You do realize that there are quite a few Freepers who don’t know who Cosell was, don’t you? I knew I was old around 1997 when I mentioned John Belushi to a young co-worker. She promptly asked me “who’s John Belushi?”
Howard Cosell is without a doubt the greatest sportscaster in the history of broadcast television. Yes, he never played the game and yes, he had the dreaded law degree, but he was nevertheless the most intelligent broadcaster ever put into a booth at a U.S. sporting event.
His IQ was 178 which puts him well ahead of Stephen Hawkins and slightly below Albert Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci.
I think Cosell deliberately tried to provoke people and quite frankly didn’t care much what people thought about him. He liked the image he projected. Yes, whether you liked him or not, he was certainly very intelligent. I sort of liked the abrasive Howard. He certainly wasn’t your typical, gushing “all the players are great” broadcaster.
Some years back there was a young nurse...just out of training...who was temporarily assigned to our unit.The conversation came around to Clapton's "unplugged" version of "Layla" that was being played on the radio at that time.I commented that I like the original version better and a co-worker agreed with me.This young girl then said "you mean he's done that before?" Talk about feeling old.