He would be a good pick for color commentary./s
For Today's PC climate, he is pretty outspoken.
Rush Limbaugh is the great loss.
I remember Cosell doing Monday Night Football (when it was fun to watch). A bar had a contest every Monday to win a brick, when Howard came on the TV the winner got to throw the brick thru the TV Tube.
Or Jimmy the Greek! Screwed by the woke joke pukes of the day.
The man who used a stage name and wore a hairpiece, “telling it like it is.”
Could care less about sports now. Do need need a “woke” announcer to tell us meaningless drivel about some dumb jock?
"LOOK AT THAT LITTLE MONKEY RUN..!!".. And that was the end of Howard Cosell....
Referred to Alvin Garrett as a “little monkey” and was cancelled.
* Monday Night Football never was the same since he left
* Boxing is now a joke but it was watchable and enjoyable when he did the announcing
* Baseball was still Americas past time when he was announcing Monday Night Baseball(Yes I know he did color commentary but you get the point)
No, he was not perfect but at least he was an old school liberal. But he was a good commenter on all matters of sports and I used to love his "Speaking of Sports" radio spots on New York radio in the 70s. From what I have read, he spent the last decade or so of his life bitter and detached from everybody. He burned all of his bridges out of shear anger and spite and got rid of whatever friends he had. In the bitter end he was an angry old recluse who died alone. Sad.
When Frank, Dandy Don, and Howard did Monday Night Football, those were the glory years of the NFL. I hate what the NFL has become.
No. Cosell would be a soldier in the Woke Army of sports journalists today. No doubt.
Another broadcast blowhard. Don’t miss Cosell at all. At one point he considered a run for The Senate to represent Ohio. I think politics would have been his true environment.
I remember sitting in the Astrodome, Monday night, watching the Oilers vs. Steelers. I looked up at the broadcast booth and could barely make out the ABC crew, with Howard smoking a stogie the size of a log. Those were the days.
“Look at that little monkey run”
Cosell was entertaining back in the day. But if he was around today, he would be the dean of woke leftist shill sports journalists, right up there with Jemele Hill, Max Kellerman, Dan LeBatard, etc. He would just “tell it like the MSM narrative says it is.”
He would be a good pick for color commentary./s
For Today's PC climate, he is pretty outspoken.
What a dumb headline. He’s been gone since 1995, and that question is being asked NOW??
Cosell was a jerk jock sniffer. Don Meredith, on the other hand, with his sense of humor, firsthand knowledge of the game and color reporting, was the best in the football business at the time. Meredith was a jewel, a little short, but a jewel anyway. lol
My dad says he couldn’t stand Kosell.
Cosell was an icon in his day as the most beloved and reviled person in sports. He was profoundly Jewish and liberal. But he did have a talent for stating or asking the questions the rest of the sports world tried hard to avoid.
Before Cosell, most sports figures were treated by tv as if they were gods. They were beyond criticism. In his second Monday Night Football telecast, he had a live TV pre-game interview with Johnny Unitas, the Tom Brady of his generation. Cosell openly suggested that Johnny U.’s skills had eroded and that he might be “all washed up”. A stunned Unitas stammered through a denial that he was washed up but the question was all over the media in the following weeks.
One wonders how a “woke” Cosell would do at ABC/Disney today and whether he could ever endure the “little monkey” controversy again when he referred to a Black receiver for the Redskins as one while reviewing a great play, “Look at that little monkey run!”
