Jack Mueller  Jack Mueller (9 September 1915 – 14 June 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was famous for having only eight fingers, after losing two when he caught his hand in a machine at work. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Mueller was a football commentator on 3KZ, working first with Norman Banks and later Philip Gibbs. Mueller also worked with Gibbs on the program "Football Inquest", which was later simulcast on 3KZ and GTV-9.