John Lennon shot 12-8-80 Howard Cosell tells the world twice John Lennon was dead.

John Lennon was announced dead by Howard Cosell on a Monday Night Football game . Miami Dolphins vs the Patriots... First time ever we bring you the TWO times Howard told the world John was DEAD...Brought to you by Tom LaPorte, Top Line Productions TLP

[@dustinkaglic4826]

Only Howard Cosell can make a death announcement sound like a failed 3rd down and long.

[@newmanoutdoors1564]

Good one

[@5ledan]

Well done

[@oneandownlee68]

Yep! 👍

[@vleldaddio210]

F

[@glamazon6172]

In the football game off life, it could be considered a failed 3rd and long.

[@Shambles27]

The way he said "Dead on arrival" made it sound like he was talking about a failed play, his voice is just built for sportscasting

[@cristianjimenez1955]

Steve Padilla nice profile pic homie. Where u sit?

[@haramboi7784]

He’s trying to keep calm and composed

[@swmita]

Yeah and after he said "dead on arrival" I was expecting him to say that The Beatles now have to punt.

[@AllPileup]

1:02 "dead on arrival" Auto CC: *[APPLAUSE]*

[@fynkozari9271]

I wanna visit America one day, but Im scared of all the shootings and killings.

[@Keighron34]

That "Dead... On... Arrival" gives me chills everytime

[@kiuderx]

Me too. So haunting.

[@jackbrown4120]

How often do you watch it?

[@lilybond6485]

Yeah. This gave me chills hearing it again. Decades later.

[@lolabratton7182]

That is how murder can happen sometimes that why I always live my everyday like it could be my last day and I pray for God to let me live longer because of my children and my Grandchildren also.

[@stevedrums1675]

I was ten and was shocked. My sister was sixteen and was horrified. My brother was 22 and was inconsolable.

[@jeff-kf5oe]

He handled it like a pro, and Lennon was a friend of his. I miss Howard, one of a kind.

[@LemurJackson]

Lennon was a friend of mine too, we used to play COD on PS2 all the time. RIP homie

[@forhim9861]

no, he handled it like a pompous ass.

[@MrSatyre1]

John and Howard were friends? In what alternate universe?

[@theecharmingbilly]

Well, considering John Lennin himself was a pompous ass and total creep, I guess Howard called it perfectly.

[@forhim9861]

@@theecharmingbilly yeah but we are talking about the anouncement of someone's death, I think it was.very classless..

If anyone is wondering, the dolphins won...

[@SlimbyTheSillyGoose]

Stephen A thanks silly goose

[@-twss-7750]

Stephen A lol dolphins have went undefeated

[@antigonish63]

Absolutely nobody was wondering.

@@antigonish63 Awww, poor baby... Don't let feelings affect you so much. 😂

[@mloading5770]

🐬🐬🐬🐬

[@yoshikagekira4471]

Howard Cosell really just does have the football announcer voice.

[@loaf7925]

Yoshikage Kira My stand Killer Queen has already touched this comment section

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

Howard Cosell was a pompous ass.

[@midniteblue3313]

He was bad at announcing boxing matches either.

[@frizzttymto]

How does he have sex bro

[@sandrasharp2934]

"He could go... ALL.. THE.. WAY!!!

[@Dex000x]

I was 10 years old, watching this live with my dad, who'd been a Marine in Vietnam. When Cosell announced the news, my dad was silent for a moment then made a sound like someone had kicked him in the chest. It was the first and only time I'd ever seen him cry.

[@fingersmcoy]

why. why on earth would he be hurt because of one guy dying

[@paulmccharmly9]

@@fingersmcoy if your not a Beatle fan or John Lennon fan you wouldn’t understand. John Lennon is one of the greatest musicians to ever live.

[@fingersmcoy]

@@paulmccharmly9 I think his music is boring and dull. But that doesn't matter. I didn't know the guy

[@jesses5463]

That's racist as hell for him to be sad when a privileged white male died.

[@waynek3366]

​@@fingersmcoy Gen Z 😂😂😂😂

[@robpelick7460]

I was watching that night. I also remember Cosell, saying to no one in particular: "Why would anyone want to shoot John Lennon?"

[@xaviersanchez2270]

Damn

[@namesameasu]

Howard Cosell interviewed Lennon a few times and they seemed to share a mutual respect. I can identify with what I perceive as Cosell's disgust when he says "shot twice in the back." It's like hearing the news of Lennon's death from one of his friends. I don't tear up very often, but watching this always sets off the water works -- even if I just watched it just a second ago. Such a waste of human life and artistic creativity. It marked the end of perhaps the must fertile era of popular music, announced during the backdrop of a football game.

[@southsideman4891]

Wow....they should have had that too

[@finchborat]

My mom had the exact same thought at the time. She answered her own question by saying "a crazy person."

[@phaxdre]

Jealousy

[@mtbeliever5833]

Why is this all of a sudden showing up on all our YT feeds? Bizarre.

[@YnkBlu]

@Jalapeno Black And a video of how to properly seal a coffin in a burial vault... which of course I will watch.

[@rattyeely]

We're approaching the anniversary of John Lennon's death

[@NRV0]

@@graymc1959 I swear I read that as *Black* government pushes things to appear lmao! 🤣🤣🤣

[@JB-gd2tv]

Spies 👀

[@DupontandLowesWarrior]

To honor an icon

[@Boers_]

WHEN JOHN SMITH’S STATS POPPED UP AS HE SAID JOHN LENNON I THOUGHT IT WAS LENNON’S STATS

[@NickB-md1oy]

Boers best comment 😂😂

[@blacknovemberkitty4180]

Bro I can relate

[@happycalcium]

Boers STATUS - RETIRED

[@misterclean7570]

@@happycalcium YARDS : -20

[@jaredfeithen6307]

stop yelling!

