50 years ago today, December 9th 1974, Howard Cosell interviewed John Lennon during a Monday Night Football gameβ¦
Almost exactly 6 years later, December 8th 1980, also during a Monday Night Football game Cosell would be the person to break the news to the country of Lennon's murder.
#JohnLennon #HowardCosell #MondayNightFootball #TheBeatles
Ex #NBA & #ABA basketball #PR man #RudyMartzke whose role as a cofounding #SportsEditor & #TVSports journalist at #USAToday made him must read & oft dreaded Monday AM fodder for #Network execs & #sportsbroadcasters like #DickVitale
#HowardCosell & #JohnMadden has passed ... Wives, Waiters & bartenders everywhere express relief ...
Tonight in 1981 β Co-host #ErinGray tried her best to avoid physical contact w/ #HowardCosell on BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS.
#NFL #NFLHistory #MNF #Jets #Raiders
1972 Week 13 - NY Jets At Oakland
11 Dec 1972
#HowardCosell , #DonMeredith and #FrankGifford in the booth with #GlenCampbell singing the National Anthem.
#JoeNamath and #DaryleLamonica at QB.
During half time (at 1h36m29s) they go to ABC News to show footage of what we missed from the moon on Apollo 17.
They also show the astronauts conducting some experiments.
Includes commercials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0xjLZOTQk&ab_channel=erbigfan2003
The official announcement by #HowardCosell on #ABC's #MondayNightFootball.
RIP, #JohnLennon.
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