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Ken Weber50 years ago today, December 9th 1974, Howard Cosell interviewed John Lennon during a Monday Night Football game…Almost exactly 6 years later, December 8th 1980, also during a Monday Night Football game Cosell would be the person to break the news to the country of Lennon's murder. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnLennon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnLennon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HowardCosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowardCosell</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MondayNightFootball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MondayNightFootball</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBeatles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheBeatles</a>

LilMikeSFEx <a href="https://c.im/tags/NBA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NBA</a> & <a href="https://c.im/tags/ABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ABA</a> basketball <a href="https://c.im/tags/PR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PR</a> man <a href="https://c.im/tags/RudyMartzke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RudyMartzke</a> whose role as a cofounding <a href="https://c.im/tags/SportsEditor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SportsEditor</a> & <a href="https://c.im/tags/TVSports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TVSports</a> journalist at <a href="https://c.im/tags/USAToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USAToday</a> made him must read & oft dreaded Monday AM fodder for <a href="https://c.im/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Network</a> execs & <a href="https://c.im/tags/sportsbroadcasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sportsbroadcasters</a> like <a href="https://c.im/tags/DickVitale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DickVitale</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HowardCosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowardCosell</a> & <a href="https://c.im/tags/JohnMadden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnMadden</a> has passed ... Wives, Waiters & bartenders everywhere express relief ...<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2024/11/22/rudy-martzke-sports-columnist-usa-today-dies/76508824007/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2024/11/22/rudy-martzke-sports-columnist-usa-today-dies/76508824007/</a>

Smooth43 years ago this evening, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HowardCosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowardCosell</a> announced on ABC's Monday Night Football that, "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnLennon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnLennon</a> of The Beatles was shot in front of the Dakota on Central Park West in Manhattan. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital...dead on arrival." 😢

Death Cabbage<a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/howardcosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#howardcosell</a> ' I'll be back in 60 seconds...

Will McKinleyTonight in 1981 — Co-host <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ErinGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ErinGray</a> tried her best to avoid physical contact w/ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HowardCosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowardCosell</a> on BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/1980sTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#1980sTV</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BattleOfTheNetworkStars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BattleOfTheNetworkStars</a>

Death Cabbage<a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/howardcosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#howardcosell</a> I'll be back in 60 seconds

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿<a href="https://finsup.site/tags/NFL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NFL</a> <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/NFLHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NFLHistory</a> <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/MNF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MNF</a> <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/Jets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jets</a> <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/Raiders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Raiders</a> 1972 Week 13 - NY Jets At Oakland 11 Dec 1972<a href="https://finsup.site/tags/HowardCosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowardCosell</a> , <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/DonMeredith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DonMeredith</a> and <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/FrankGifford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FrankGifford</a> in the booth with <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/GlenCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlenCampbell</a> singing the National Anthem.<a href="https://finsup.site/tags/JoeNamath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JoeNamath</a> and <a href="https://finsup.site/tags/DaryleLamonica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DaryleLamonica</a> at QB.During half time (at 1h36m29s) they go to ABC News to show footage of what we missed from the moon on Apollo 17. They also show the astronauts conducting some experiments.Includes commercials.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0xjLZOTQk&ab_channel=erbigfan2003" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0xjLZOTQk&ab_channel=erbigfan2003</a>

Jason Pettus :blobrainbow:<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/TodayILearned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TodayILearned</a> that sportscaster <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/HowardCosell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HowardCosell</a> was the very first prominent white person to agree to refer to Cassius Clay by his new name, Muhammad Ali. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cosell" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Cosell</a>

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