Posted on 08/09/2015 11:59:08 AM PDT by Perdogg
Legendary New York Giants star Frank Gifford, the pro Football Hall of Famer who transferred smoothly to the announcers’ booth after retiring, died Sunday morning. He was 84.
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You beat me to it. It appears Frank had a number of lives, because I’m pretty sure one of them ended right there.
RIP One more NFL great gone.
The great thing about Gifford as a player, is that he never, to my knowledge, whined about that hit Concrete Charlie put on him, even if it knocked him out for the rest of the season and all of next year.
Bednarik said it was because Gifford understood that it was a clean hit, and they both played hard to win, and that’s why he and Gifford were in the hall of fame.
If anything, they are both laughing at the Prima Donnas we call football heroes now.
Turn out the lights....
RIP
I remember Gifford playing when I was a kid. Back in the days when football was a real game.
The Monday Night Football broadcast crew I knew when I was a kid is gone - Frank Gifford, Dandy Don and Howard Cosell. For that matter, so are Jack Buck and Hank Stram, who I used to listen to half the time when Don wasn’t in the mood to make fun of Howard. Man, time sure does fly. RIP Mr. Gifford.
I had no idea he was 84 years old thought he was much younger..Condolences to the Gifford family..RIP
And if one looks at the video, indeed, he goes down like a rag doll but as the other poster said, Gifford didn’t complain, he was okay with me.
What a classy guy was Frank Gifford.
Cosell was useful, entertaining, and educational. Especially, on those occasions where the two real football players had to explain something that had to do with athletic skill to someone who didn’t have any.
Growing up in the late 70s/early 80 (before ESPN, cable TV) MNF was an event. With Howard Cossell and Dandy Don Meredith. He was the calming voice among the noise. Seemed like a class act. RIP.
And then he claimed he never said it.
The hit from that angle didn’t look particularly vicious at all. Certainly not like George Atkinson’s hit on Daryl Stingley.
It was Jack Tatum on Stingley. Will never forget it. I was 13 years old.
That’s right.
Drunken Howard Cosell threw up on Don Meridith’s cowboy boots during one broadcast.
ABC executive Jim Spence wrote that Cosell’s wife would call Spence when she heard drunken Howard’s voice at the beginning of a broadcast and could tell he was drunk.
She would beg Spence to make sure he got back safely to the hotel after the game.
Clueless Cosell poisoned every sport he broadcast.
Boxing fans knew he was a clueless jerk and just turned the sound off.
Football fans hated him with a passion for stinking up their enjoyment of their games.
Yeah also deal with Howard Cosell crap LOL!
Cosell: “Hold that car!!”
Someone inside the elevator: “This is for the WORKING press, Howard”, and the door slammed shut.
One long ago Monday night at the Kingdome.
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