It's over. Dennis Cometti, the man with tonsils of silver and a wit that can cut like a hot knife through butter, will call his last AFL game this weekend.

The giant of football commentary hangs up his headphones after a broadcasting career that has spanned 49 years. He has been with the Seven Network on and off since the late 1980s and before that worked for the ABC and in FM radio.

He has called a vast array of sports, including cricket, swimming (his call of Kieren Perkins' gold in 1996 is considered one of the greats) and even the annual naked sprint at the Meredith Music Festival. For Gen-Y football fans, he has been the voice of the game for as long as they can remember.