Bob Costas: Howard Cosell resented Al Michaels and me
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Eight-time National Sportscaster of the Year award winner Bob Costas lets us in on his encounters and relationships with fellow broadcasting icons John Madden, Howard Cosell and Jim McKay. Costas describes when he was selected as John Madden’s auditioning partner in 1979, a candid conversation with Howard Cosell shortly before his passing in 1995 and impactful praise from ABC’s Jim McKay prior to Costas heading to Barcelona in 1992 to work his first Olympic broadcast with NBC.
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0:00 - John Madden's audition with a young Bob Costas
1:33 - Bob Costas's first encounter with Howard Cosell
4:11 - Jim McKay's endorsement
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Let's not forget the real genius of MNF. A man who put it all together, this maniacal mix of personalities and chaos, making the NFL for the first time- entertainment. RIP Roone Arledge.
Bingo! You got it.
Not really that would be the executive director of MNF Chet Forte. Totally revolutionized the use of cameras and audio in live sports. Most of what was special about MNF besides those 3 in the booth was Chet Forte's impeccable production style. .
@@tw364 Good point. Forte was good, and what resonated with me even from their first broadcast, was that they personalized the game: They showed pictures of the faces of the players without their helmets, along with the names of the colleges they attended. I can't recall whether NBC or CBS did that prior to MNF. As silly as it seems, that blew me away.
@@jamesanthony5681 in the very first Monday Night game, rather than putting the camera on the Browns celebrating in the endzone, they held the camera on Joe Namath standing dejectedly with his head bowed down after throwing the Pick-6 that ended the Jets' chances.
@@Namath1000 Interesting. Not surprised, however.
Not only is he a great interviewer, he’s a great interviewee
Haha! The greatest that could have been.
Graham's an incredible interviewer. Knows when to talk and when to succinctly ask a question.
Yes, great description. Doesn't ask a question and then ramble on for another 30 seconds.
He's a terrible interviewer, and the wording of his questions leave a lot to be desired.
@@jamesanthony5681 Guy creeps me out, too.
Jim McKay was fantastic - could cover any sport well. Go look at the Indy 500s he did - absolutely nails it.
Jim McKay was an excellent host and anchor but his problem was he wanted to be liked therefore he never said anything provocative or courageous Howard Cosell on the other hand was smart savvy and didn’t care what people thought of him
Also did it with genuine enthusiasm and never hated on any sport he covered.
And here comes tiny Lichtenstein.
McKay stayed too long, like many others.
And bowling!
Jim McKay WAS the Olympics!
You are correct, Bruce. McKay was huge compared to the NBC clowns including Costas. Costas always wanting to gum up sporting events with soap opera crap. Always talking politics and racism like it's not everywhere else.
@@wesgilmer5391 need a tissue with that whine?
@@wesgilmer5391 Costas was good on NBC Baseball, always prepared, knowledgeable, knew the game, and was not afraid to challenge Tony Kubek on some of the things he said.
McKay was also ABC Wide World of Sports (every weekend).
Mckay was the Olympics and the voice of Indianapolis 500. I can't stand Bob Costas. Another brain dead liberal.
Howard Cosell was a legend.
Cosell was a jackass, he was a punchline. we all hated him, every one did
In his own mind.
@@evans9281 True he did have a big ego and although I wasn’t a fan of Ali I respect that a jew was one of the few people who went to bat for Ali during his exile.
Wish I could do my imitation of him for you.
I'm in my 60's now and talk about being spoiled, I have had the opportunity to listen to so many great broadcasters and actually feel sorry for the kids of today.
Im 59, do you have an all-time fav sports journalist ? I liked Brookshire-Summerall, Kirk Gowdy, Howard, Frank & Dandy Don. Jim McKay...so thankful for him.
@@softhotty Tony Kubeck, Joe Gargiola, Chris Schenkel, Chick Hearn, Vin Scully, Don Drysdale, Keith Jackson too many to name.
@@RubenMartinez-tu8ge Marv Albert, Jim Lampley.
Give me the Great Brent Musburger! Jack of all trades! He can do pro or college football, basketball, baseball and boxing! Brent is the Man! 💯💜🏀🏈⚾️🥊🙏
Best ever, cawood ledford...next john tong. As best p.a. announcer voice.
Goallll by Griffith.
But play by play.
Cawood over any of them. Including cosell
This man is 70 years old. Truly remarkable
Unbelievable. He passes for 50!
