Aside from Muhammed Ali, no other figure in modern times had a more
disastrous effect on the sports world than Howard Cosell, IMHO. Not
only did this ugly and arrogant sports "journalist" poison
the airwaves with his total lack of knowledge about sports for decades,
he did it in the shrillest, most annoying voice this side of Rosanne
Barr. Thanks to Cosell, we have to listen to Chris Berman's even more
annoying imitations of him. Before screwing up pro football every
Monday night, Cosell was primarily known for promoting the antics of
Muhammed Ali, and participating in many of them as a willing foil. Just
in case the audience didn't catch the brilliance of Ali's kindergarden
rhymes, Cosell was there to tell them how brilliant "the Greatest"
really was. Once he went to MNF, we had to put up with his repetitive,
tiresome soliloquies of political correctness. We also learned that
Jackie Robinson's middle name was Roosevelt, because Cosell managed to
say his entire name over and over again during broadcasts that
supposedly had nothing to do with a Brooklyn Dodger who broke the
modern color barrier in baseball. During his stints doing Major League
Baseball, which he also managed to ruin in his familar way, Cosell
would usually branch off into editorials that Karl Marx would have
approved of, when he wasn't glorifying the overrated, obnoxious Reggie
Jackson. Anyway, guess you can tell I didn't like him.
disastrous effect on the sports world than Howard Cosell, IMHO. Not
only did this ugly and arrogant sports "journalist" poison
the airwaves with his total lack of knowledge about sports for decades,
he did it in the shrillest, most annoying voice this side of Rosanne
Barr. Thanks to Cosell, we have to listen to Chris Berman's even more
annoying imitations of him. Before screwing up pro football every
Monday night, Cosell was primarily known for promoting the antics of
Muhammed Ali, and participating in many of them as a willing foil. Just
in case the audience didn't catch the brilliance of Ali's kindergarden
rhymes, Cosell was there to tell them how brilliant "the Greatest"
really was. Once he went to MNF, we had to put up with his repetitive,
tiresome soliloquies of political correctness. We also learned that
Jackie Robinson's middle name was Roosevelt, because Cosell managed to
say his entire name over and over again during broadcasts that
supposedly had nothing to do with a Brooklyn Dodger who broke the
modern color barrier in baseball. During his stints doing Major League
Baseball, which he also managed to ruin in his familar way, Cosell
would usually branch off into editorials that Karl Marx would have
approved of, when he wasn't glorifying the overrated, obnoxious Reggie
Jackson. Anyway, guess you can tell I didn't like him.