Howard Cosell drunk and pugnacious

[@roberttuss5349]

I consider myself fortunate to come of age listening to the great Howard Cosell.

[@TroyFutureExpat]

I grew up listening to Howard Cosell. I loved the guy to be honest. I couldn't wait for Monday night football. My dad would let me stay up to watch it. I also learned all kinds of big words LOL. I used to love the way he called out. Sir Francis Asbury Tarkington. When describing my childhood hero, "Scramblin" Fran Tarkington.

[@usedturtleshell3364]

i like how he just had an “i don’t care, lets watch football” type of attitude in the booth, and he didn’t give a shit if he had a drink or two💀

[@warrenl6863]

Compared to the shills who do the sports commentary these days, Howard was terrific.

[@mrlaw711]

Regardless, he was terrific.

[@savidge08]

The 1970s in American what a great time to be alive.

[@kaneforgov558]

Like thousands of others, I learned of Lennon's death from Howard on MNF in 1980.

[@dennisv8934]

This was when MNF was the highlight of the television week. It was more than just the game, it was an event. It's never been the same since.

[@TruthSurge]

back when a commentator didn't have to lick owners' boots and not offend someone with a criticism of gameplay. Howard had that weird cadence like a robot but he was really good at his craft, like him or not.

[@depaola63]

I am now 54 and remember Cosell very well with Ali & on MNF! * He was very "truculent" ( spelling??) ...yet extreme in his vernacular!! I loved the man! GREAT MEMORIES! He was lit' in "Fil'a del' phia" God bless his wife too!

[@medotorg2720]

Personally I loved the Frank/Don/Howard chemistry. Don was always around to prick Howard's bombastic balloon. At his best moments, Howard could elevate sports. At his worst, he could be imperious and judgmental. The key to enjoying Cosell was to not take him too seriously.

[@NOC1TIME]

He was one of a kind. That's for sure. Howard opened the door for the later sports talkshow hosts. With the bombastic character. Etc.

[@mharris5047]

I liked Howard Cosell. I wasn't a football fan but I liked Howard. I bet a couple of fifths of Crown Royal, a large bucket of ice, two rocks glasses and Howard and I would have had a great time together. I would hope he doesn't have one of those impairing "ear infections" at work often, though. He sounded like he was at the bottom of one fifth and half way through another that night.

[@TucumcariTimmy]

A real maverick. His innovating style changed the business.

[@WVF112469]

Howard Cosell, Turd Ferguson, Burt Reynolds and Norm Macdonald are on the Mount Rushmore of humanity. I truly believe Howard Cosell's voice command, rhythm and professionally sarcastic presentation is what brought me to Monday Nite Footbal as a child. He was never desperate sounding except maybe December 8th 1980.

[@Joaquin-227]

Magical moments with Howard, you will always be missed!

[@paulhawk8277]

I liked cosell,he was a true character...

[@mikewysko2268]

Howard and Don added so much fun & entertainment to the games. Howard had quick & sharp mind.

[@BBQFanNo1]

“Ooohh, what a blow! What a way to top it off! Forget about who the most valuable player is in the World Series! How this man has responded to pressure! Oh, what a beam on his face! How can you blame him? He’s answered the whole world!” --- Howard Cosell after Reggie Jackson hit his 3rd Home Run at Yankee Stadium in Game 6 of the World Series on October 18, 1977

[@sdgakatbk]

Howard had a sense of humor. He played himself on an episode of the Odd Couple.

[@orbyfan]

Two episodes actually, and he was great in them. "By the way, Unger, your apartment is decorated in questionable taste."

[@jamesanthony5681]

I remember Howard interviewing Sammy Davis Jr. ringside at a big Las Vegas heavyweight fight in the mid '70's, and asking Davis "Well Sammy, how do you see this fight?" "With my one good eye," replied Davis. This was one of the few times that Cosell was silent.

[@rascalferret]

Cosell, The Wide World Of Sports, and all else. As far as I'm concerned, the 70's WAS football on TV. At this point in time, I have one TV and it hasn't flickered in 6yrs...

[@MerkinMuffly]

I loved Howard, no apologies for players like Al Michaels.

[@antonioacevedo5200]

Howard Cosell was a genius.

[@tomshales8294]

Antonio Wrestling

[@pigdroppings]

Cossell....fake hair...fake name....but told it like it is????????

