How AFL superstar Isaac Heeney pranked his mum by telling her he was offered a $2 million NRL contract – and her response will make rugby league fans FURIOUS

Isaac Heeney will be a key figure as the Swans chase AFL premiership glory on Friday night – but he once fooled his mum into thinking he’d be competing for a grand final win in the NRL.

Back in 2021, Heeney dropped a bombshell to his mother Rochelle on live radio, informing her he was switching footy codes after accepting a whopping $2million NRL contract from the Sydney Roosters.

Her response won’t make rugby league fans happy. 

‘F**k me drunk, it’s the dumb-a**e game’, she responded on Nova FM‘s Fitzy and Wippa show after initially being supportive.

Eventually her youngest son put Rochelle out of her misery and confessed it was an on-air joke.

Before choosing AFL as his path, Heeney excelled at multiple sports growing up in the NSW Hunter region, including soccer, cricket and you guessed it, rugby league.

But Aussie rules was Heeney’s passion, and he moved to Sydney as a teenager, completing his final year of school at Waverley College.

Heeney made his AFL debut in 2015 – and on Friday night versus Port Adelaide in the preliminary final at the SCG, chalks up game number 200. 

‘I’m a competitor, so I want to crack in and want to be known as someone that doesn’t shy away from any contest and leads by example,’ Heeney said this week ahead of his milestone match.

‘Horse’ (coach John Longmire) will sometimes go ‘Alright mate, we need something from you here.

‘Whether that’s me having a bit of a quiet game and he needs to rev me up to get me going…..or whether he just needs me to hopefully stand up and try and take the game on. 

‘If I can be one of those players, I love that.’

Heeney’s heroics may well be required on Friday on home soil as the Swans try to overcome an eight-game losing streak against Port Adelaide which dates as far back as 2016.

The Power also humiliated this season’s minor premiers by 112 points last month, taking a 71-point lead before the Bloods posted their first score.

‘We need to get the contest right (on Friday),’ Heeney stated. ‘When we get on the ground and hold the corridor and use the ball well, we are hard to beat.

‘That (112-point loss) was in the past and we were a bit out of form at that stage, so I feel that we’re back.

‘A win’s a win. I couldn’t care if it’s one point or 20.’