“Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It ... toward the end of his run on “MNF,” he called an African-American player a “little monkey,” a remark Cosell defended by saying that he used the ...

On the replay, Howard Cosell remarks, "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?" The apparent comparison of Garrett, an African American, to a primate got Cosell in a heap of trouble.

There are probably as many Howard Cosell stories floating around as there are number of days the man trod the earth, which was in excess of 28,000 when he died Sunday. Here are a few of them ...

On the telephone from New Yawk, Howard Cosell was his usual prime-time self. He didn`t want to be bothered, but the show must go on. ”So, Verdi,” he said. ”What are you doing with your life?

Collinsworth’s 15 seasons is the longest continuous prime-time run on broadcast television of any NFL color analyst ever, surpassing Howard Cosell’s 14-year stretch on “Monday Night Football ...