[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..

[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.

[katana]

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".