Howard Cosell didn’t know what to do. He and his fellow “Monday Night Football” announcers Frank Gifford and Don Meredith were broadcasting the New England Patriots-Miami Dolphins game on ...

I’ve enjoyed it very much." “Thank you, Howard,” Lennon answered. “So did I. See you at a football game." “Yes, indeed,” Cosell said. “At halftime in our 'Monday Night' booth.” ...

“How are you, Howard?” he said. Cosell, in a bright yellow sports jacket, started out by asking the former Beatle what he thought of football. After giving his “tea party” reply, Lennon ...

Two funerals, nine years apart, illustrated Howard Cosell’s changing sentiments toward the National Football League. The first was Vince Lombardi’s in 1970. Cosell knew the legendary Packers ...

When ABC Sports guru Roone Arledge was suggesting Howard Cosell for “Monday Night Football,” NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle replied: “Cosell? Why don’t you just dig up Attila the Hun?” ...

Until pro football went prime time ... Famed sportscaster Howard Cosell, the subject of TNT's "Monday Night Mayhem," having his head examined by Muhammad Ali before the Olympic trials in 1972.

On ABC’s Monday Night Football, Redskin' wide receiver Alvin Garrett uses a herky-jerky maneuver to get a first down against the Cowboys. On the replay, Howard Cosell remarks, "That little ...

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 ...

Longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman is among several notable sports media figures who are candidates for induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Other candidates, whose names might not be ...