Costas is 70!??!! Really?
I caught that too when he said he was 27 in ‘79. Crazy, doesn’t look it.
Filler and hair dye,he couldn’t fill Cosells shoes
@@leeolson539He couldn't fit in his underwear. Costas has a comfortable voice. Other than that, not much.
OMG!! I jumped in my seat and thought the great Howard Cosell entered the interview!!! I loved the 70s' and ABC Sports.
I remember the 1972 Olympics games and that broadcast referenced. It truly was unbelievable to witness.
For you young bloods, Monday Night Football in the 70's with Cosell was ABSOLUTLEY must watch; even non-football fans watched.
Yeah, 3 channels of TV, ONE college game on Saturday, Two NFL games on Sunday, and....Monday Night Football with Dandy Don and The Giffer.
They must have pulled in 20M viewers when the US population was a third less.
People don't realize if your team was on Monday Night Football back then, it was like a mini-Super Bowl. And Howard Cosell was genius at narrating the halftime highlights.
half time highlights
Weee-aaaabbb-sooooo-luuuuuuute-ley knoooooow, what you're talking, abooout!
@@devolutionary THIS IS HOW WAHD CO. SELL!
Howard Cosell was one of the Greatest ever ! The greatest in boxing by far! And my lord couldn’t wait for Monday night Football! He is sorely missed! Thank you Howard RIP
The greatest in the TV era. Don't sleep on Don Dunphy. I'd rate Cosell better, but Dunphy was close.
Exactly he may have some faults but he was intelligent and particularly at that time a lot different then other announcers and great boxing announcer
He is my age but still looks so youthful, and obviously his communication skills and humanity are so impressive. There have been many greats in sports broadcasting but Bob is up there with the tops and still a humble sekf aware guy
Getting insulted by Howard Cosell is almost as good as getting insulted by Don Rickles.
The late, great sportswriter Jimmy Cannon reportedly said, 'If Howard Cosell were a sport, he'd be roller derby.'
No disrespect, but I'm thinking that might be "the other way around". Mr. Rickles was generous with insults, Mr. Cosell was more deliberate in the his sneers! 😆
The way he insulted BILLIE JEAN KING when Miss King came out for the BATTLE of the SEXES was a disgrace .
Cosell had an ego the size of Nebraska but he was entertaining. Jim McKay was the best. Will never forget him at the ‘72 Munich Olympics. And Costas going back to his KMOX days is great.
Cosell was like a pro wrestler. He knew how to bring the heat and he wasn't afraid to have a big, over the top personality that would be both loved and hated. You don't see a lot of people in a usually conservative arena like sports broadcasting have that kind of balls.
Cosell was an arrogant boor.
Which a hell of a lot of people apparently liked.
@@thomasparker2447 Nobody "liked" Cosell. Those that worked with him put up with his condescending and arrogant attitude because they had to.
His best sport was boxing, no question, and he had an innate sense when the fight was about to turn. Cosell at the mic for boxing was always must-see television.
Bob Costos is just another liberal lying fudge packer.
I love Cosell stories. Yes he was a pompous jerk but that’s what made him such a legend. Costas is a great broadcaster and story teller too.
@@malus1426 totally agree
@@malus1426 totally agree..Don't recall his stance on gun control after Ding Dong left 600,000 machine guns for ISIS to take
Bob Costas is a lousy boring storyteller and a buffoon
costas couldnt even come close to the mighty, Cosell' he,s jealous,, because nobody will ever,talk about him in the same breath as the mighty Cosell
@@eddieespinoza6904 totally agree
Fantastic interview and guest in Bob Costas. The tidbits of Madden, Cosell, and McKay were priceless. In my book, Bob Costas and Jim McKay will go down as 2 of the greatest in sports broadcasting and in the same vein that Mr. Costas described Jim McKay.
@0:24. Bob didn’t mention that he was the radio announcer (1974-1976) for the ABA team The Spirit of St Louis. He called games featuring NBA hall of famers like Dr. J., Bobby Jones, Moses Malone (who actually played for the Spirits) Artis Gilmore and others. Did a fantastic job as radio broadcaster which propelled him to future success in the business. St Louis has been my hometown for 66 years.
Guy has a gift for calling it like he sees it. Be it on a ball field or in the human character, Mr Costas can really express what is.
That’s exactly how he is when I was a driver for him one time. He’s a straight up guy.
