December 14, 1984…Howard Cosell Retires From Monday Night Football
I think the best way to mark the occasion is with this video. The great Billy Crystal story on Howard that he told to David Letterman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjL9_9aS51U
Billy Crystal’s Story About A Drunk, Weeping Howard Cosell
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ABC Election Coverage, November 1980, Studio TV 2 New York Here are a dozen or so great pictures from John Schmidt of the election set. The candidates were incumbent Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Independent John Anderson. In some of these, you can see reporters Frank Reynolds, Ted Koppel, Max Robinson and Barbara Walters. The […]
I remember doing Monday night football in 1972 at Tiger stadium and watching him unfold himself from the cab. He was a tall man.
Howard would greet us in the abc hallways martini glass in hand, then march into the Chiron room to meet the girls.
I remember picking up Howard Cosell’s autobiography on cassette tape at a used book store in the early 90’s. Great stuff even then.