[@academyofshem]

Forty years ago today. What a depressing day that was...

[@simon-di7xt]

Same length as his life

[@srujan00]

Yeah that really ruined the Patriots' season. Cost them the division title.

[@eliothorowitz5627]

I was 21 and still at my parents place, downstairs in my bedroom, Dad yelled for me to come upstairs and there was an urgency in his voice. He told me that Howard Cosell had announced that John Lennon had been killed. Then my folks said the color had been drained from my face. Knowing how I loved The Beatles and John in particular, they both asked if I was okay and I lied that I was. Almost immediately, my phone rang, with friends calling. I had to take it off the hook so I could listen to the radio and cry my heart out. Years later, I heard Cosell's announcement and while it sent chills down my spine, I must say he was eloquent and respectful, a real mensch.

[@reggiethecommenter9137]

I can’t even imagine getting the news this way. “Wait, what!?!”

[@johnswaim3919]

Yes, woefully inappropriate of old howard. Glad he is long gone. What a twit.

[@alanoconnor371]

@@johnswaim3919 well, he didn't want to do it, but he was told to announce it

[@toms.8833]

SeaDub II this was a very big deal at the time

[@facubozzi7395]

@@toms.8833 still is

[@jordandenny6875]

@Frank Bartolone back then how did you react?

[@alexm6474]

i’ll see y’all in 9 years when this gets recommended again

[@andrewkappler5503]

U to bro

[@noire2438]

Alex M don’t forget about me bro

[@alexm6474]

NOiRE LHB i gotchu

[@alexm6474]

Mr. Fahrenheit you too

[@zeropointnineninenine4951]

I'll see you in nine videos when you make this same damn comment

[@TheBigScat]

I was watching this live. I was 17 at the time, and it was devastating. Watching it today, 40 years later, I was almost overcome.The Beatles were always my favorites, and I never gave up the hope that someday they'd record together again. And on this evening, everything was wiped away in an instant. No undo buttons back then. And then we lost Bob Marley a year later. Perhaps the most important voices in their respective genres.

[@saidboogeron-the-air9525]

..... the reason we lost Marley is because he was murdered, also.....A victim of the C.I.A.'s 'black messiah' hitlist.....the cancer Marley died from was injected into him by force as a bio-weapon,.....like ricin.

[@luadinverno7778]

Dam.i was born a year later

[@bufnyfan1]

I always wondered if people in the Orange Bowl were listening to the radio and heard the news and how the news spread around the stadium--I wonder if the public address announcer in the stadium also announced it

[@tiffaniegreen1816]

@@luadinverno7778 I was born a year before.

[@imannonymous7707]

End handgun violence now

[@LarryGonzalez00]

I was 15 and had just gotten home from confirmation class. My folks were watching MNF and called me to come watch when Cosell made the first announcement. It was 43 years ago to the day and it still stings like a mother. 43 years gone but never to be forgotten. We miss you John (and George, too).

[@taco8895]

“ Dead. On. Arrival.”

[@IsraelCountryCube]

*HHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMM* yeah idgaf

[@DocksOfFoxes]

@@IsraelCountryCube Who cares

[@tonyadenton9196]

That's how the older generation talked back then, stern, straight to the point, i remember my liberal sister waking me and Mom up saying that her and my brother where watching this ballgame and they said John Lennon had been shot and died. It was a sad thing terrible thing and I'm not liberal by any means. ✌💔🎼🎶🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@AllPileup]

1:02 "dead on arrival" Auto CC: *[APPLAUSE]*

[@tonyadenton9196]

@@AllPileup in other words "DOA" another cool phrase the older generation had. New generation sucks period•

[@Fogmaster1990]

The announcer made it sound like John Lennon was in the game or something.

[@kerrymei6822]

"The announcer" is freaking Howard cosell. Know more than things that happened under 5 years ago!

[@gregor3749]

@@kerrymei6822 who the fook?

[@kerrymei6822]

@Kaede let's say I do..that doesn't change your lack of knowledge of american culture that precedes the advent of Facebook.

[@kerrymei6822]

@Kaede so Alexander the great is equal to famous SPORTS announcers who many comedians imitated, who interviewed and covered people alive today! Hello? The man covered multiple sports . including Mohammad Ali. And George for man. I know people from a generation behind me, why can't u?

[@delduvall]

Kerry Mei Americans think Europe is a country, you’re not known for your knowledge.

[@donvid8969]

"Remember, this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An *unspeakable tragedy has just occurred where--*"

[@elceenomoun8115]

The following day, a minute of radio silence was held worldwide. I was in college at the time. The instructor stopped the lecture for the full minute. Everyone, teachers and students were crying so hard that most classes just dismissed everyone. It was really emotional.

[@JerichoMile4]

What fine college did you attend ??

[@patrickmorgan4006]

I went about my day as usual. I was a Beatles fan but I'd never met any of them. Not like a family member or close friend had died. Can't understand why people get so emotional about someone they had never met.

[@erestube]

I had forgotten all about that moment of silence. I was "listening" as well.

[@350ZEASZE]

Weird.

[@susanborkenhagen58]

I was coming out of the shower at Parsons School of Design and the news broke. The line at the hallway payphone was already 30 people long. I was a huge Beatles fan and everyone was concerned about me. I chose to wear a pretty outfit as I sat in my dorm, silent. I could not even consider taking the subway uptown to The Dakota. I had to be by myself. After that I wore all black for a month, even at Christmas.

[@trevwad8674]

Fan: watches the game Howard: John Lennon was shot and killed Fan: *W H A T T H E F U C K*

[@hellonwheels9149]

This style of comment is gay.

[@michaelgaynor6866]

@@hellonwheels9149 ,WHAT?

