[SamAdams76]

That may be so but Howard Cosell also got in hot water over saying about a black football player: "Look at that little monkey run" or something to that effect. This was back in 1983 on a Monday Night Football telecast. I remember that controversy clearly. Of course, Howard didn't mean anything racist by it. Howard had been a staunch support of black athletes all the way back to Cassius Clay in the 1960s.

[robertpaulsen]

"It also chronicles Cosell's most infamous remark, when, during a Monday Night Football broadcast in October 1983, he exclaimed, "Look at that little monkey run!" about African-American Washington Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett. The comment, which Cosell also used to describe his playful grandson, led to immediate outcries of racism, and despite a Cosell denial and a supportive statement by Jesse Jackson, Cosell pals Cosby, Ali and even Garrett himself, the fallout contributed to Cosell's decision to leave Monday Night Football two months later."
--eonline.com