Posted on 09/21/2020 9:55:17 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
---SNIP--- It isn’t just that it’s hard to conjure a similarly impactful moment 50 years later; it’s actually all but impossible to remember a time when the idea of a prime-time football game could cause such a stir. In 1970, ESPN was nine years from birth. Charles Dolan would not found the operation that would become HBO for four more months.
Pro football had dabbled in games outside its Sunday comfort zone a little; the AFL would play games on Fridays and Saturdays. Mostly, though, if you were an NFL fan before Sept. 21, 1970, you got two games on Sundays
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Only mistake was starting it at 9pm est, should have been 8pm.
I will continue to post this until I see it reported in the NY Times, WaPo, and on NBC, and CNN
Please share the letter on any other media sites that you use.
(Please disregard if you have already seen it)
Letter to the NFL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcFR_uQwiw&feature=emb_logo
My Favorite Cosell bit with Ali: Cosell, (after a negative comment of some sort by Ali), “You are being extremely truculent. Ali, immediately right back, “Whatever truculent mean, if it good, I’m that!”
But it was a different time and drinking on the job, especially if it was Monday night, was not as shocking as it seems today. Hell, when I started in the workplace back in the 1980s, liquid lunches were still a thing and having drinks after work was almost a job requirement. But those days were rapidly drawing to an end.
I miss Howard Cosell. I remember people used to hate on him back in the 1970s but I always admired him for his extensive vocabulary and his way with words. He really put the "color" into color commentary. If he was on the broadcast team, it would make me want to watch that event even more.
Also, he did it all back in the day. Not just football. He did baseball, boxing, skiing, racing, you name it.
He was the one that told us that the "Bronx is Burning" and he was the one that told us of John Lennon's assassination in prime time (during a Monday Night Patriots/Dolphins game).
NFL is dead. The diagnosis? Suicide.
Indeed after Pat passed and madden retire lost interest Nascar without DW is just about history for me
I'm not sure who talked him into doing more announcing but he got his start at rec games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZEIMQ42-oU
It looked that way during a brief time in the mid 1970s.
I think it was August 1976 and the Bay City Rollers were coming into Boston for a concert. Local station WRKO would give out the flight information of the plane the band was coming in on. There were 5,000 screaming girls when the plane landed and my sister was one of them. The reception was definitely Beatle-like.
By 1978, the Bay City Rollers were mostly forgotten. But they had quite a ride for a while there.
I actually did watch it. I was in Freshman in high school at the time.
Howard was just showin’ ole Dandy Don that the party was over.... before Donny had a chance to sing, “The party’s over.”
Dandy Don Meredith, Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell...they were a fun crew.
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