The Detroit Free Press reported on Thursday Russell Crowe will be featured in the third quarter cameo on Monday Night Football Oct. 22 when the Jacksonville Jaguars face the Indianapolis Colts here in Jacksonville. Thanks to Jacksonville Axemen coach Daryl Spinner Howland for pointing this story out to us.
I haven’t been able to determine whether Crowe will actually be at the football game. A source has, however, confirmed he’ll be in Jacksonville.
Crowe is already a favorite celeb here in the First Coast City, since his South Sydney Rabbitohs will play the Leeds Rhinos January 26, 2008. The date is important to Aussies—that’s Australia Day. So the event is dubbed the “Australia Day Challenge.” The Jacksonville Axemen site reports the Rhinos won the Grand Final Game in the Superleague Competition in the United Kingdom—that’s like winning the Superbowl here in the U.S.
I’ve bought a bunch of tickets for my family and some friends—we’re planning a big day here in Jax.
I’m also working on a couple of articles about this event. A friend asked me a few days ago, “What’s Russell Crowe like in person?”
“Absolutely charming,” I told her. Crowe is one of the most gracious artists or personalities I have ever met, and that includes brilliant poets, musicians, Pulitzer winning fiction writers, a governor and a slew of other politicians, and an Academy Award nominee whose name I am deliberately withholding. Crowe’s passion for rugby league and his team is contagious. He also comes across as a family man. If he weren’t an Aussie, I’d swear he was Southern, and I mean that as the highest compliment I could pay a man. (I can hear groans from some quarters as I write this, but I’m Southern and very proud of it. Political correctness is something I've outgrown.)
So there you go. That’s my take as I prepare to hang up my freelance writing shingle tonight after a week that I can only describe as completely cataclysmic.
(Text and photo by Kay B. Day/all rights reserved/copyright 2007)
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