@@nitro_001newman2 I have been amazed as the details he offers when he's interviewed: he can talk about the pitcher, batter, inning, game, location, year, etc. So much data in his remarks. Do you think it's more that he has an impeccable memory or tremendous research before the interview. In my mind both are equally impressive. What's your impression?
He's a Yankee and Cardinal shill.
I could listen to Bob for hours
Bob can talk for days. arrogant pompous ass
I can listen to him for minutes
@@dins5066 as long as you're listening 🎶
Howard Cosell made Monday Night Football a must watch.
With the help of Gifford and Meredith. It was the team that did it.
Wrong.... While brilliant, he was so annoying that if he was on any channel on Sunday..... everyone would watch the other channels....
So they put him on Monday night.... a mini monopoly.
Super interesting story of the night Cosell announced John Lennon's death and the talk between Giff and Howard during the commercial break leading to it
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@@franram7426 There was a bar in Colorado that had a raffle contest during MNF, the winner got to throw a brick at Cosell on the TV. The bar was always packed. MNF became what it did not is spite of Cosell, but because of him, Frank and Don. ABC didn't stick him on MNF, they didn't have to hire him at all if no one would watch him. Quite the opposite in fact. MNF was an event.
@@howie9751
Wait..... I'm not saying that MNF wasn't the "IT" that it was and Howard was definitely part of that "IT"....
I'm cross checking all these guys that are trying to pass Howard off as some football Guru.... He wasn't. He was with Boxing and had an impeccable memory. He was annoying. So much so that ratings dropped if there were other options.
I drove a yellow cab in NYC for many years. Late one night I noticed an elderly gentleman hailing a cab between 9th and 10th Avenue on 57th Street. There were no cabs around, so despite it being illegal, I banked a U-turn and headed back to get him before some mugger noticed him. Lo and behold the person hailing me was Howard Cosell. He was headed to the TV studio not far away, over in the mid 60's on West End, I believe it was ABC headquarters at the time. The Redskins had just won the Super Bowl that year, and after a few blocks of friendly chat he asked me if he could try some material out for some radio spot he was doing, then began to sing, "Hail to the Redskins"---a sort of convoluted homage to the song "Hail to the Chief", I guess both roughly correlating to Washington DC.. I told him it was great material--solid gold. Then I asked him how he liked his co-workers and he snidely replied, "Al Michaels is a third rate Vin Scully! The others are okay...I guess." So, clearly this report has some truth to it. When we arrived at the studio we were headed north, so were situated on the wrong side of the street again. Knowing Cosell had Alzheimers (or some such debilitating malady) I graciously made a SECOND illegal U-turn for him so he didn't have to cross the four lane roadway. I threw the meter and told him the fare was $4.25. Cosell slowly, carefully unpeeled four dollars from a roll, then rummaged around in a change purse for a quarter, and handed it to me. I waited for the tip, but it didn't come, so I kept my hand out, nodding at Cosell until he sort of balked for a moment, then grudgingly proceeded to count out twenty five cents in nickels, which this millionaire gave me as my tip. Average tip on a $4.25 fare back then was just to round it off to $5. But I'd made two U-turns for him and also treated him like a king while he was in my cab. Needless to say, this is my payback. Al Michaels may have been a third rate Vin Scully, but Cosell was chiseler.
Interesting. Yes, he was a chiseler for doing that. How cheap can you get? At the end of his television career, Cosell pissed on a number of people, including Roone Arledge, who, Howard says, reneged on a promise to give him a co-host role on 20/20 or Good Morning America, I can't remember which. Arledge said he made no such promise
Wow, what a story! I'm sure you have many stories - you ought to write a book or an article, at least!
Al Michael's said that Cosell's friendship with Arlidge became strained when Roone let Jim McKay report on the Munich Olympics tragedy. Howard always let his ego get in the way.
Thanks for sharing: I drove limos/Town cars for a while in LA (had many celebrates including) the one most pros looked/look up to-Mr. Vin Scully. We had a great conversation which include some NY-high school-baseball insight which helped me with a script I was writing. Don't recall the tip-as most celebrities in LA are on their way to a gig-so the studio pays the bills-and a meaneal tip. Celebs don't usually carry money and forgot how to tip even before they ever did. But! Barbara Eden (via her Man) did tip me...and Lauren Bacall gave me the greatest "tip" of all time; stories about her and Humphry Bogart!!