[@stephen1170]

​@@pigdroppings Sure thing Pigshit. Look the man up...then fuck off

[@j.j.s.6736]

The greatest trio ever put together and I saw it all including the very first MNF game in 1970. Vietnam was coming to an end thank God.

[@vincentjjcurley]

Gotta love Howard. His voice ended up becoming the epitome of Sports...who would ever realise that....I miss him...

[@senrom2273]

He was the best ever. I was allowed to stay up and watch those halftime highlights, then sent to bed. His verbal duels with Dandy Don and quips during blowouts made MNF the best game every week.

[@tread_well_frank2772]

Howard looks like "the Count" from the old Sesame street shows

[@robertdesi6368]

tread_well _frank lol

[@hughbetcha436]

tread_well _frank was that a Brooklyn accent or Queens?

[@ghettowizard378]

tread_well _frank Six, Six, bats!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!🎃🎃🎃

[@Piaseczno1]

You are right. I knew he resembled some animation, I just couldn't remember the character. Yes, the count.

[@jaysilverheals4445]

he looks like a cross between pee wee herman and dracula.

[@tmrezzek5728]

Howard Cosell was an entertainer, first and foremost. Monday Night Football and MLB games were always a hoot or a near-riot with Cosell at the helm; he could improvise and his language had that wonderful, distinct cadence. I think his personality is best summed up in the 1971 movie 'Bananas' where he plays himself (barging his way through a crowd: "Ex-cuse me! A-mer-i-can television! Coming through here! EX-CUSE ME!")

[@depaola63]

I LOVED THE MAN!

[@WhiteLightning108]

Howard was mnf.period. Down goes frazier. Down goes frazier.

[@manofiske3318]

Fray-jah

[@rmtl3140]

A friend of the family, Ray Flarity, was being inducted into the Hall of Fame as the Redskins coach. Howard Cosell was on MNF giving the list of the inductees, and used the phrase 'my good friend, Ray Flarity'. We asked Ray later how he knew Cosell, and he laughed and said he had never met the man. Gotta love Howard!

[@MrReymoclif714]

Professional journalism=Taking liberties.

[@firefightergoggie]

I'm old enough to remember him and I always loved MNF because of his colorful input. Let's be serious... Howard was Monday Night Football. Then we find out years later that he was a terrific guy and his colleagues and family loved him. Can't argue with that. Muhammad Ali thought the world of him.

[@staunchx]

Muhammad Ali & Howard Cosell both had the gift of gab. In that regard, they must have recognized a kindred spirit in each other.

[@stevefowler2112]

As an old Dolphins fan I always loved Howard...he always showered the Dolphins with affectionate praise...I can still hear the MNF theme music playing with Howard saying "The Miami Football Dolphins...coached by the legendary Don Shula...the winningest coach in NFL history"

[@RadicalCaveman]

But in this video, he said he wouldn't go to Miami!

[@jimvet5975]

RIP Howard, I loved hearing the guy go off only in how he could, he made more trouble for him self. He was really hard to take at times. Ether you liked the guy or hated him like wise was how the Monday night games went down at times. I was upset when Don Meredith was replaced, days gone by, & this season in time will pass as all the others before.

[@kelvinkloud]

great moments were always elevated by cosell.... he had a real knack in framing a moment & injecting it w/ compressed energy & drama. no one better to listen to with boxing & not bad w/ the nfl. I also admired him not being pc.

[@josephcostello695]

howard was monday night football. never the same after he was fired. he made it fun.

[@beyondspace3736]

correct , they didn't like him being better than the game

[@RadicalCaveman]

joseph costello, I always hated him on that show. After he left, I missed him.

[@charlesmousseau6715]

A drunk Howard Cosell was at least 150-200% of any modern commentator. The problem with being better than everyone 99/100 times is that the 1/100 that you're inferior to the plebs, they attack you like a pack of wolves ravening over the last steak in Texas.

[@senrom2273]

Yup, when he was gone I got a couple more hours' sleep.

[@88napolitano]

You are so right.

[@MrReymoclif714]

He WAS excellent at the Highlights!

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

I miss Howard. He told it like it was.

[@lilspliffster88]

Howard cossel and john Lennon two legend

[@navysealsliedtheyneverburi430]

Lennon's "death" looks like another one of many they faked. I don't respond to ad hominem attacks. And I don't respond to govt trolls who post comments while pretending to be a civilian. And they are assigned to these type of vids with this type of subject matter.

