Sports Fan
An avid sports fan since childhood, Rogers enjoys the game of Australian rules football and has played in the 2005 Community Cup charity match for the Annual Sacred Heart Mission located in Melbourne, Australia; Rogers also participated in the Reclink Charity match for the homeless in 2009. He is also a supporter of the North Melbourne Football Club and joined in the fight against the Australian Football League's push to relocate the club to the Gold Coast, Queensland; as part of the protest, Rogers hosted a benefit concert, called "Roo-sistence", that featured You Am I, T'N'T and other popular Australian rock bands.
Rogers is also an avid fan of the South Sydney Rabbitohs Australian rugby league club and performed in the opening ceremony of the 2010 NRL Grand Final.
In late 2004, Rogers wrote an ad jingle, "Our Time Begins Again Today", for the Australian Cricket Board's summer promotional campaign, "Long Live The Weekend".
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