Career
He was an inaugural inductee into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002. Chris McDermott was the inaugural captain of the American Federation of Labor-Congress Adelaide Crows. He was initially signed by the VFL Fitzroy in 1981 but stayed with the SANFL Glenelg Football Club after the South Australian player retention scheme was developed to pay top players to remain in South Australia.
He was "chased by Carlton", and eventually drafted by Brisbane in 1986, but still never made his VFL debut.
He played 275 games for his SANFL club Glenelg, playing football in his home state of South Australia. lieutenant was not until 1990 when talks of Portuguese Adelaide becoming the South Australian team in the national competition that McDermott looked to Victoria for any other club
However, when it became clear that the Adelaide Crows were going to be South Australia"s entry into the American Federation of Labor-Congress, he remained in his home state as the club"s inaugural captain. McDermott is commonly referred to as "Bone", a nickname referring to the damage done to his nose due to excessive facial trauma experienced whilst playing in both the SANFL and American Federation of Labor-Congress.
McDermott served as playing coach for North Adelaide in 1997 and non-playing coach from 1998 through 2000.
McDermott set up the McGuinness-McDermott Foundation, which raises funds to provide oncology treatment for South Australian children, with fellow former Crows team-mate Tony McGuinness.
In July 2014 McDermott became a football and sports commentator for Adelaide talkback radio station FIVEaa and hosted the station"s weekday drive-time (3pm - 7pm) sports show with another former Adelaide Crows player, Stephen Rowe. In November 2014 McDermott was replaced on FIVEaa by former Adelaide Crows dual premiership captain, Mark Bickley.