[@DrunkenSlob]

Tim Watson I agree it’s stale now and I personally never thought it wasn’t gay

[@bassage13]

@@DrunkenSlob Almost EVERY goddamn KZbin video is infected with those stupid comments, the other one I can't stand is starting the sentence with "When." These people are sheep that need to imitate every trend they see.

[@DrunkenSlob]

bassage13 exactly. I don’t even see the satisfaction in getting all of those likes for posting something unoriginal and overused it seems too easy and cheap

[@holyreality02]

i can't imagine the shock ppl must've felt to just randomly hear this news in the middle of a football game.

[@musclehamster4120]

Neither did I until 2 days ago with Kobe.

[@currankerman2349]

@James Y it’s not for you to call . Both were profoundly significant people who touched the hearts of many .

[@currankerman2349]

Eerie and tragically poetic in a almost cinematic way that the player that happened to be in close up was called John too and he looks straight at the camera during Howard’s anouncmemt . One John in the prime and heat of his life . Another sadly beyond the end of his .

[@ST-xg3gy]

Yes

[@taotefling]

It was quite a shock. I was a fifth grader at the time watching the game (at a reasonable hour in the Pacific Time Zone). My best friend was a huge Beatles fan. I felt very sad and remember when he arrived in class the following day. Everyone felt bad for him.

[@ernestodelaserna9494]

Watched this when it happened and knew something was up when Howard said "this is just a football game", which really sounded weird coming from him since he hyped sporting events more than anyone back then. Lennon had just recorded a new album for the first time in several years. I remember breaking the news to my parents by saying "there won't be any Beatles reunions now". In the next six months the President and the Pope were both shot. This was a particularly dangerous time to be a famous, high profile person.

[@erestube]

Bob Marley.

[@kayakdog121]

I was driving a taxi when I heard the news over the radio. Me and my passenger just sat in stunned silence, occasionally glancing at each other in the rear view mirror as if we both knew that there could be no words to express what we were feeling.

[@1401minstrel]

I was watching that night. Never in a million years would I have imagined that John Lennon would be murdered, and that I would learn of his death from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. Like millions of fans, I burst into tears. I felt like I'd personally been robbed of most of my childhood. Of course I grieved for his family, but I was a member of John Lennon's larger family, which was the whole world.

[@michaelgaynor6866]

1401minsrel* you weren't alone! IMAGINE!♥️John Lennon ,Earth is sending Love up November 23 2019

[@patrickmorgan4006]

By 1980 I had received news of the deaths of several people that I actually knew personally. A cousin killed in a war, a couple of drug overdoses, car accidents, and at least one murder. Some musician being killed, no matter how famous, didn't affect me all that much. It wasn't good news, obviously, and it was surprising that he was murdered, but people die every day.

[@omnipepper3665]

Patrick Morgan damn you sure look tough bragging about how many people you know died.

[@patrickmorgan4006]

@@omnipepper3665 I wasn't bragging. You apparently aren't smart enough to get my point.

[@omnipepper3665]

Patrick Morgan kinda were

[@miniredsatan]

I was watching this game as a kid arguing with my mom to stay up late when they annpunced this. My mom started crying. I went to bed.

[@CyclonicDeath]

Yeah dude she prob got screwed by your dad listening to hey jude

[@estellaruiz3125]

K. Benzema Is God not that that’s a bad thing...

[@estellaruiz3125]

K. Benzema Is God and ironically is Paul’s song rather than johns.

[@MrDanty64]

annpunced....hmmm. Add an h in there and there's something that works? annpunched this. Anna punched. annapunched this. Hmmm.

[@frankhornby6873]

K. Benzema Is God ......sad bastard....

[@turk5832]

I was in a bar on LI watching the game. As soon as Cosell made the announcement, I hopped in my car and drove to the Dakota. By the time I got there, there were thousands in tears, holding candles and singing his songs. Incredibly sad. 😔

[@jeaustardeau5718]

40 years ago and still as sad and shocking to hear. Wow. An unspeakable tragedy, indeed. RIP John Lennon. 😔

[@MarkHarrison733]

He funded terrorism.

[@jesselockhart1230]

RIP Howard, Don, and Frank

[@finn4375]

Jesse Lockhart Ringo. LIP!

[@Brettsburg20]

Your right Jesse, never thought of it, all 3 announcers are gone now.

[@evangelaterpak731]

Actually, on this night...it was Howard, Frank, and Fran Tarkenton...

[@Wtahc]

rip chester

[@wakayama3188]

RIP Kelly Groucutt.

[@420Pikachu]

When he said "remember this is just a football game..." I felt that

[@slapshot68]

U knew things weren’t good wen u hear that

[@giarichards8379]

Sadly, the most iconic call in any sports game ever.

[@jamessouza7256]

I remember watching that game with my father and brother. We are from New England, and we just heard Howard Cossel announce the news of John Lennon's tragic death. We watched the news for hours after the game. 🙏Peace and love!

[@johnkon8346]

I can't even imagine the utter shock of hearing this live. Lennon was one of the most famous people in the world. Beloved by hundreds of millions around the globe.

[@musclehamster4120]

I could not either. That was until yesterday when it was Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash. My heart dropped into my stomach, and I was in utter shock for hours. I really couldnt believe it. I heard from several that that is exactly what Lennon's death was like.

[@22_cincatt]

It made me sick to my stomach when I heard this news live watching the game. I wish I could forget it, but I know I never will.