Yet another thing I could go on living a happy and fulfilling life without knowing.
Bob Costas one of the top 3 or 4 sportscaster's ever and a class act to boot, and Gram does a great job as an interviewer letting the guest speak without constantly interrupting which too many interviewers do.
Costas is just a schmuck from Commack...same neighborhood as Rosie O' Donnel go figure...
Thanks for watching, Chris! - DF
Costas led the charge to disparage Paterno. This was uncalled for. Paterno by the DA was found to have done nothing wrong and did what he was supposed to do. A football coach is not the college president or a policeman nor was he this man's boss anymore. He didn't have power just because he was Joe Paterno. This was demonizing on the highest level. Costas was never the same in the eyes of the public nor was he in the FRONT of major Sports events again.
@@timsparks1858 wait what? Wasn’t it proven that Paterno knew what was going on for years w Sandusky and yet he did nothing?
@@litedawg No he did not know. When an assistant coach saw it and informed Paterno he took appropriate action with law enforcement. The Grand jury found Paterno innocent. Costas and the DA wanted to make Paterno the scapegoat for all this. He was just a football coach not a cop.
I met Bob, actually more than met him. Anyway, he’s very well aware he sometimes sticks his foot in his mouth, or that he’s can be controversial with his comments. So he’s self aware, and that’s a good thing. He’s also a good dude, and will listen to you, which is another good quality about him.
Dick Enberg is right there with Bob Costas at the top. Very underrated and just as knowledgeable.
Enberg was very good, almost forgotten today. On one of the talk shows in the very early '70s, Cosell cited Dick Enberg as one of the good young sportscasters.
I had the joy of growing up an Angels fan in a Dodger town, Enberg and Scully. Dick Enberg was a gracious and knowledgeable host. He worked so well with Don Drysdale on Angel broadcasts. He always brought out the best in those he worked with.
@@heydudedolfan13 So did I. Dick had no ego, and allowed the players and the game take center stage.
What a wonderful interview. Great questions and beautiful insight by Costas.
I'm 49 years and Bob Costas had been a part of my life for more than forty years. My dad loved and admired him. Any time I see him talking, I stop to listen. Here's hoping to another forty years of Bob Costas.
I miss Bob Costas covering baseball. Such a sad state the game is in right now. America needs a full season of baseball.
Joe Buck is the GOAT 🐐
@@dins5066 ….said no one ever
@@dins5066is that a bad joke? He’s like nails on the chalkboard with anything sports related. Radio guys can easily run circles around him.
Buck only has the name his dad made. He had a good contract and got paid enough to pay his ex wife.
In the 70s, watching mnf was like watching three drunk friends comment on a football game. It was fun.
Accurately depicted
It was a party. And great entertainment, thanks to the genius of Roone Arledge for pairing Cosell with Meredith.
Major League Baseball needs to immediately make Bob Costas the new commissioner of baseball. He loves and understands The Game. Manfred is a tool.
That's a really great idea! he has a passion and love for the game and also a great intellect and thoughtfulness.
Bob Costas would not want that job, even if younger. It's headaches. Rob Manfred is a highly educated attorney. He realizes the downhill direction of baseball. But the problems are intractable. He has to reinvent the game, and then convince 30 owners to consent to the plan. Costas appreciates the tradition and heritage of baseball more than anyone. For it to survive as major, Rob Manfred will have to go against that history. Not easy. Bob Costas knows this too.
Bob Costas wouldn't take it if offered. It's a 24/7 job, with a ton of administrative work, meetings, conference calls, negotiations, reviewing contracts, paperwork, etc., and probably most importantly, dealing with billionaire CEOs. and managing those relationships
When nobody else had the courage to deal with Muhammad Ali, or even call him by his preferred name, Cosell was there. Despite all his other foibles and imperfections, that courage is why I overlook the other stuff.
He was the elite of broadcasting entertainment.
Howard Cosell...arrogance personified and a style all his own. He was enticing and captivating to me.
Cosell and Ali are linked forever, and whenever they appeared together on Wide World of Sports after a key boxing match, or with Wilt Chamberlain in 1967, it was magic.
@@CavanOGrady413 That was pure gold.
Grew up with a lot of sports casters,as I loved sports,to listen to Howard was an honor,the best in the early days of all broadcasters, football, boxing!😁
It is a pleasure to listen to these interviews. Bob Costas has a measured and fine-tuned grasp of the English language and knows how to articulate it.