[@dallasherring1092]

John Lennon was so nice and gracious. What a sad thing to lose him that way....

[@richardweiler3966]

Even if Cosell was a bit under the influence, he was a far better, more entertaining broadcaster than 95% of his peers. A quarter century after his passing, Cosell remains a bigger name than any of today's vanilla sports announcers.

[@easyaspi1177]

We NEED another Howard Cosell!

[@ericdreizen1463]

Would u be happy w/ someone wearing a Cosell mask? Huh?

[@michaelwalton4017]

I only watched MNF just to hear Howard do the halftime highlights.

[@chrisbuck1695]

Michael Walton I agree I get chills just thinking about it along with the dramatic background music

[@tombstone1111]

A lot better than that fucking blow hard Chris Berman doing them. I wish they'd fire his loud mouth.

[@dmzabo3914]

Remember this was way before ESPN came along and politicized everything under the moon. MNF was the only game in town on the weekday and that’s what made it so special.

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Back then the halfitime highlights were the first time you could see film from the other games around the country. Totally different erea now.

[@SKITZALOT]

What I remember about Howard Cosell was how determination, perseverance and dedication in his commentaries won football games.

[@acegibson9533]

I loved Howard Cosell, he was awesome !!!

[@redfoxx3138]

TO THE COSELL FAMILY DIDNT NO HIM BEFORE MY TIME BUT LOOKING AT ALOT OF HIS CLIPS HE WAS brilliant MAN AND I LOVE THAT ABOUT HIM FOR WHO HE WAS AND HIM AND ALI MAN THEY WERE GREAT TOGETHER THERE FRIENDSHIP WAS SO REAL UNBREAKABLE I LOVE WATCHING THEM BOTH THEY ARE MISS BUT THEY ARE IN Heaven together still acting up God bless them both two greats of all time Haward and Ali two champs

[@kevinkenneally1871]

He was an effective commentator. Chris Collingsworth needs to watch Howard and take notes...

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

collinsworth couldnt carry howards dirty cracked shot glass. collinsworth is a sjw in disguise.

[@user-sl9ft1gi9c]

Missed alot by many

[@Mario-cv5el]

Chris Collinsworth looks like a vantriliquist dummy

[@deyb.ng.morobeats]

"Confusion...despair...defeat" 😅

[@noelnewlon]

Not once did I ever dislike Howard Cosell. I loved the guy!

[@bobboberson2024]

NOBODY will ever do the halftime recaps as good as Howard. So entertaining. It shows you don't need ten guys to do a frickin' football game.

[@turanga35]

Back in the good old days, you could go on the air drunk and light up a cigarette😂

[@ItalianCowboy111]

I think he was a genius, the man is a legend.....”how many people can become that” when they said during the video people either loved Howard, or they hated Howard... there is no in between.... The first thing I thought of was the Dallas Cowboys..... A perfect analogy,people either love them or they loathe them.... but there is no in between.

[@dburns8381]

Howie Cosell was an esoteric exercise in atmospheric virtuosity. I liked him.

[@KratostheThird]

This is a clip of the 1999 TV Movie Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is. My dad hated Howard, but there’s no denying this man stood out. Sports commentators today are boring.

[@1O1Matthew232]

Howard Cosell truly was ahead of his time. His extensive vocabulary and 'tell it as it is' was brilliant, unmatched to this day.

[@StephenBaylor-kl8wx]

Howard Cosell had an incredible sports memory he was sharp abrasive and anecdotally entertaining this is howard cosell speaking of sports brilliant man

[@rcsutter]

Howard was the guy everyone loved to hate, although not in a mean way, like we do now. I remember someone came up with the idea of making foam "bricks" you could throw at the TV when Howard was talking. They sold 'em at Walgreens right next to the Chia Pets, no kidding. But he made MNF fun to watch, just to see what he'd say. Frank, Don and Howard had a pretty good chemistry for a while, I liked that period of MNF.

[@dewerbylhserf]

I went to a billy Martin roast at Harrah's Casino, I stood 10 ft from Howard Cosell who was in a wheelchair because he was so drunk his wife was pushing. I remember Mickey Mantle laughing at him.

