Bu PETER ROWE

A $20 bet created possibly the greatest rugby league celebration in history – the goanna – the try-scoring move created by Indigenous legend Greg Inglis.Inglis was inducted into the NRL Hall of Fame last week, celebrating a career in the game that began in country NSW and ended with Premiership glory and a starring role for the Kangaroos.

GI revealed in his acceptance speech the origins of his now famous celebration dated back to a phone call with his cousin on 2012.

“He goes, ‘alright, go and bring something out’. I ask ‘what would you like’?” Inglis said.

Greg Inglis tries on his NRL Hall of Fame jacket at an awards dinner in Sydney.

“He said ‘I want you to do a backflip’. I said I can’t do a backflip, I’ll land on my neck.

“He said ‘I want you to do a front flip’. I said no, I cant do a front flip, I’ll land on my face.

“Plus those two have already been done anyway with Anthony Mundine and Nathan Blacklock.

“So I said ‘I need to bring out the goanna’, and that’s how I started it.”

Greg Inglis with fellow Hall of Fame inductee and former Souths teammate Sam Burgess.

Inglis played 263 NRL games for the Storm and Rabbitohs, winning grand finals in 2007, 2009 and 2014.

He also played 39 Tests for Australia and 32 games for Queensland, but fans believe his best achievements came from that goanna celebration.

Inglis has since started the Goanna Academy, an organisation that works to held end the sigma surrounding mental health, assisting all Australians and at risk groups.