NFL Week 1: Frankenstein's, er, Peyton's Return

Cosell could definitely do silly stuff, but that wasn't all he could do.

 

If your kids ever ask you what the 70s were like just show them that picture.

 

Best BOTNS moment ever was when Lynda "Wonder Woman" Carter poured champagne over Cosell's toupee during the post-"game" interview.

 

Howard Cosell reported the Israeli terrorist attack live on ABC during the 1972 Olympics.
Howard Cosell reported John Lennon's death on Monday Night Football that is still talked about today.
Howard Cosell was, in his prime, an excellent boxing play by play man.
Howard Cosell was extremely smart. Howard did a daily radio show, "Speaking of Sports". Berman does Applebee's commercials.


I watched Howard Cosell for decades. Chris Berman is no Howard Cosell.

 

+1

Howard was also a U.S. serviceman and a practicing attorney.

 

The biggest difference is while Cosell could be a blowhard and surely did his share of schlock (remember Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell? Didn't think so), he was always a journalist first.

Was Berman ever a journalist?

 

Pretty sure Berman considers the height of his reporting career, such as it was, his work at "The Catch" game in 1982.
They have shown footage of him at that scene many times, so he must be very proud of it.
Even a clip of him shoving a dude who gets too close during the after-game mob scene on the field.
That wasn't even the team he got the Super Bowl ring from; it was the 49ers team 13 years later.

 

Wait...

Berman has a Super Bowl ring? For what exactly? Being an obnoxious douchebag?

 

The 49ers gave him one many years ago -- I think it was from one of the back-to-back years, not the '94 one as 3OF said. He was showing it off so proudly, and other reporters wrote about it and that shamed ESPN into making him give it back.

Should be a legendary story right alongside Leather, but it happened before the Internets.

 

It was in Freeman's ESPN book. Thought that was common knowledge by now.
That was his biggest crime against the profession, usually ignored among the ones he is bashed for.

 

He should give it back. That's just wrong professionally.

 

Why do attorneys have to practice so much?