[@ASTONVILLIN42]

Thats is priceless thanks for sharing your memory

[@beyondspace3736]

howard the legend , howard the great ., so was WC fields the actor he came on set always drunk and did his acting in a movie

[@jeffreyt.steptoe5306]

He may have been drunk as a skunk, but at least he got the score right(LOL).

[@medicatedmenorah]

I’m watching Match Game 78 and wanted to know why they mention him so much. This is hilarious. We all have had a little too much at one point 😂

[@brandonchabner6006]

Nobody will ever do Halftime like Howard....

[@cesarbeltran6505]

Brandon Chabner. No script bunch of haters giifford Fucken adulterer dandy. Don was a drunk al michaels weirdo he sucks

[@humanforfreedom9583]

A real life genuine nice Jew and fantastic human being. It's a rareity but he was actually the real thing

[@spongebobcancerpants2351]

Humanforfreedom 95 lol, nice jews are hard to come by

[@chrisbuck1695]

Monday Night Football was the absolute best then , the 3 guys represented a great cross section of the American male, the good old boy, the quiet business like male, and the obnoxious know it all jew. It made for great entertainment and I would never miss the half-time with Howard, he was brilliant and it wasn't the same after. This also was football at it's peak.

[@colderbeer]

That stunt where all those guys fired guns at the TVs when Cosell's image appeared on screen was fucking hilarious.....ha ha ha ha.......

[@mrlaw711]

Al Michaels could never even hold Cosell's Vodka bottle. Gifford. Dandy Don...their ego could handle Howard. The owners can thank God for Howard.

[@markusantonious8192]

Howard Cosell was a truly eloquent man; a bona fide wordsmith and orator.

[@brycewilson1909]

my dad always talks about howard when we talk about the NFL

[@scottbaker4534]

It's interesting that you titled this the way you did. I think if people click on this to see him "drunk and pugnacious" they will get something they didn't expect, if they have a heart, which is a better sense of the man and who he was, maybe to an extent the try to learn more. He was an amazing journalist and a fine American. I thought to ask you to change the title, but I think it might be better to trick people that might still have that undeserved loathing in their hearts into seeing him as human.

[@MerkinMuffly]

A lot of broadcasters back then were loaded like Pat Summerall

[@JuanDiaz-mv1lg]

MerkinMuffly Harry Carey was often loaded during Cubs games, he had a difficult time pronouncing half the Cubs player's last names!

[@jamiemcvay4053]

MerkinMuffly hI LOVED PAT SUMMERALL

[@1burnman]

MerkinMuffly that's true

[@douglaswilke8582]

Pat Summerall's quote:" We're not here for a long time.Might as well be here for a good time."...and "I have a new liver. Let's try it out."

[@mharris5047]

@@JuanDiaz-mv1lg Back in the 60's and 70's half of the people at work were loaded. I thought nothing of having 3-5 stiff ones with lunch and another 3-5 at dinner if I had to work late. I also kept a bottle of whiskey in my office, I would have a few more on occasion. I guess I taught taxation well, my dean always gave me stellar reviews and I always got a nice raise with it but at 9pm I was probably blowing close to a .08% or .10% BAC (which was legal back then, Michigan's (USA) BAC limit was a .15% and the offense was a civil infraction with a $5 fine, Ontario (Canada) was similar). I drove back home like that thousands of times and the only time I crashed my car I was stone cold sober. I would really get loaded while grading final exams at home, I had a fifth of whiskey, a bucket of ice, a rocks glass, my answer key (for the questions that required one) and my stack of exams and I would grade those things until I was done.

[@mook9708]

So Howard had a few So did dandy Don Howard was an icon and did so much for Ali... MNF was great back in the day

[@eric21200]

"Their won't...W. O. N. ' T! 😅

[@88napolitano]

Howard was a fucking legend! You had to see or hear him. Very intelligent man.

[@huflungdung8252]

"CONFUSION DESPAIR DEFEAT!"

[@mikeholdcraft5332]

loved the man

[@hoochikooch]

Loved the halftime highlights!

