Great video. Absolutely personified the times of the early 70s and TV. You had to understand how much people were divided on Cosell. I remember it so well. People either loved listening to him or would mute the volume on TV when he announced games. He was that controversial as an announcer. Really enjoyed this nostalgia. And yes, it's so true. I remember watching MNF at halftime just to catch the highlights of Sunday's game. We didn't have ESPN or highlights like we do all day today...but yes, in any era, sending death threats was considered absolutely crossing the line of the highest level.
@@nicoleknight9412 Boxing especially. That was a sport he knew very well. Football, he was outstanding with knowing culture, and politic aspects of the sport, and it's nuances. His short comings were when he would sometimes jump into Frank or Don's domain, thinking he could explain the expertise of trap blocking. Stay in your lane Howard.
Cosell didn't know squat about boxing and I haven't been too impressed with him on football, either. I admit he was before my time and I'm only watching him in retrospect, but he and Curt Gowdy (who was EVERYWHERE in the '70s but to me is like listening to paint dry) are proof that it wasn't always better in the Good Ol' Days. I'm not even going to get into Cosell as a baseball announcer--just a complete embarrassment. As Jimmy Cannon put it: "Here's a guy who changed his name and put on a toupee, and tries to convince the world that he tells it like it is."
@@matthewconnors1011 Same here, I didn't live in Pittsburgh but was a fan of all the black and gold. In '79 my mom actually let me stay home from school to watch the day game during the NLCS. That's the only reason she isn't "in a home" (the bad one we saw on tv")
Back then Woody Allen made a movie called 'Sleeper,' about a guy (played by himself) who woke up decades or centuries later (I forget exactly), and historians were trying to figure out stuff about American culture. They showed him a clip of Howard Cosell, and he said, "If anybody was found guilty of great crimes, they were locked in a room and forced to watch this."
Thankfully, the NFL now has new rules in place that have drastically reduced, if not eliminated such fan incidents. The NFL at the time sent a very strongly worded message to Miami Dolphins team ownership to keep fans from entering the field. In the next home game in the Orange Bowl, mounted police officers on horseback were positioned all along the sidelines and end zones. I was lucky enough to attend every home that magical year that remains the only modern era perfect season by an NFL ream.
@@alexanderpease4764 In those days each team played 14 total games, including 7 home games. I went to all 9 games, including the 2 home playoff games. In future, I went to a handful of games each season but never again a full season of home games. One of my Dad’s customers used to give them to him for free! The Orange Bowl deteriorated in later years, but it sure was iconic!
Yeah, drop dead was really common in the 70's. People saying they would "kill you" if you did or said whatever was also common and not taken literally (probably because there weren't daily examples on tv of lunatics shooting up malls, schools, workplaces and parties)
I seem to recall for halftime highlights, ABC did not necessarily choose the best games or those with the most playoff implications. They wanted to promote the following week's MNF game. So two of the highlighted games featured teams playing then.
When I saw the Westbrook freakout live the sound was muted so I rewound and listened. All I can hear in my head every time I see it is Jim Mora, but he's saying "Popcorn? Don't talk about popcorn!"
You, sir, are a machine. I don’t know how you do it but you manage to make every single story interesting … even ones I begrudgingly select the video. Well done.
I loved the halftime highlights when i was a kid in the late 70's. We didnt have cable and the local news would show a few highlights. When my family got cable in OCT, 1981, i stopped watching the halftime highlights and started watching Inside the NFL on HBO.
Monday Night Football halftime highlights bias was around for a long time. In 1981 when the 49ers absolutely killed the Cowboys in week 6, MNF the following night didn't even show that game's highlights at all.
In 1974, Howard interviewed John Lennon at halftime of an Monday night game. They got along wonderfully during that chat, where John openly said he did not understand American football, but was having a great time. I prefer to remember that fun and cheerful moment.
"...how did people watch sports highlights back then?" Obsessively! As a kid I absolutely planned my life around catching nightly highlights and the weekly NFL recap shows. Those NFL Films shows were sources of pure joy. Once we had a VCR my life became so much simpler but also a little less magical. A perfect expression of the effect technology has on humanity.
You really didn't have much coverage. NFL films was about it. 1976 vhs was the year VCRS came out, Frank Gorshin I think did the first commercials from what I remember. Most folks wouldn't pay the price about 1,280 or about 4600 today allowing for inflation. Sports was barely 5 minutes usually at 11pm. Cosels half time highlights was a big deal because nfl films wouldn't have their weekly show until saturday the next week.
You really didn't have much coverage. NFL films was about it. 1976 vhs was the year VCRS came out, Frank Gorshin I think did the first commercials from what I remember. Most folks wouldn't pay the price about 1,280 or about 4600 today allowing for inflation. Sports was barely 5 minutes usually at 11pm. Cosels half time highlights was a big deal because nfl films wouldn't have their weekly show until saturday the next week.
