Uploaded September 2011 | Updated September 2026, 11 minutes ago
Howard Cosell is a broadcasting legend. People associate and remember him with different sports like professional boxing, major league baseball, NFL football, and even the Olympics. Here is a clip from the opening "teaser" of a 1980 ABC Monday Night Football game. Co-hosts were Don Meredith and Frank Gifford.
His grandson is working on getting him inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the Pete Rozelle Radio-TV Award for helping to make NFL football mainstream in America.
It was over thirty years ago that John Lennon of the Beatles rock band was shot dead in front of his Manhattan apartment on December 8th, 1980. Howard Cosell announced it at the end of the Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins scored on the first possession of overtime to win 16-13.
"Remember, this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses," Cosell told TV viewers. "An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead ... on ... arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take." --HOWARD COSELL
As fans watching the game on TV listened to Howard Cosell deliver the stunning news, all they saw was Patriots kicker John Smith preparing for a field goal attempt. Meanwhile, players and fans inside the stadium were not aware of that Howard Cosell had just announced the shooting death of John Lennon on national television.
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Howard Cosell is a broadcasting legend. People associate and remember him with different sports like professional boxing, major league baseball, NFL football, and even the Olympics. Here is a clip from the opening "teaser" of a 1980 ABC Monday Night Football game. Co-hosts were Don Meredith and Frank Gifford.
His grandson is working on getting him inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the Pete Rozelle Radio-TV Award for helping to make NFL football mainstream in America.
It was over thirty years ago that John Lennon of the Beatles rock band was shot dead in front of his Manhattan apartment on December 8th, 1980. Howard Cosell announced it at the end of the Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins scored on the first possession of overtime to win 16-13.
"Remember, this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses," Cosell told TV viewers. "An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City, the most famous, perhaps, of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, dead ... on ... arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty bound, we have to take." --HOWARD COSELL
As fans watching the game on TV listened to Howard Cosell deliver the stunning news, all they saw was Patriots kicker John Smith preparing for a field goal attempt. Meanwhile, players and fans inside the stadium were not aware of that Howard Cosell had just announced the shooting death of John Lennon on national television.
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