[@2020-g8s]

RIP John, Don, Frank, & Howard

[@deano.7533]

My favorite memory of Cosell was a Monday Night Football broadcast of a seriously boring game that was just one low-light (as opposed to highlight) after another. I think it was late in the 4th quarter when the camera was panning around the stadium of mostly empty seats during a timeout. There was this lone guy up in the cheap seats sitting there with this seriously bored and disgusted look on his face. The camera zoomed in on the guy and he could see the camera pointing at him. So he flipped off the camera on live television. Without missing a beat Cosell remarked as only he could... *_Well I guess that means we're number 1."_* It was a classic live television moment back in the day when television wasn't as obviously evil and demonic like it is today. :-I

[@orbyfan]

Just before the 2-hour 56-minute mark: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWSpq6qJe5KSfbc

[@deano.7533]

@@orbyfan --- It's funny how memories can turn into something that didn't happen. I could have sworn that it was Cosell that said it... But the video shows that it was Dandy Don Meredith. Thanks for your reply. Take care. sincerely, Dean O. :-I

[@tomwalsh63]

‘I am more in the bag than the Philadelphia Eagles first half’

[@douglasreynolds9091]

I spoke with Curly Culp earlier today.....

[@SuperOmnicronsj44]

@3:24 who could’ve known Monday Night Football would’ve broke the news of John Lennon’s assassination.... 🙁

[@markherring3513]

"If we see it we gotta say it."

[@amandalively1]

He was fun!

[@glennevans5824]

They were a crazy cast....lots of fun....expecting the sarcasm the barbs.....good old days

[@bobdudeface570]

I was born in 70', but remember Cosell well.

[@willythewave]

I don`t know about football but Howard Cosell was the best boxing commentator ever!

[@blackhawkswincup2010]

Game 6, 1981 World Series, Dodgers @ Yankees, Keith Jackson on play-by-play, the Toupee on color. Cosell was 3 sheets from the get-go, and at one point asked Jackson, "Are you still dating Dorothy Hamill?" After a very awkward silence, Jackson bites out a very terse "No!"

[@davidhickey4836]

I always liked Howard..My uncles would turn the tv down and listen to the game on the radio..Grandpa hated him too..lol

[@imannonymous7707]

Made me shutter to see lennon in 70....ten years later almost to the day....howard was the first confirmation that john had been shot down in cold blood

[@maninthewilderness3208]

Howard was the best.

[@tomthx5804]

These sick clowns they have on the pre game shows now disgust me

[@ssimon64]

Football was so much better back then compared to the bullshit penalty fest we have nowdays

[@chucktouchton398]

Don Ohlmeyer fired Norm Macdonald. Screw him for that.

[@obeythelaw5504]

I miss Howard. Those were the days.

[@NolanRoberge]

"The original Beatles"

[@FerdinandCesarano]

Howard was a super talent, and was always prepared and well-informed. He was a person of towering intellect and, more important, of great integrity. While he was absurdly oversensitive to criticism that he should have just shrugged off, he was absolutely correct in his conviction that he was far more intelligent than the sportswriters who lobbed cheap shots at him. So one can appreciate his sense of annoyance on the matter. In the end, Cosell was a giant.

[@AlienAirMusic]

Cosell vs the press = Godzilla vs Rodan. Both push each other off the cliff and be out of our misery.

[@sam21skin]

How have I never healed of this guy? What a hoot!

[@Mike1614YT]

Howards recaps of Sunday's games on MNF were epic.

[@markherring3513]

Seems like Howard Cosell was the Howard Stern of sports commentaries...I.E. went against the grain and called out everyone from co workers, owners, players and fans.

[@mattpurvis927]

Ah this is nothing - Bernie Kosar is like this every broadcast.

[@RadicalCaveman]

That was a PERFECT summary of what Howard Cosell was like.

[@MisterMasterShafter1]

MNF now is like watching and listening to paint dry, compared to what it was in those days.

[@navysealsliedtheyneverburi430]

Think back to the 9/11 2018 MNF broadcast when ESPN's Suzy Kolber blamed the 9/11 false flag operation on the alleged 19 Saudi's who wielded plastic box cutters. What would have Cosell said? Cosell was a Major in the Army so he might have gone along with Suzy.

[@slipnorris5882]

tv production was superior compared to today

[@Sarah.Riedel]

I will forever picture Howard Cosell as the turkey from Animalympics. THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS 😂

[@BBQFanNo1]

Cosell was Monday Night Football. People hate him but he wasn't afraid to "Tell It Like It Is" Yes Cosell never was what society calls "Politically Correct" in his Sports and Entertainment Announcing. There was no in between with Howard Cosell. People either loved him or hated him.