Although Cosell did take a big of hit from the PC police back in ‘83 when he famously remarked (about Redskins’ wide receiver Alvin Garrett) “that little monkey gets loose, doesn’t he?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVScwog05Xw
Yeah, I remember that. Too bad it wasn’t shouted down at the time. Cosell did not mean anything by that statement other
than the fact that he was fast.