Talk:Howard Cosell

message: No mention here of the catch phrase so closely associated with Howard Cosell, "telling it like it is."
:I've added it.  Wasted Time R 13:15, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: catch phrase

message: The writing here is a disgrace. First, HC called Herb Mul-Key of the Redskins a monkey. Second, the writing here is so poor, I refuse to edit. Sad, because HC is due more.
I wrote the section you are criticizing.  Off the top of my Google, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/memories/1995/95pass13.htm lists, in the quotations, about Howard Cosell referring to Garrett.  There are countless other sources which state that it was Mike Adamle (1970), Herb Mul-Key (1973) and Alvin Garrett (1983).
I'm the gentleman who made the above comment, and I've made one further change to the "Little Monkey" section.  I believe it is important to show that there does exist evidence that Cosell used "little monkey", in the exact same way he used it to describe Alvin Garrett, to describe players of all ethnicities.  Saying "Others were quick to point out" reduces the notion to hearsay.  It is not hearsay; it is a fact, evinced at least by Cosell's referral of Mike Adamle with that term on a broadcast.  If the wording is off, say so, but at the very least, can't we keep it as a matter of record that NOT "others state that," but in fact, "Cosell DID do that.."?
Authoritative website source- http://howardcosell-littlemonkeycomment.blogspot.com/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.22.166.87 (talk) 17:37, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Who wrote this?

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Ronald Reagan and Howard Cosell.JPG

message: Cosell's wife went to Columbia High School in Maplewood NJ, and she and Cosell were married at Prospect Presbyterian Church in Maplewood. Note that CHS is shared between two towns, so Abrams may in fact have been a South Orange resident. Source of this info is a discussion on the alumni mailing list (alumni_chsultimate on yahoogroups) for the CHS Ultimate (sport) team; in the early 1970s, Ed Summers and other folks from the team spoke to Cosell in an elevator in an attempt to get him to promote the sport. -- Akb4 (talk) 06:54, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Abrams facts

message: I think it's important to note which of the six knockdowns Cosell yelled "Down Goes Frazier" on. --Kitch (Talk : Contrib) 13:39, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Down Goes Frazier 

message: See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 09:33, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations & References

message: Do we really need to spend so much time and space talking about his brief military career?  It was a brief and unimportant part of his life, and frankly I doubt that anyone cares.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.166.136.120 (talk) 19:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military 

message: If someone can actually find something there is actually relevant to an encylopedic article on Cosell, place it in the appropriate section.  
I'm going to axe the whole section.
:: done  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.236.208 (talk) 01:32, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultural References has to go 

message: Should be something on his manner of speech / accent, which was distinctive and widely parodied... AnonMoos (talk) 09:40, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: speaking accent

message: The article's section on this famous quote begins by stating as fact that Cosell delivered the line on-air, and then goes into a bit of detail about it; the section then ends with a convincing argument that Cosell didn't say anything of the sort (based mostly on this article from 2007). Is there positive proof that Cosell delivered the line? E.g. a Youtube clip, or audio recording? What is the earliest source for the quote? The provided New York Times article is from 2005. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 21:24, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "The Bronx is burning"

message: Today (14 January 2011) I added a parenthetical comment to the effect that Cosell is, indeed, on record as referring to Mike Adamle as a "little monkey".  The comment is from a 1972 pre-season game that was broadcast and included in a broadcast on Cosell's life.  If you want a citation before I put that in, I'll dig it up.  But I think it's important -- Cosell didn't just "claim" he did it in the past for Adamle, he actually factually DID refer to Adamle as a "little monkey" 11 years in the past.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.5.67.195 (talk) 11:21, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Like almost all content in Wikipedia, it needs a citation. --CutOffTies (talk) 14:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The whole deal about that brouhaha was that to some it sounded like Cosell was being racist - which, to anyone who knew Cosell, was absurd. If he veriably used that term specifically for one player, more than once, that could be am interesting bit of trivia. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Evidence absolving Cosell in "little monkey" controversy

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Why is there no mention of Cosell's comment calling a black athlete "little monkey"?  It caused a huge brouhaha at the time.  I believe he was fired for it, although I see other indications from today's Google search that he left voluntarily because of it.  That controversy is what I remember most about him.  It is mentioned here:
::Cosell...created a furor with his comment during the Sept. 5, 1983, telecast of the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Redskins game. After watching Garrett, a Redskins wide receiver, make a darting run after a catch, Cosell exclaimed, "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?"
I plan to add it.  --David Tornheim (talk) 05:33, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Little monkey" comment