[@melissa9375]

I was watching the game in the living room when the phone rang in the kitchen. No cells, of course, so I got up and went to answer it. So... in one ear, my older brother - who had introduced me to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan on February 9, 1964 - was saying, "John's dead" while my husband came running into the kitchen saying, "Howard Cosell just said John Lennon's been killed." At the same time. I hung up and dialed the number to the Denver Post - we had an ad in the paper and had the phone number on a notepad next to the phone. When the operator answered, she was crying. All I could do was ask and she said, "It's true." The phone kept ringing with our friends and my family calling, it truly was a death in the family. Later that night, my husband and I couldn't think of what to do, but needed to do... something, so we drove to the chapel on our university campus where we had gotten married, expecting it to be empty, but of course, it was full. Finally, someone thought to go knock on the door of the university chaplain who came over right away. He opened the sacristy and found some small candles for us all to hold and then said Psalm 23 (Yea, though I walk...), the Lord's Prayer and talked for about 3 minutes about John and his music, said a prayer for John's family - his sons and the aunt who raised him and his 'Beatle brothers' (I remember that so well). It was just perfect for the moment. To be honest, the ten minutes of silence up at Red Rocks (where they had played in 1964) wasn't as impactful because people were just wandering around and didn't know what to do - some tried to sing, someone had brought a recorder, but the amp didn't work, so no one could hear it. It was bitterly cold and windy. I'll remember the spontaneous gathering at the university chapel around midnight.

[@VinnyDrysdale]

@@22_cincatt I was eating a ham sandwich when when Cosell made the initial announcement that he had been shot. Needless to say, I lost my appetite. I was 17 and had been a huge Beatles fan ever since I could remember. In the year preceding his death, I had really gotten into John's solo work, especially Plastic Ono Band, which made his murder even more painful.

[@ots1634]

@@musclehamster4120 no offense but lennon is bigger

[@markbmt]

I wasn't watching the game. I was sitting outside on my car in front of my friend Brian's house in Paramus. We were smoking cigarettes and having a beer while listening to music. I don't remember the song that was playing. It was interrupted with the news of John Lennon being shot and killed. It was devastating.

[@juannauj9631]

is that kind of exact moment that you´re always remember, such a lost for the world, i always wonder about what lennon will be doing today...

[@geraldobrien7323]

If you were listening to wplj (which was "album oriented rock" at that time), they were playing Killer Queen by Queen when that song was interrupted to make the announcement. I didn't hear it. My next door neighbor told me about it the next day. I was already asleep by that time (it was about 11:00 PM).

[@prlexicon]

Omg ur friends name is brian like brian may and your last name is taylor like roger Taylor :0

[@cosmicrealm1567]

@@geraldobrien7323 Dang u have quite the memory. kinda creepy how it was "killer queen" that was playing

[@kilgoretrout6136]

@@geraldobrien7323 I learned about it in the morning too. I was in 10th grade.

[@pretzeltime3900]

I was in the US Army AIT and that very moment our Drill Sergeants stopped what they were doing to tell us that someone just killed John Lennon. That is something you just don’t forget.

[@muirmustangsmediatv9464]

I don’t remember much anymore but I remember watching this game with one of my older brothers in his room on his black and white tv. My other bro, who was a big Beatles fan (still is), just hopped into the shower after coming home from work. I yelled through the restroom door (Brother! John Lennon died!) Immediately he turned off the shower 🚿 and clothed back up to see the news on tv. Sorry about the TMI but that’s how detailed my memory is of this day 40 years ago. Lord have mercy. My other

[@fredererpower]

This might be one of the times that people cared less about the football game even though they are watching it. RIP John Lennon

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@anonymousviewer4750]

I doubt it. Nothing will shake a true football fan.

[@fastfootedone]

well he said God is dead and allegedly didn't believe in an afterlife, so that's a wrap.

[@jesses5463]

​@@fastfootedone so you're saying he's right. I guess what they say is true. A privileged white males life truly doesn't matter 😅. One less racist in this world. Good riddance!

[@battleborn8658]

@@anonymousviewer4750 Except for Colin Kneeling Crappernik.

[@TralfazConstruction]

That next year, December of 2020, will be _forty years_ since the tragically sudden loss of John Lennon is stunning to me. I still remember listening to this game on an ABC affiliate FM radio station just after I had left work as though this happened only last month. I remember warming-up my new car in the cold that night. My headlights were shining on a light covering of snow and as the heater warmed the interior the 'new car smell' was in full bloom. Then I heard Howard Cosell make the announcement and it floored me. I still had a fourteen mile drive ahead of me.

[@ThePopbanks007]

Quit trying to be a writer

[@kirkcattlecompany6803]

Charlie D trump 2020 🤟🏻🤟🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@juanreza6308]

@@kirkcattlecompany6803 😬😬😬 if he doesn't get impeached

[@kirkcattlecompany6803]

Juan Reza sad part is dems just can’t see that with trump we are winning as a country

[@dscan5222]

TralfazConstruction ok boomer

[@henry6354]

The tone of the voice " dead on arrival " is incredible...40 years ago allready... 0:44

[@econhelp583]

I was living in Amherst, Massachusetts and watching this broadcast live on TV. When Howard made the announcement I could not believe it. No social media, no web, no cell phone, no email, no one to call so I just turned off the TV and waited for the next day to come and let me know if this was in fact reality. It was the most shocking TV experience I ever had.

[@conner-manradio]

You know it’s big when the sports announcers have to interrupt the game to tell you something.

[@chipmillard5043]

The most dramatic example of that was probably involved Al Michaels prior to the scheduled Game 3 of the 1989 World Series when the 1989 Bay Area earthquake occurred...immediately prior to a game involving the two teams from the Bay Area, the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's. Michaels became the de facto news reporter on site for ABC News.

[@conner-manradio]

@@chipmillard5043 I think about that and I also think to when they had to interrupt a baseball game to announce Bin Laden’s death

[@dcscott100]

"It's hard to go back to the game after that." [ONE second pause] "Indeed, it is. Three seconds remain......"

[@zefallafez]

Hard but not impossible.

[@radiocameron]

40 years ago today. Hard to believe.