Great interview of a terrific announcer.
Can't believe Bob Costas is 70. Still looks like he's in his 40's.
New teeth , wig and the knife does wonders
When he was 40 he looked 12
Looks like he had plastic surgery. It’s looks off
Ah..the wonders of plastic surgery
Well if he’s had plastic surgery he looks damn good as compared to women who are 70 they definitely don’t look like they’re in their 40s more power to him
He looks 1000X better here than he does after the facelift. WAY WAY way better!
Howard was Bevis and Butthead of MNF.
I remember back in 6th grade….. Every Tuesday morning, the guys would talk about what Howard said the night before. We always had a good laugh over his goofy antics. Too bad he would be canceled today before the half time. I miss that old drunk. RIP Howard. You were one of a kind.
"Good Evening, this is Howard Co-smell...". That's from "The White Shadow" and I don't remember the rest except that "Howard" was criticizing everyone.
And yes, Howard WAS replaced by John Madden who was smart enough to Head Coach the Raiders to a Super Bowl victory but talked so annoyingly "everyman" for MNF and other Broadcasts that 1. I finally turned the sound down and 2. Eventually I just stopped watching anyway.
Bob 1 of the best of his generation
Graham, I've been watching your interview for years now. You're constantly developing your craft. You are an absolutely fantastic interviewer. 1996 Olympics is my favourite. Thank you for this.
Graham doesn’t care.
Costas does a great imitation of Cosell, I hafta say.
Great interview. Costa's is pure Gold.
Bob Costas is truly in the rarified group of great broadcasters. His Later with Bob Costas show was extraordinarily good. He was the most well rounded and talented communicator/ interviewer of the last 50 years.
Cosell was a great boxing announcer.... the best
Cosell and Ali loved each other
Yes he was. His best sport when he was at the mic.
Mr. Costas has such a way of wording his stories, in the way he admired Mr. Cosell, so do I admire Mr. Costas.
His imitation of Howard Cossell is off the chart good.
What a great impression!
Great. Just great.
What an incredible impersonation of Cossell.
8/10
It was OK. Everybody did Cosell back in the day.
Wow...Mr. Costas is both very intelligent and very articulate. I am impressed.
Love how you edited the end of the clip to make room for the preview thumbs. Very clever and smart. Props to the post-production team.
Listening to Howard annonce boxing, long live a legend!
Wow, this is fantastic.
Respect and enjoy Mr. Costas for his brilliance in communications and investigations!!❤
Hey, Bob, here's a newsflash: Howard Cosell resented everyone.
He liked good writers and some good broadcasters. Red Smith, Robert Lipsyte, Vin Scully and Curt Gowdy, to name a few.
I miss Bob being on network tv, and I'll always remember the imitable Howard
In the very early 1970s people rearranged their lives to watch MNF with Howard Cosell, Dandy Don Meredith and Keith Jackson, who was replaced by Frank Gifford.
I miss Bob doing MLB for NBC Saturday afternoon games.
Likewise. Baseball suffered (IMO) when it left NBC.
NBA on NBC, too. Nobody can tell a story quite like Bob.
Costas has always been a class act. One of the greats.
Howard Cosell is the GOAT.
Bob Costas is apart of so many amazing memories
Not "apart"; a part.
AWESOME!
As a young Bob Costas finest work was on the Jack Carney show on KMOX, who owned the airwaves in the St. Louis Metro. Jack, Ms. Blue and young handsome Bobby Costas (as Jack Carney described him) would do skits about the Adventures of Tiki Jack. It was hilarious . He also learned a lot for the HOF Jack Buck. OMG that was a long time ago.
Cosell did real sports reporting, got the back stories on athletes
He was a NYC lawyer (a profession he hated) in a prior life, and that training helped him in his interviews and reporting. I thought his interviews were very good.
@@jamesanthony5681 he wrote some good books on sports too
@@michaelsix9684 I read two or three of them.
Wow! Very impressive.
