Russell Crowe shares moving tribute to Rob Burrow as he makes call to rugby fans

Russell Crowe's moving tribute to Rob Burrow as he makes call to rugby fansSource: Russell Crowe

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00:00 G'day folks, how you doing? It's Russell Crowe here coming to you live from Sydney Harbour.

00:05 See, we do get the occasional grey day for those people in England. I know I've been

00:12 talking to you a lot lately about the indoor garden party tour of Europe that's coming

00:17 up soon, but this message is not about that. I'd like to talk to you about what's coming

00:22 up this weekend. It's the Challenge Cup final. It's Wigan versus Warrington. But more specifically,

00:29 I want to talk to you about the passing of the little champion Rob Burrow this week.

00:35 And on the weekend at Wembley, when all the finals are taking place, in every finals game

00:40 in the seventh minute, there's going to be a minute of celebration of Rob's life and

00:46 his contribution to the sport. And beautifully, it's not going to be a minute of silence,

00:51 it's going to be a minute of applause. And I think that's befitting the little champion.

00:56 Personally, I have some guilt to bear because I was supposed to do this podcast and it's

01:01 one of those things that I kept saying to myself, "I'll get around to it, I'll get around

01:04 to it." Now, I'm going to have to deal with the fact that I messed that up. Anyway, so

01:09 if you love rugby league and you loved what that little champion did in every single jersey

01:16 that he ever played in, go to Wembley. Go to Wembley and celebrate his life and his

01:22 career and celebrate the rugby league community.