Love him or hate him, his voice was unmistakable even as it came through those little three-inch speakers on portable TV's that die-hard sports fans carried out to the patio along with their beer and snacks.
Most memorable for me was the long and booming introduction Cosell did for Frank Sinatra's come-back concert at Madison Square Garden, The Main Event, way back in 1974.
Sinatra had taken a year off and was having some difficulty hitting the right notes, allegedly due to laryngitis.
The audience of 20,000 fans didn't care.
But Rex Reed wrote a scathing review that would have been just short of starting a war by today's overly-sensitive media standards.
Howard Cosell, who most likely couldn't sing a note, nevertheless had a voice well-suited for his chosen profession.
Remember, Howard was the one who tried to foist The Bay City Rollers as the “next Beatles.”