he's sitting upstairs somewhere in that pink jumper with Bob Fulton, Tommy Radonikis, getting ready to watch Oregon? We were only going through a few of the photos and I just was having a look this afternoon at...

You remember when we all went out for lunch and a few drinks to celebrate his induction into the SCG Hall of Fame? And one of the photos I actually have on my phone is where he was getting a little bit cranky with me because I kept on loading him with, what were they? Espresso martinis. Espresso martinis.

And there he was in his pink jumper. Mate, what about the story? I don't know if you've told it before. I came up here a few years ago for a State of Origin. We actually came up on the Tuesday. So there was me, him, I think all you guys were there. And Ellen Langer was there. Anyway, there was a betting company that we were all involved in. They took us out for lunch. Alfie had this uncanny ability to start a drinking game at the end of lunch.

And the drinking game was you'd put, say, a glass there, you'd fill it half up with red wine. And if you stuffed up or made a mistake, you had to scald the red wine. Well, the drinking game went like this. You asked a question, but there had to be multiple answers as you went around the table. Alfie would say, OK, who won? Name a Penrith player who's played for Australia, starting with P, to my right. And he'd always look to his left. And poor old David, who was sitting on his left...

would just fall for it every time. He'd say, well, that would be Porkinson or something like that. He'd say no. So David would have to scull. Then when it was David's turn to ask a question, like he had to ask a question that had multiple answers. But David's question would be,

OK, who won the 1980 Melbourne Cup? And we'd immediately say, mate, that's not the game. You've got to give... Oh, OK, I'll just... I'll just go with that. Didn't help me destroy him that night. He was just dribbling. No, it was... He was just a great bloke to be around. Great fun. Just to echo your sentiments about the stature of his broadcasting, I think I'm qualified to comment, having done what I've done for the past 40 years,

and I've sat alongside the best commentators over the last four decades and before that, as a young bloke, I observed a lot of other commentators that were great in their day. But, and I throw all of them into this, all of the commentators, no one, no one in the history of broadcasting was as versatile as David Mono in Australia. No one. He was equally at home doing rugby league, his chosen sport,

But Cricket was a great, great... And he was a great... I got a few notes today from... He loved Cricket. I got a few notes today from blokes who were aficionados. I'm not a great Cricket person. There's not much about it. But they said he was just without peer. His knowledge of Cricket and the history of the game was impeccable. His call of Sally Pearson and, you know, all the other... Usain Bolt and all the other ones we heard. And I was alongside him for most of those races in another broadcast position. But...

You throw that in, and as I said, Alan Marks would throw him a headset and say, Thirsty, we need the rowing done. We've got a gold medal chance in the eights. Kayaking. You know, whatever it was, shooting. I mean, whatever it was, he could do it. He could just do it. And while others may be intimidated by the fact that you've got, you know, three minutes to prepare for something that's happening live...

He was never phased. He was never phased by it. And the storytelling, you know, you talk about him. He grew up with some of the great storytellers from the ABC. The best of all was George Griljic from Perth. A great, great commentator, but a better storyteller. And I remember going to Victoria, Canada with them both, and we were staying at the same motel for the Commonwealth Games. And after one night at track and field, Griljic and Morrow stood there

on the veranda going toe to toe with stories I said Thirsty you're not going to beat George he said well I'm not going to give up trying and they were great mates George has also gone but look there'll be people listening and our fellow commentators from the ABC I'm talking from days gone by

who'd have a million stories about Thirsty and the things that happened during his decades there and the last nine years or ten years spent here in commercial radio. That was the other thing that was mentioned, I think, by Peter Basolvis, the fact that after decades there at the ABC, you couldn't even call that Suncorp. You were at the ground in Brisbane.

You couldn't call Ronson Field Ronson Field. You couldn't call Allianz Allianz. You couldn't call it ANZ Stadium. You had to call it the Olympic Stadium because the charter of the ABC is no commercialism. So here he was enshrined in this uncommercial world

for all these decades. Well, he took the commercial radio like a duck to water. Sure did. Oh, did he ever. We had to remind him, though, Ray, what could be said on the ABC in three minutes. We had commercial break, so we had to wind him up. So we used to have the six again bell. So when he started going off in a tantrum, we'd go to ding, ding. He also, he remarkably got his own segments on this great show on a Saturday and a Sunday. He had two of them. One was a trip down memory lane. Like, that was just...

Awful. But, Darrell, in defence of Davey, he'd missed the brief, right? So I said to Davey on Sunday night after the footy when we were all tired, I said, Davey, you've got some of the great stories like Ray. Here's an opportunity to tell some of those stories. I think I knew he missed the brief, Ray, when he walked in the first week and he said, Levy, I'm going to give the history of the Parramatta Reels. Yes.

I said, it's got to be entertaining, Davey. It's boring. Anyway, so these blokes. What was the other one? 1947. Where are they now? What about where are they now? That was pretty good. That was good. That was good.

It was just whether he turned his mic on or not. And how his chair was performing. I used to have this bad habit of when he would come in, I'd put his chair down like to the floor as low as possible. What, the lever on the side? Yeah, the lever on the side. And then I'd leave it and let it go back. He didn't know how to work it out. You know the other one I just thought of, when he got his two new hips? Yep.

The funniest thing, Darrell racing Davey around the production floor, around the desks. I said, these blokes are in their late 60s. Not them we were. I would have beaten him easily too. Well, he just had two new hips on him. He should have had an advantage on me. Good on you. Good stuff. What about also he had his locker? What about he had his locker with his own code to it? You couldn't get his own. It wouldn't work.

Yeah, a locker at BC Field. I've been there 24 years. I don't know anything about these lockers. A locker. What about when he used to come in and just print out a million things on the photocopier? Like, he'd be on the photocopier for half an hour. I said, what are you doing? Just copying something. And he had mates everywhere too, didn't he, Darrell? Especially after that Canberra controversial loss in the grand final. I've had 700 text messages. LAUGHTER

He is the most, I've said it before, he's the most unique person I've ever met. You know, different in so many ways. I used to love the way, and I know it's hard for the listeners to comprehend this, but he'd be in the middle of talking to you in the studio or something, and the next minute he'd start rolling his arm over, bowling and Googling. This is fair dinkum. And you'd sit there and say, what are you doing?

While you're Googling. Just stand there in the middle of talking about some of the greatest players or games of all time. Next minute, he just rolls the arm over. He actually did it last Friday when I was there last Friday. Like he was, you know, he wasn't well. We knew he wasn't well at that stage. But I was sitting, he was sitting there. Next minute, he rolled the arm over again. He did it. I don't know whether he was out of habit or whether he just wanted to do it.

in front of everyone or not, I don't know, but he did it. It was just remarkable. And given Christine and the girls are listening, he took great joy in telling us the story of the Boxing Day where Christine broke the finger, Kat taking the catch. Catch in the slips. He said, yes, she broke a finger, but she took the catch. Great catch. It's an edge. Good stuff.