Bob Costas is underrated as hell
Ur being sarcastic right with that underrated comment?? Or is underrated the trendy thing to say on UA-cam nowadays?? If not all due respect ur underrated comment has to be one of the dumbest comment in the history of UA-cam especially with this iconic man and all of his accomplishments
This man has 28 emmys .main primetime studio host to 12 olympics . Main studio host to super bowls . NBA finals . World series u name it but of course u had to know all that because underrated has got to be a trendy thing to say on UA-cam nowadays
Cosell was great. Couldn’t wait for his lines. Bob Costas has done well too. One thing about Bob’s story…..he skipped about 10 years. He went from a 31 year old just meeting Cosell during the Phillies/Orioles 1983 to about 1993…or 95. A phone with Cosell…and dies shortly after. There had to be interactions in between.
Cosell essentially retired for good in 1985, never to broadcast again, so it is possible.
Great interview, Nice to see Costas tipping his hat to predecessor
I worked at ABC News in New York when Cosell was at his zenith. I recall walking behind him down the street when we both coincidentally ended up at the same deli for lunch. This was at the Central Park West studios. Cosell couldn't take even one step down the sidewalk without cabbies, construction workers, people of all sorts yelling greetings, obscenities, or simply making noises at him. I thought how horrible it must be to be him. But he seemed to enjoy it. I worked with his daughter, Hilary, who also worked at ABC. Hilary was deeply embarrassed by him. Or was at the time -- she later produced one of his broadcasts. So, I must have known her at a low point in her relationship with him. Nonetheless, it wouldn't be too strong to say that she seemed to hate him when I knew her. I certainly couldn't talk to her about him. My feeling was that if I said anything at all about him in her presence, she would probably have avoided me in the future. So Howard Cosell, as a topic of conversation, was NOT allowed when Hilary was around.
That's funny. Of course, she was embarrassed. I bet she admired him, though
Interesting. It couldn't have been easy for her with that famous last name. Howard did like the attention, good or bad it seemed from reading his books. His wife (Emmy?) traveled with him everywhere, whether he was doing a boxing match in Los Angeles or London. She seemed to be his rock and his greatest supporter.
From all I have heard about Howard Cosell, most people really did not know the actual person, if there was an actual person, most people knew the persona of Howard Cosell, that was it.
Thanks for sharing. Dads typically go from rock star status to embarrassing in their daughter’s eyes. That’s life. Did she ever grow to see him differently?
that's a pretty amazing Cosell interpretation!
Bob not only uses five dollar words, but he uses them effectively and without hesitation. A fantastic subject for an interview.
Bob sporting Howard's tup. Wig master to Bob, "What kind of cat are we looking for?" Bob: "Give me the Cosell."
Fake hair? Didn't know that.
Yeah right
Cosell was the greatest. Along with Dandy Don ("Turn off the lights, the party's over") they made MNF a must-watch event. Yeah, like all of us he could be a jerk at times but hey, so could most of us.
Cosell came across as a dick because he at times would look at people who less educated than him!! That's one of the reasons why he detested former athletes becoming broadcasters because he felt that they were taking away jobs from people who has paid their dues & weren't afforded that opportunity.
@@wilnerolivier7971 Cosell would occasionally critique others (e.g. Johnny Carson) in the use of English grammar, when in fact he didn't know what he was talking about.
I can still hear that 70s and 80s Monday night music playing. It got your blood pumping You kicked back with a beer after A Hard Day's work. And enjoyed some Gridiron tough guy sport. Before you had to go back to bed wake up in the morning and do it all over again at the factory. Monday Night football was the one thing on Monday you looked forward too
Costas Cosell impression is so good
A diamond on the playing field of youtube.
I love watching Bob Costas and everything he has done. To me he has been one of the greatest broadcasters to come along since Jim McKay, and many others before him. While he may have looked like a kid, he was wise beyond his years and I love him speaking with humility and how the great ones also feel about him.
Bob Costas gracious and eloquent during the interview.
The Howard Cosell story is funny as hell. He loved you
I remember watching MNF in the 70's as a 7 or 8 year old. Especially the highlights at halftime. Then, in my late teens and 20's Chris Berman and Tom Jackson. Great stuff.
I am not a big sports guy...but I always liked and respected Bob Costas.
Great stuff! Costas does Cosell as good as anyone.
Costas is an incredibly able, intelligent broadcaster, who could do play-by-play in any number of sports as well as he could host. Cosell, by contrast, was mostly a self-promoting carnival barker. His resentment of his fellow broadcasters, as well as of most of the athletes he covered, was unmistakable on the air. It's too bad, because he was a smart guy who had some strong opinions that were not frivolous, but he wrapped himself in a cloak of bluster that turned his on-air presence into an annoying joke that we grew tired of.
