Eddie McGuire opens up on the ‘best times as a father’ as son embarks on college football career

Usually we hear Eddie McGuire talk about the footy, racing or whether his guest will lock in answer B or C, but here he gives an inside look at how he spends his time with his two boys at home.

Eddie McGuire opens up on the joys of spending time with his family. Picture: Karon Photography

Eddie McGuire has opened up about his greatest joys with sons Xander and Joe.

McGuire is currently in the US watching the Ohio State Buckeyes who signed Joe as a college punter in July.

“Sacrifice is going to war and getting shot, that’s a sacrifice,’’ McGuire tells the Business Voice podcast with the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Paul Guerra and Mikkayla Mossop.

“Family is important, it means you do turn up and you are present when you are actually there.

“The best times as a father were sitting on the couch, the boys tucked up each under one arm, watching the telly and chatting and laughing and playing.

“And just offering them security.

Eddie says he speaks to his son, Joe, every day as he embarks on a college football career.

“The other side to that of course is having an unbelievable wife (Carla), who is dedicated to the same ideals.

“Then if you can send your kids to a school that’s at least in the neighbourhood of what your family values are, you’re through to the semis without dropping a set as the great Sam Newman would say.

“You don’t know who their mates are going to be, who their partners are going to be, how they’re influenced, but if there is a foundation from the start then you’re a chance.”

McGuire said he speaks to Joe often.

Eddie McGuire with some of footy media’s finest watching the Buckeyes play in Ohio.

He will be there again this weekend when the Buckeyes play their arch rivals Michigan before more than 110,000 people.

“We talk on the phone every day,’’ McGuire said.

“We zoom each other, Facetime, my parents came out to this country and never saw their parents again.

“Again, the sacrifices is (he’s) overseas but the upside is he’s playing for Ohio State in front of 105,000 people in front of 12 million on American television.

“He’s only the back up punter but he’s there which means he’s a chance.”