- Dwayne Russell starred for Port Adelaide and Geelong
- Is now an AFL commentary star with SEN radio
Footy great turned top commentator Dwayne Russell has left AFL fans baffled by posting a video of his bizarre mid-show drink.
The former Port Adelaide and Geelong star now hosts Dwayne’s World and covers games for SEN radio, and shared footage as he prepared a strange milk drink during an ad break during his program on Thursday.
Russell takes a one-litre bottle of low-fat Pura Light Start milk and adds a sachet of Nescafe Blend 43 instant coffee to it, then shakes the mixture and chugs it down.
The clip startled some footy fans when it was posted to X, with one commenting, ‘Like watching a little kid at recess.’
‘Full bottle of milk is crazy,’ another wrote.
‘@VictoriaPolice there’s a mad man on the loose,’ added a third.
Pictured: Port and Cats great Dwayne Russell adds coffee to his one-litre low-fat milk during an ad break on his radio program, leading one footy fan to brand him a ‘mad man’
Russell, 60, blew fans’ minds when he detailed the incredible amount of sugar and caffeine he consumes when he’s covering AFL matches
‘The man’s arteries defy science,’ another fan commented.
‘Bro is walking a tightrope between sane and bats**t crazy,’ another added.
Russell, 60, ups the ante when he gets hungry and thirsty while covering matches.
He has previously revealed he consumes an incredible amount of sugar and caffeine while he’s covering matches.
‘Every day that I do a game I do a Coke every quarter, so a can of Coke, two Red Bulls, and normally a family block of Caramello [chocolate] just to get me through,’ he told Seven’s The Front Bar last year.
Asked if he had a favourite variety of milk, Russell confessed he had ‘stolen many a milk from the MCG fridge’.
‘I stole the last carton at three-quarter time a few weeks before and I thought, I’ll bring my own.
‘I’m a bit of a milk lover, a connoisseur.
‘You can probably tell your different beers, and have a blind taste test of beers.
‘You can put four or five milks out front and I could probably tell you where they’re from.’
Russell played 71 games for Port in the SANFL from 1981 to 1986, kicking 133 goals, then switched to Geelong from 1987 to 1991, bagging 51 majors in his 50 matches for the Cats.
His career in the media began in Geelong in 1989, and has worked for the Age newspaper as well as Nine, 3AW and Fox Sports.
