The world lost a comic genius yesterday when Robin Williams tragically died at the age of 63.
Williams was an avid sports fan, once famously describing Australian Rules football as “rugby with a thong” and cricket as “baseball on valium”.
He was an avid supporter of the San Francisco Giants baseball team and 49ers football team, as well as the Tour de France and the All Blacks.
Williams recalls watching the All Blacks play France in 1999.
“And then when I saw the All Blacks do the Haka, I thought, ‘Oh no! They’re going to eat the other team! They’re going to beat these poor Frenchmen and then they’re going to eat them, with a nice chardonnay.”
Williams became a friend of Jonah Lomu. In 2011 Williams recalled in the Christchurch Press, “I finally got to meet him [Lomu] when I came down to New Zealand, I think I was there to promote What Dreams May Come.
“I got to meet him and he’s amazing… ‘Wait a minute; you’re a wall with legs!’ I think he picked me up and put me on his shoulders: ‘Put me down, Kong!’ He was so huge, but kind.”
Mrs Doubtfire was a keen soccer player, and Williams often talked about sport in his stand-up shows, making some hilarious observations.
Playing a Denver Broncos cheerleader on Mork and Mindy.
On the Origins of golf
On the 2002 Winter Olympics
On soccer
On American football
Highlights of the best of times
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