Peter Sterling won 4 NRL Premierships with the Parramatta Eels in the 1980’s, won the inaugural Clive Churchill Medal in 1986 for best on ground in the Grand Final and the ‘Golden Boot’ Award for best player in the world in 1989. Peter played 13 games for the NSW Blues in State of Origin (winning the man of the match on 4 occasions) and 18 Tests for Australia. In retirement, Peter is a high-profile Nine Network rugby league commentator and media pundit.

In 1992, Peter’s role at Nine increased from commentator to that of contributor to Nine’s national sports programmes Wide World of Sports and Sports Sunday. In the following year with the debut of Nine’s then new Sunday afternoon The Footy Show, Peter was teamed with fellow commentator Paul ‘Fatty’ Vautin for the first time. The partnership took off immediately. The following year, after a month-long trial of the program in a Thursday night primetime slot during the 1993 league finals, Peter added the hugely successful primetime version of the show to his television commitments.

Peter was a co-host on Nine Network’s The NRL Footy Show with Paul Vautin from 1994 to 2006. He made a special appearance on the first episode of 2007 to bid farewell then took up the position as host of The Sunday Footy Show. He also took up a key commentary role in Nine’s game coverage.