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Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell's Friends
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Interested In:
Just looking around
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Member Since:
May 2004
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Hometown:
Brooklyn
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Company:
ABC television and radio networks
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Howard Cosell's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/8902812
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Other education:
Columbia University, NYU Law
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Occupation:
Sports commentator and TV host
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Affiliations:
American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame, ASA's # 2 Sportscaster of the 20th Century (Vin Scully was )
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What I enjoy doing:
Telling it like it is
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Favorite Books:
I Never Played The Game (by yours truly)
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Favorite Movies:
Bananas, When We Were Kings, Better Off Dead
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Favorite Music:
Monday Night Football theme, Wide World of Sports theme
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Favorite TV Shows:
Monday Night Football, Wide World of Sports, Monday Night Baseball, Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, Battle of the Network Stars, Soap (that Billy Crystal is a TALENT!)
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About Me:
I have been called obnoxious, bombastic, sarcastic, confrontational, and a know-it-all. Of course, I am ALL of these things.
In the 60s I stood by Muhammad Ali and his refusal to go to Vietnam.
A poll in the mid 70s revealed I was the most hated sportscaster in America. That same poll also showed I was the most BELOVED.
My most imitated catchphrase came from the Foreman-Frazier fight in 1973. Remember this? Down goes FRAY-ZIER! DOWN goes FRAY-ZIER!!! DOWN GOES FRAY-ZIER!!!!!
I even hosted my own ABC variety show called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell in 1975, where I billed the Bay City Rollers as the next BEATLES. America wasn't ready to see an old Jew like myself in a toupee doing a song-and-dance routine with Ali, and sadly the show was cancelled.
But I am best known for my work on ABC's Monday Night Football with Frank Gifford and Dandy Don Meredith (and later one Orenthal James Simpson). The public thought I was insensitive when, in 1983, I uttered the phrase LOOK at that LITTLE MONKEY RUN! as I described a reception by Washington Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett, an African American. People didn't realize I called my grandchildren little monkeys...it was a term of endearment. It is preposterous for anyone to think there was anything racial about it.
I died in 1995.
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Who I Want to Meet:
More Friendstahs. My last name is ABC Sports.
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Frazier!!!"
yours would make a good bounty
hunter. Like him and the Delfonics, you
remind me of a bygone era when
celebs such as yourself were godlike
and untouchable, technology was
dreamlike yet big and clunky, my shag
rug was cool, and I could still ride the
wave of my initial success in "Medium
Cool" just a little longer. Damn, the 70s
were a good time for pulling off
combovers and getting typecast as
regular joes with hidden issues. Thank
god I kept my hair.
whining and complaining, I used to fantasize
about entering the ring opposite her and having
Howard call the fight. Luckily, I managed to keep
my hands to myself and I got a divorce instead.
These days I wonder what it would be like to go
shopping with sweet old Howard, to Sak's or
maybe Lord & Taylor, just to hear his play-by-play
while I try on sexy lingerie.
just keep droning on and on! Oh! Snap it up!
Let's go! Move it, buster!
there was nothing I could do to recapture
my glory years, Howard took me under
his wing. He said he would make me a
musical superstar again and take me all the
way to the top of the charts. Then he died
three weeks later and I hit the crack
pretty hard.
Carter!!
at Flashdancers the other night, and I said to
myself "Why the hell not? She's chubby, but I'll
throw it in her." So I'm feedin' her Brooklyn
Lager's like nobody's business, and then, right
when I'm about to blow my load in her mouth,
she starts chattin' up a storm. And what the
$%&@, dude, she's soundin' just like you. Talk
about a buzzkill... fuck.