“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.

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?

HOWARD COSELL: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports, by Mark Ribowsky. W.W. Norton & Company, 477 pages, $29.95. How is it possible that 16 years have passed without a ...

You didn't just love or hate Howard Cosell ... the NFL "a stagnant bore," Cosell left "Monday Night Football." He had outsize ambitions. He grandly imagined a run for the Senate, though that ...

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 ...