[pfflier]

Howard Cosell lost his job over exactly that word in exactly that context.

[ken5050]

No...Jimmy the Greek lost his job..and a few years ago, Billy Packer referred to Alan Iverson as monkey....he apologized about 6000 times on air..

[Timesink]

Howard wasn't fired for that, was he? I think he got heat, but since it wasn't really the PC era yet, he just ignored everyone that bitched about it and went on with MNF.

[L,TOWM]

"Look at that little monkey go!"

I still remember my step dad and I looking at each other and I said "C'ya Howard!" My step dad said "You got that right", and mom said "over that? Don't be ridiculous".

The peculiar part is, my mom used to be a Conservative on Fiscal/Foreign Policy and Liberal on "Social Issues" (abortion). Now she votes straight rat, and is as PC as they come--except for a few rare lapses...

[AUsome Joy]

Jimmy the Greek was in New Orleans for the Saints wild card game the week before he made that comment. I remember because my husband and I were down for the Sugar Bowl game between Auburn and Syracuse. We had breakfast at Brennan's one morning and Jimmy was there, also. He had eaten on the patio and had gone into the kitchen to talk to the staff.

The following site has this information and more about his comments and life:

http://www.goodbyemag.com/apr/snyder.htm
Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder was ejected from the public eye in 1988 when, on Martin Luther King's birthday, he said that blacks are better at sports because of slave plantation breeding techniques. "During the slave period, the slave owner would breed his big black with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid–that's where it all started."

This idiotic remark led to his firing as a "commentator" at CBS, where he was in the business of predicting winners and losers from a bettor's perspective.