SATIRE –
The NRL has decided to tackle its financial woes during the Corona Virus Crisis, by bringing back one of its most controversial and well-known characters from the mid 1990s.
Mahatma Cote will be undertaking a speaking tour and performing some of his musical hits, including ‘Delhi belly’, ‘Warney Stole My Baked Beans’ and ‘The Curry Came to Kill Me’ in the beer gardens of closed country pubs and clubs or hidden away in shearing sheds to larger crowds, away from the prying eyes of police and government officials.
Mahatma previously stretched socially acceptable boundaries over 2 decades ago on the NRL Footy Show. The Punjabi native’s career has been given a lifeline as the NRL baulks at opening up its books and explaining to the Player’s Association, as to where the hundreds of millions of dollars went from the broadcast TV deals over the last decade. 25 years has passed and what Mahatma got away with then, now appears like a life sentence now. It’s up to the former star to keep the cash register changing for the game, while the executives take a minimal pay cut and the lowest paid players start eating off the floor.
It looks as if the NRL hierarchy will be rolling out the former star and others in an attempt to fill the coffers. NRL COO, Ted Greenburg said, “Look if Mahatma goes ok we will probably roll out Terry Hill and Nads. The dish licker did pretty well on debut at Dapto in 96. I hear his form is still solid. As for Hill, we are thinking of holding a sausage sizzle and having him and Ken Callandar Call a horse race where every horse has an S in its name. At least we are doing more than Rugby Australia. They’re $9 mill in the red even after stealing our best players.”
This is a satirical story which is unlikely true.