I never grew tired of him, in fact I loved him on MNF and his boxing broadcasts.
Cosell certainly had his faults- his ego was on overdrive and felt he was always the smartest guy in the room, but to dismiss him as a "carnival barker" is to do the man a disservice. He was always relevant, always interesting and in fact was one of the most dominant TV personalities throughout the late 60's thru the early 80's. His Monday Night Football telecasts and halftime highlights were unparalleled. And he also took up noble causes in sports, especially as pertained to the minority athlete. Cosell was must see TV- and Costas, though certainly talented, is absolutely not.
@@frankgualtieri7243Cosell was a very smart man. Costas, not so much.
Sure! he jumped the shark, although he did his best to make things better and for that he should be applauded.
When I was a kid I didn't understand why my Dad and his buddies hated Cosell. Now when I listen to his commentary on old videos I understand.
1:57 that's THE best Howard Cosell impersonation ever.
Thought I was a kid in the 70s again!
In the late 1980's and early 90's, I contributed material to the popular Jim Healy radio show on KMPC in Los Angeles. Jim constantly savaged Cosell, which infuriated Howard no end!
might be the best Cosell impression ever; listen to how he hits the word "child"
Costas is one of those guys who you could never stop listening to an interview with him. His knowledge of sports history is among the best ever. He's lost his fastball in the booth but in this setting he still has the interview chops. McKay was the best in any event he covered and how he handled the terrorist story in Munich is still top notch all these years later. Cosell was a man with a lot of ego but at the end of his life he was just a sad and bitter man. To me, Jim McKay would have been the guy in the emeritus role in sports, the man was without peer in sports TV.
I was over Costas 25 years ago...but l loved him in the 80s
Great mimic
Cosell resented EVERYBODY.
I hated it when Howard left Monday Night Football. While so many people were happy, those that hated him, the thing I loved about Howard was, he was fun to hate. He was the bad guy that you wanted to always yell, shut the F up. However, that’s what was fun about it; he was antagonistic, and he was unlikable, and he was the best villain in sports, and without a villain, who needs a hero.
He was a racist
Remember "look at the monkey run"
Jim McKay & Don Merideth, Special moments listening to Monday Night Football & Wide World of Sports!! The younger generations should watch what has become the meaning of true broadcasting.
Howard will always be one of my favorites!!
I met Bob Costas, back in 92? Seemed like a cool guy. I enjoyed meeting him.
Cosell and Meredith are still the best that ever did a football game.
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Elroy.. (Jetsons) That's who we always likened the boy like never aging looks of Bob Costas, always the professional, and here he is now 69 years old. He also reminds me of another who long had unusually prolonged kid like looks, Bruce Timm (61) of famed Batman the animated series.
I thought that Howard Costello was very bombastic, but entertaining. Bob Costas has always been well informed, balanced, and a great sportscaster
Howard Cosell RESENTED HIMSELF
Bob Costas saved me from a very bad date. Very grateful for him
I can believe Bob Costas looked 15 at age 25 because now he looks like 52 and he's 69! Wow, had to look that up.
I still miss Monday Night Football, a lot.
Sometimes I wonder if the nostalgia is for the show that was on TV, or what was happening in my personal life at the time.
I was dating a very pretty lady. We even wound up married--for a time. 😅
And, at a local bar in my small Ohio hometown, they served free hotdogs and free pizza at halftime. It was great!
Like Monday Night Football, the bar and the mall that housed are gone, too. Such is progress.
But, taking another look here, I realize that the Monday show gave me a much-needed way to blot out the Monday night blues. Those were real for me--the start of a new work week was a downer. The games on TV eased the pain.
I think Bob Costas is one of a kind when it comes to sportscasters. I welcome his personal insights into any sport, be it the NFL, MLB, or the Olympics. He's not only knowledgeable. He's listenable, polite, and grammar-perfect. And, he doesn't try to outshine those he's describing.
I've tried several times to watch Sunday Night Football with the same enthusiasm I once had for the Monday night version. And, it's just not there for me. Not even close.
I didn't know Howard C was a problematic drinker. If so, although flawed, sometimes the flaws I saw were what made him such fun.
I'll always remember that while other interviewers got irritated at the formidable Muhammad Ali, Howard C would fearlessly confront him, and soon have him laughing. That alone earned him a gold badge among sportscasters in my opinion.
Great work, Bob Costas!