[@nickpaine]

I watched this live. My shock and grief led to another, more personal, tragedy. The announcement made me forget I had let my dog out front for what was to be a brief moment. He was hit and killed by a car. Best dog ever. I mourn both events still.

[@erestube]

Wow. Thumbs up for your dog!

[@NickCager]

Was he dead on arrival?

[@slipjones2]

Sorry for your loss.

[@nickpaine]

@@slipjones2 Thank you

[@thedarknessofpoetichumor8957]

@@NickCager 😂😂😂😂

[@MICHAELJOHNSON-zi5gy]

I remember this night like it was yesterday...I was 18 years old at the time, and a huge Beatles fan. Ironically, by the time I even knew what the Beatles were...they had been broken up for 2-3 years. My friend and I in middle school became hooked on the Beatles, and would tape radio recordings when we could. The night John died, I was in the family room with my dad and brother watching MNF, when HC told the world John had been shot and passed...my dad didn't understand why they would interrupt a "football game" to talk about a "drugged out commie" who nobody could care less about....it was at that moment I knew my dad, brother, and I would never be on the same life path...I was devastated, and my family thought I was the one with problems....what a joke

[@johnfurst8803]

I had the exact same experience Michael! Exact!

[@johnfurst8803]

Katie, I'm referring to Michael Johnson, the guy who posted on this thread, NOT Michael Jackson.

[@johnnyutah482]

Katie Stevens that was pretty stupid Katie...

[@crews-lj3ph]

Katie Stevens shut yo stupid ass up bitch

[@crews-lj3ph]

Willie Gordon STFU stupid I don't know why she bring up Michael for

[@bailinnumberguy]

Check out the kicker, John Smith who was from England, looking up at the camera right as Cosell makes the announcement. Almost like he heard it. Eerie.

[@JerichoMile4]

John Smith looking up at camera was indeed eerie !

[@misterasterisco5217]

1:05?

[@JohnSmith-kz8yo]

Also his kick was blocked. Just like the chant 'block that kick' that was heared during 'Revolution #9. Damn spooky.

[@ericdiaz7944]

A sad sidenote from this game, the Dolphins quarterback David Woodley, a talented kid who was the youngest quarterback to ever start a super bowl, would eventually die tragically of liver and kidney disease in 2003 after a long battle with alcoholism. Very sad story.

[@dethray1000]

my died from liver failure from alcoholism when i was 16--best day of my life....

[@dalebecause2467]

@@dethray1000 Who died?? Your dad?

[@kimpotter5142]

My little boy and I were at my moms waiting for my husband to get back from a recording session with a couple of his friends and we were watching a rerun of Maude, the one with John Wayne. As John Wayne walked through a door, the local news man interrupted the show and said to repeat earlier news, former Beatle, John Lennon had been murdered in New York. Man, I can't tell you how bad I wanted to cry.. it hurt so bad, having grown up with their music from 1964..I wanted to cry and was too stunned. I cried later and many times since. And listening to this tonight, I cried. God Rest his soul.

[@dalemcilwain]

I remember that announcement. I was only 9 years old and I was about to go to bed. It was about 12:12AM way past my bedtime.

[@kristopherloviska9042]

I was 14 years old and in bed, not yet asleep. My mom came upstairs to tell me.

[@jonrobichaud6332]

Back when the dolphins could beat the patriots boy times have changed

[@Seezyy]

The dolphins have best the patriots once every year for that past few years

[@blacktallsmart1914]

Seezy yeah pats usually struggle down in Miami. Probably the hardest of their division games. Case in point: Miami miracle

[@SeeingDoubIe]

Jon Robichaud they beat them in Miami 5 times in a row besides this year...

[@michaelterrell2108]

They still can. They just aren't good enough to win their division.

[@camseymour8742]

You don’t remember last year?

[@walterwhite6158]

The moment sticks in my mind. I never really got over it

[@statsrogers9297]

Was watching this live as a 13 year old.. said WTF..?!? then.. Still saying WTF 43 years later..

[@Andrew..J]

Howard: John Lennon was shot and killed Me: what kind of play is that?

[@blokejr4801]

*Team sets up in shotgun formation

[@mikey_stone06]

Bloke Jr no pistol

[@h3llboyyy407]

Quarter back throws a shotgun pass 💀

[@DYNAMiC027]

Seems kinda weird today. Al Michaels wouldn't stop commentating the game to say lil wayne got shot.. 😅🍻

[@MrDanty64]

@@Adam-de8jm Upon further review the receiver was hit in the back and down by contact. The play is dead.

[@Diskoboy1974]

Remember watching this with my dad when I was 6. I remember him having to leave the room for a minute to regain his composure. He came back about 10 minutes later looking totally defeated and didn't say much of anything the rest of the game.

[@me-yn6cr]

John was something of a regular on Monday night football broadcasts during the 70's and became pretty close with them, it must have been hell to get the news and have to tell the world in that way that someone you'd know and grown close to had died in such a way. Howard handled it well.

[@hscollier]

I grew up listening to the Beatles. When a new album was released we’d go to the record store to get it then sit around with friends listening to it over and over, talking about the songs. I was 22 and in the USAF, watching the game alone on a rare evening off in my apartment in Ft Worth, Texas when Cosell announced Lennon had been murdered. I broke down and cried harder than I had since my grandad died when I was 5. Lennon and I shared the same birthday, and I’d just heard an interview with him in October where the reporter asked him how it felt turning 40. Lennon said that he was just happy to have survived to see 40, was happy and looking forward to raising his son and enjoying a more peaceful life than the first 40 had been. It felt like I’d been shot in the chest when Howard announced that Lennon had been murdered. I called my girlfriend and was crying hard when I told her. She had never heard me that upset before and said she thought at first that a close family member had been killed. I told it felt just like that.

