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 Dec. 8, 1980 ...

Don Meredith and Howard Cosell broadcast Monday Night Football between the Washington Redskins and Baltimore Colts in Memorial Stadium on November 6, 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Ross Lewis) ...

The most famous television sportscaster of the 1970s was Howard Cosell, a nasal-toned, staccato blast of magniloquent pomposity who became the face and voice of ABC’s biggest prime-time shows, like ...

NEW YORK — Bob Goodrich had one thought: Was it a hoax? No way this was true. No way. It was late in the night on Dec. 8, 1980, and Goodrich was sitting in a television production truck at the Orange ...

Maybe you’ve heard, but December 8 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the day John Lennon was murdered. Obviously, there are tributes almost anywhere you look today — including a Lennon tribute night ...

Don Meredith was the happiest, most fun-loving guy wherever he went, whether crooning country tunes in the huddle as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys or jawing with Howard Cosell in the broadcast ...

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?" Such was the ...

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (2010) — The voice, abruptly unleashed from an audio vault, ascends in rising tides of dissonance. It is unrelenting in purpose and fervor. It is, of course, Howard Cosell.

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 Dec. 8, 1980 ...