Hundreds of mourners from the sporting and media world joined Sam Landsberger’s family to pay tribute to the 35-year-old, who died in a traffic accident last Tuesday.
Somehow amid their devastation, family and friends of Sam Landsberger laid the esteemed sports journalist to rest on Monday in a beautiful and moving funeral at Temple Beth Israel Synagogue.Sam Landsberger’s mother Annie and father Jake paid a wonderful tribute to their son.“I delivered Sam, I nurtured Sam, and I’m so grateful that I was with Sam right to the end when he passed away ... so we are together forever,” she said.
The mourners laughed amid the tears as his sister recalled drawings by his nieces and nephews that sat proudly on his fridge, and the time he spent with the youngsters, who adored their uncle. There might have been jokes about his lack of sporting prowess being matched by the love of the games he was able to cover so well.
Testament to the regard he was held was the presence of cricketers Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell, as well as Bulldog icons Doug Hawkins and Marcus Bontempelli and chief football writers past and present from both major Victorian newspapers. AFL CEO Andrew Dillon, AFLPA CEO Paul Marsh, Collingwood president Jeff Browne and peers and mates in the journalism world were also in attendance.
“Always and forever, whenever we signed off, it was ‘Hooray’. You always said ‘Hooray’, so ‘Hooray Sam’... I simply treasured you and I know you treasured me,” she said.
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