[@MICKEYDELFINO]

I still remember this moment. I was doing my high school biology homework to the game. It was so clear the announcement and hit me like a ton of bricks. Surreal. A devastating moment in my life only surpassed by my fathers death.

[@jymcotton9904]

what about your mother?

[@zefallafez]

John Lennon was his mother!

[@jymcotton9904]

@@zefallafez lol

[@canalesworks1247]

I had been asked by a female friend to help out her church choir, which needed an extra tenor for the Handel Hallelujah chorus that they were going to sing on Christmas eve. I was a senior in high school, and very active in the music program. I went, sang, and came home to watch Monday Night Football. There it was. The Announcement. Devastating. I owned every Beatles album, and several Lennon solo albums. A horrible night.

[@itzamia]

@MICKEYDELFINO It's like 9/11 and from what I heard the JFK assassination. Such a major event people knew where they were and what they were doing at the time. I was in High School during 9/11. My teacher put the t.v. on and I saw the North Tower on fire. I was working on a project and just glancing at the t.v. and knew there was a restaurant up there and thought it had caught on fire. And as time went on it said a small plane hit it. And then I saw a commercial size airliner hit the second one. That was the fastest 15 minutes in my life.

[@RB01.10]

RIP John. I can't believe you've been gone 35 years today.

[@phillies4100_mainsite]

+Ryan Blanche Same!

[@ekop1778]

+Ryan Blanche DONT SEEM LIKE ITS BEEN THAT LONG I WAS 10 WHEN THIS HAPPENED LIVE IN CONNECTICUT THEY PLAYED LENNON ALL DAY THE NEXT DAY ON WRCH HARTFORD,CT

[@Deadpool-dw4fk]

+Edward Koepke I live in connecitcut too

[@ekop1778]

CRUMMY STATE WE LIVE IN HUH? MALLOYS AN ASSHOLE NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE MOVING OUT

[@Deadpool-dw4fk]

Edward Koepke definitely :/ I live in torrington, you?

[@Sethanikslo]

41 years ago today. can’t believe we lost him so young. rip to one of the most influential people in modern history. ❤️

[@jakeg.7562]

I was watching the game live in college in New Hampshiire. I am from Amherst, Massachusetts so naturally I am a New England Patriot fan. Back then the Patriots used to practice in the summertime at UMass in my hometown of Amherst. As a wee kid I actually had a chance to talk with their kicker, the Englishman John Smith who was on the screen when Howard Cosell made the first announcement. It was late, like around midnight, and most of the guys in my dorm had stopped watching the game much earlier to go to bed. There were only 3 or 4 of us still watching when it was announced that John Lennon had died from gunshots. I remember feeling sick, getting up from my chair and walking a few steps before I stopped and leaned against one of the pool tables. Looking back on it, I was in a mild state of shock. My best friend and his entire family died in a plane crash over Paris on March 3, 1974. That was my first close exposure to death. And when Roberto Clemente died while delivering supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua, that hit me hard as well. And then Lennon. There have been many more since that night, but very few had the same kind of gut-wrenching impact as Cosell's announcement late at night during a non-descript Patriots game...

[@billyzimmergunn]

I'm crying.... sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come.

[@ganrice2984]

well played

[@calcunningham48]

My fav

[@chatman2a]

Razzlebathbone Who the eff do you think you are, the walrus?

[@cebollajsjsjsk]

@@chatman2a But the walrus was Paul ._.

[@gandalfstormcrow7943]

@SebasM Paul is a dead man. Miss him, miss him, miss him !!

[@bconigliaro]

Unless my memory deceives, you cut off the most resonant thing Howard said. Maybe a play after either of the two announcements. He said, "Sometimes it's hard to figure out life."

[@anthonyscott5612]

43 years ago. I was watching the game. My wife was in her 9th month of pregnancy with the first of our 4 kids. My eyes filled with tears. December 10, 2023

[@Woodstockwaslife19]

40 years ago today... where does the time go? R.I.P. John Lennon.

[@ronbarr9728]

There is no time ....only now .

[@jumpinjustin9474]

I wasn't even born yet and I feel as if I lived through this moment. RIP John.

[@richhenn2733]

Hey what's up man and you too you

[@sweetjrewing5435]

😂

[@danhobson24]

I was not yet born at that time either. I was born in 1999

[@93seronica]

I was born 12 years after this occurred

[@malikholmes5045]

The way he said D.O.A. was like he would say 4th, and, 24.... .

[@PoppysGuitar]

I will always remember exactly where I was. I was in Albany New York. It was a bleak early Decemeber night. I was 20 and with my gf in bed. We always listened to the radio and on came the announcement. I turned to her and she got she got tears in her eyes. We couldn't believe it. We were in shock.

[@watchman1178]

RIP David Woodley (Miami QB) who was from my hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.

[@ebonykaleidoscope]

I was in college watching the game on TV in the midst of first semester finals. I couldn't believe it. This is STILL one of the most unexpected and shocking things that I have ever heard come across a TV set...

[@paulSmith-te8gq]

nockanoo62 absolutely!

[@daverain1967]

Absolutely remember this, i was watching the game with my dad

[@erestube]

This is how I found out about it. I was 19 and just watching the game with my dad . . . I heard the news and went straight to my old room and cried. I turned on the radio to get the news from the music world, and they were playing Beatles songs, the majority with Paul singing! It didn't hit me fully at the time, but I had realized that the world was startlingly imperfect. The Beatle who had sung for peace was shot dead and DJs were playing Penny Lane in tribute to John because they didn't know any better. Just one more incident of the surreal in a crazy human history of the surreal.

[@colepepper43]

My dad, life long Beatles fan & life long Dolphins fan, 11 years old at the time recalls hearing this exact announcement as it occurred and running upstairs to tell his parents, also life long Beatles fans, in complete disbelief of what he had just heard.

