To: pfflier
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..
7 posted on
03/14/2003 12:28:52 PM PST by
ken5050
To: ken5050
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.
16 posted on
03/14/2003 12:33:05 PM PST by
SamAdams76
(California wine tastes better - boycott French wine!)
To: ken5050
So did Howard Cosell on MNF when he referred to a football player (punt returner?) as a "little monkey". He said it affectionately but the proverbial s**t hit the fan. IIRC he wasn't invited back for the next season.
It was certainly not as funny as when Alex Karras commented on a close up of a defensive lineman's bald steaming head, "Otis Sistrunk, University of Mars".
18 posted on
03/14/2003 12:36:41 PM PST by
katana
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