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

For better or worse, Don Cherry, at least in Canada.

 

Ah yes, the Deux Deux Deux's comment. My old man used to gobble 222's like Pez, never heard anyone call them by a French handle. And if you took enough of those things you could be passably fluent in Canada's other official language.

And fat ass Berman will never write anything as good as Cosell by Cosell.

 

A buddy of mine used to be big into checking out books on tape from the library. He once got Cosell's "I Never Played the Game," narrated by ... Cosell.

It was fantastic ...

 

I actually got that book for Christmas when I was about 10 or 12 years old. Read the whole things. I used to be able to do a mean Howard Cosell impersonation.

EDIT: I may have been older when I got the book. If it came out in 1987, I'd have been 14. All I know for sure is that I was pretty young to be perusing a book by Howard Cosell. But back then I really wanted to be a sportscaster (what can I say? I was young. LOL) and my parents thought it'd be a cool present. I read his other book, too. Can't remember the name, though.

 

I'd forgotten about that book, think I still have a paperback copy of it here somewhere. I remember taking it on a post-Christmas trip to south Florida that included the 1987 Orange Bowl.

 

That's about how old I was when I read "I Never Played the Game," too. I had to do a presentation on it for class, which got me in a little trouble for referencing the line about him being a "n-- loving Jew bastard." Of course I knew better, but I felt it was central to some point I was making, so I went with it.

 

You can rip on Cosell for doing BOTNS all you want, but how else were you going to get to see Farrah Fawcett play tennis up close and personal? (Man those were the days.)

 

Cossell vs. Berman is a bit like Carl Sagan vs. Fred Flintstone. Brains with a bizarre vocal delivery vs. a silly unlikeable fake Jackie Gleason.

 

I liked Fred.

Just sayin'.

 

Good analogy right there.

 

Much like Frankenstein's monster, this thread refuses to die.