[@DavidSaks]

I was watching the game and heard Howard make the announcement. I was called in to the radio station I worked for to broadcast the news about John, right after the announcement, throughout the night. Thank you for posting. It was a day that I'll never forget.

[@SeeingDoubIe]

Why did this come in my recommended when Juice WRLD died?

[@r3di891]

My daddi Goes meow in all girls are the same he said he felt like John Lennon

[@Al-mv7kc]

Because John Lennon died on December 8th. Juice now shares lennons death day

[@prometheustv6558]

Merrick Brunker no he died December 9.

[@r3di891]

PrometheusTV close enough I guess

[@SeeingDoubIe]

PrometheusTV nah he died December 8

[@tofilil.746]

I was 8 and I remember my family in the living room gasping all at once..I had no idea what was happening.

[@glennhubbard5008]

I was watching that night. I'll never forget that announcement.

[@tjcassidy2694]

"This is just a game." "What a strange thing for a sportscaster to say," I thought, "especially from Howard Cosell, of all people." Then he dropped the bomb. Not believing what I'd just heard, I went and turned on the radio. Up and down the dial, every station in the NYC tri-state area was playing Lennon and Beatles records. Within the hour the other tv stations had live telecasts of the crowd outside the Dakota. I had the next day off from work and school but I didn't want to go into town and join in. I don't know how long it took to get past the initial shock - it may have been an hour, it may have been a couple of days - but my first coherent thought about this was, "Excuse me? Shitstain? Yeah, you. YOU DON'T FUCKING WASTE A BEATLE!!!!!"

[@WaltGekko]

+TJ Cassidy Howard Cosell actually had a news background. Even after he became "the mouth that roared," Cosell continued for many years to host a Sunday night show on WABC Radio in New York called "Speaking of Everything," which was anything BUT a sports show (a second version of that aired on the national ABC Radio network). Many outside New York never knew that side of Cosell.

[@evangelaterpak731]

and lennon was once a guest...

[@evangelaterpak731]

on Howard Cosells radio show..

[@jimbotc2000]

Well..it IS just a game..a pretty dumb one at that lol..

[@jimbotc2000]

Yes, but their uniform was way, way better in those good old days..

[@volumecorps]

I was only six, but I remember my dad watching the game and saying "Somebody shot John Lennon?!" He and my mom just sat there stunned. It was only after she pointed him out on the Let It Be album (in heavy rotation at our house) that I saw how sad she was and how much his murder affected people.

[@shanespink9665]

No 24 hr news back then. If he didnt say this then you might not have found out until you picked up the morning paper the next day. Cosell was a legend

[@erestube]

Turn on the radio!

[@hope5360]

I missed the news that night. Woke at 6am to the radio in the kitchen playing, sharing the horrible news. As I lay there, shocked and staring at the ceiling, "I heard the news today, O boy" from A Day in the Life was eerily playing. Heartbreaking! 😢

[@bethroesch2156]

I was a senior in high school and getting ready for bed when the news broke. I cried myself to sleep. He might have been a dreamer He's not the only one ✌️💖🌎

[@basedbear1605]

Why would you cry over a communist pushing propaganda, especially one you'd never even met?

[@troliskimosko]

Based Bear also, even if he was, you can’t be stupid and deny all the incredible influence he had on the music world

[@romarssieverything9667]

@@basedbear1605 if imagine is a communist thing I will choose that because it sounds fuckin great. Yes he talked about utopia which is almost impossible to achieve but the song is called imagine for a reason.

[@basedbear1605]

@@romarssieverything9667 Way to show that your mind is easily pliable. It's called pre-programming you nimrod. What a mush mind.

[@romarssieverything9667]

@@basedbear1605 what a great way to reply. NO wonder you hate a simple man who advocated peace

[@ryanstrnad1852]

Kobe Bryant's death made me re-watch this.

[@NickB-md1oy]

Ryan Strnad kind of makes you miss all the lost idols, I definitely understand where you’re coming from. It’s like the meme with all the most beloved celebs who’ve left us, pictured together up in the clouds.

[@dharrell2000]

I remember that as a 15 year old with all of us watching the game, as soon as Howard made the announcement my mom freaked out, we switched the channel and the news stations had it as breaking news, if you tuned into the classic rock stations, they all played Beatles songs continuously, it was a terrible night 🌙 and even worse week

[@Jeff98177]

I learned about the death while helping my Dad get the Christmas decorations down from the attic. Hard to believe it was 41 years ago.

[@rpmfreak9150]

When I heard Howard Cosell say that John Lennon had been shot twice in the back and was Dead on Arrival at the hospital, it was almost like time stood still for a couple of moments" I can't express how it effected me emotionally but it was very sad .😥

[@BPCADownStateChapter]

I remember this like it was yesterday - 35 years ago I was watching this game. Shocked and stunned by what Howard Cosell said. It was just not possible. Then a few minutes later, all the local NYC news TV and Radio confirmed the impossible. Innocence was lost. The end of and era. The next day at school. All the students and teachers did was play Johns music and talk about his impact on our lives. RIP John Lennon - I think, had that murderer not taken his life. John would have made a much better impact on our world post 1980 - Give Peace A Chance - RIP John Lennon

[@thisisryan2094]

It is certainly a tragedy, but John Lennon was not a nice guy.

[@thisisryan2094]

***** Well, he was apparently not nice to people in person, was quite arrogant, the minute he fell in love with Joko Ono he started always putting her first to the detriment of others, etc. Great music, a shame he died so horribly, but not a kind person unfortunately.

[@altosame]

How would you know? Really?

[@southsideman4891]

+ThisIsRyan John Lennon was a flawed man.. But he was a man. He had certainly had his bad, he made me upset looling back; but, he certainly had his good as well. We dont do him any justice trying to paint him with broad strokes: he was a complicated human being, who fought good and bad, won some battles and lost some battles, and tried to do the best he could with what he knew how. Like you and me.

[@kirkmoore4515]

@Danny Branderson "But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao, You ani't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" .....hardly the words of a "commie" you stupid little boy.

[@jarelllevingston7882]

Here for the 40th anniversary.

[@paulallen9158]

I was driving through the snow from Chicago to Lake Villa to visit my wife who was on a mini-vacation. I stopped at a Denny's to get a cup of coffee on the way. At that Denny's, everybody had mysteriously stopped working and was watching TV. I joined in. I soon found out why. Lennon was a great man, especially in the music world!

[@AlexErika]

I was three months old when this happened. What a tragedy.

[@ekop1778]

+Alex & Erika | Travel Vlogs I WAS 10 THEN DONT SEEM LIKE BEEN 35 YRS WOW

[@AlexErika]

+Edward Koepke time goes too quickly!

[@tressaray124]

+Edward Koepke , I was 10 as well, it was my 10th birthday :(

[@valorik]

+Alex & Erika | Travel Vlogs I was five days shy of turning seven when this happened.

[@w.k.koogle9101]

+Tressa Ray It was my 30th birthday, and I took it very hard. John and his very famous bandmates profoundly affected my life.

[@scottward7813]

Live in a small town, we had just come back from a chimney fire at a farmhouse out in the country and heard the news on the radio stunned

[@dobieprime]

Was watching the game in my room when I was a kid. I remember exactly how I felt. I ran into the living room to tell my parents. The Beatles, and my father, made me want to play music. I hugged the radio beside my bed the rest of the night .

[@blackestcat1111]

I remember my dad was in shock- we were putting up the tree and he was watching the game - i remember my dad immediately turned on the radio and cried - sad ❤🥀

[@georgeorwell4534]

I so remember this moment. My friends and I looked at each other and didn’t saying anything for an hour.

[@AlfredCMartino]

42 years ago this evening. I remember it well. I was a junior in high school and had a crush on a classmate by the name of Lauren Nagy. We were both stunned, confused, and generally crushed. This was at a time when people weren't bombarded by news 24/7 on their phones, computers and even televisions, so to hear about it, particularly during a pro football game, was monumentally unique. I believe, a few days later, there was a national moment of silence for Lennon. Just devastating. And to Lauren Nagy, if you are still around, I wish you well.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

The news is still a shock. It will always be a shock. RIP John Lennon.

[@Oli-cc3eh]

Zooiey Rae dumbest least funny thing i've ever heard

[@Oli-cc3eh]

Zooiey Rae its ok

[@russellh6152]

George Vreeland Hill true

[@robertyacobozzi9435]

So if I tell you right now John Lennon was shot and killed you would be shocked by the news?

[@dr.migalitoloveless1651]

@@robertyacobozzi9435 good one 😁👍

[@willsteele5751]

first michael jackson and now john lennon? i just want 2019 to end already

[@atasteofhoney6018]

William Steele actually it was first John lennon, then michael jackson

[@dan-ho1zz]

I can’t tell if you’re kidding

[@lisam8525]

Give 'im a break guys, he may be caught in a Mandela loop...just sit down and breathe William Steele. First we need you to know this is the reality where it's spelled Berenstain, life was like a box of chocolates, we may or may not have gone to the Moon and Pearl Harbor was not the first foreign attack on American soil...k you good now?

[@atasteofhoney6018]

Lisa M lm ao

[@willsteele5751]

guys it was a joke thanks for ruining it

[@GoDawgs18]

It’s amazing we can hear it the same as it was in 1980

[@mikegruber172]

thats how recordings work

[@GoDawgs18]

@@mikegruber172 😂

[@kimmyt3smv]

I'll never forget that day! I was in high school and everyone was either in shock or crying. So very sad RIP John

[@austindenotter19]

I doubt the crying part. Nobody cried in my school or even cared. Siren Wisconsin.

[@tbessy1963]

@@austindenotter19 wisconsin backward gop morons. Nuff said.

[@luigi.958]

39 years later... you are still missed John Lennon.

[@woodyhayes7402]

Missed for what? He enriched himself singing songs...Not like he cured cancer or rescued families Via the fire Department. Just an entertainer and that's it.

[@jimbailey5681]

And you've done both of those?

[@woodyhayes7402]

@@jimbailey5681 - Rescued people yes, don't do cures, sorry.

[@therealbomb_com8774]

@@woodyhayes7402 It's not like he was an activist speaking around the world for peace and the ending of Vietnam. It's also not like millions upon millions of people look up to him for inspiration because of how influential his music was to people. And his music has basically changed everything previously known of music. So, you go and start a band, create 208 songs and 12 album, all of whch have hit No.1 in the U.K, sell 600 Million albums, 1.6 Billion singles, have 20+ singles top the charts in the U.K and U.S, have 40% of the U.S population watch you on T.V, create hysteria upon teenage girls to the point in which you have girls raiding your home just to see you, be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE, have at least one of your songs played on the radio at all times, and bring your band to be the most influential musical group in history and then you can critisize John.

[@woodyhayes7402]

@@therealbomb_com8774 - Great story, do you love/worship a mere man? He gave nothing to society other than songs and enriched himself in the process. He's not important.

[@WhiteCamry]

It was 35 years ago today ...

[@estelleaxton2016]

+WhiteCamry Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.

[@destroyernoah]

+Estelle Axton I love you.

[@elvira5135]

Estelle Axton lmao

[@dianekimball6812]

Estelle Axton good one

[@cebollajsjsjsk]

@@estelleaxton2016 this is either an amazing or a cursed comment