@@abcall-timesboxingchanneln7076 I loved having the NFL films shows on Saturday. They aired really late on Saturday night (really Sunday morning) where I lived so I would watch those, go to bed, dream about football and wake up for the pregame shows. Thank God my family wasn't religious (yes, I intended the irony there)... so no church to screw up my Sunday
Your channel is awesome. I'm a self proclaimed sports encyclopedia, but your videos some of the topics I never knew existed. I had no idea the St. Louis Cardinals hosted 2 thanksgiving games in the 70's. And these videos are fascinating. Some of the topics I heard about but had no idea what the back story was and it's awesome. I've subscribed to your channel and I can't wait to watch all your videos. Keep up the great work.
Early 70's I was like 5 years old when this happened so not really watching MNF. From about 77 or so I never missed it. Cosell and the halftime highlights were something I loved.The music, and his dramatic presentation made highlights epic.
Howard Cosel HATED the Dolphins after he was caught in their hotel hallway by Larry Czonka. He ripped the toupee off Howard's head, and started throwing it like a frisbee to his teammates. LOL.
He did a story from Miami training camp one year and there's pics of HC Don Shula and Cosell in a full Dolphins uniform with number 7 on it (guessing for the channel number ABC was on in New York).
Howard hated us! Everyone knew it. 😂 The “Drop Dead” comment, was a simple request. The OB was in the heart of Little Havana and we loved to hate Howard. We had a chip on our shoulders and the Dolphins gave The City of Miami and south Florida in general a sense of pride. I was ten years of age at the time and it was a wonderful time, one which I will never forget! The Perfect Season!!! The truth is, we loved Howard’s halftime reports. Howard Cassel was a master doing them.
No, Howard was an attorney and quite intelligent.Stephen A. Is just a blowhard. Howard does earn bonus points for being sloshed during broadcasts however, something Stephen A. hasn’t done.
I was lucky to be at that jet's game as a kid i still remember walking in the orange bowl with my dad and brother i had never seen so many people in my life what a feeling
The interesting thing about the 1972 Dolphins was the fact that Bob Griese broke his leg in the fourth game of the season and Earl Morrall led them to a 14-0 record and two playoff wins before Don Shula decided to play Griese in the Super Bowl in which he threw only seven passes the whole game.
Don Shula was a total asshat for doing that, the Dolphins were a run-first team, anyway, so, it already didn't matter who the QB was. He later exacerbated that by claiming that Earl Morrall, "never got the credit he deserved," for that season. Yeah, he didn't, because you decided Bob Griese deserved to play again, for, "reasons," really stupid. Plus, you, alienated, Csonka, Kiick, and, Warfield, to jump ship, for a doomed league. Oh, and, your, notorious, waterless, three-a-days, would, swiftly, get you blackballed currently. Not to mention he lost a SB to Joe Namath, and, never won a SB with Dan Marino. That same team later beat the Cowboys in the SB, but, your Dolphins couldn't. The only coach who comes even remotely close to him, as far as underachievement goes, is Tom Landry, sad, it just is.
@@topJimmyP1984 Two SBs, not even as many as Joe Gibbs, plus, he, also, lost a SB to the pathetic 1970 Colts really needed more Championships, that's how.
Back in those days some people were so stupid they would write to the editor of the tv magazine blaming them if a show got cancelled or had it's time slot moved.
Another story I had never heard about. Excellent stuff, as always. Those fans running onto the field should've been spiked into the ground by security. Seriously, there is no excuse for such idiotic behavior
I remember that time...it was clear that someone in upper NFL management didnt want the Dolphins to get much acclaim. The fans may have overreacted...but the question of who set this policy against Miami was never given.
Yeah, one of three Dolphins players, (including, two HOFers), who got so, fed up with Don Shula, they left for a league that they had to know was, probably, doomed.
I was born in the ‘70s and while I don’t remember highlight options being quite this limited, the situation was only marginally better in the ‘80s and at least early ‘90s. Most of all, simply keeping up with the score of a game in progress was incredibly difficult compared to today. Young’uns don’t know just how good they’ve got it in this regard today, though this video might give them some idea.
Since you were born in the '70s you wouldn't remember. The concept of "instant reply" was still in its infancy. A sportscaster named Warner Wolf became a sensation by having his local four or five minute section of a local newscast loaded with highlights ("Let's go to the videotape!") of games played from throughout the country on the same day -- and that might have been in 1977 or '78. It seemed almost as amazing as someone going to the moon. While Cosell got lot of death threats over the MNF highlights, he'd got plenty of bigoted hate mail over the years.
I love your videos but please increase their volume. I have to turn the volume up way higher than everything else on youtube and then the commercials blow my eardrums after them. Thank you for that.
as A Dolphin fan since 1966 your presentation of this issue is spot on. You either liked or hated Cosell, and most vocal fans hated him. Interestingly, most everyone loved Don Meredith, so it was sort of a bad guy, good guy presentation by ABC. The only comment I take exception to was that the Dolphins were the laughingstock of the NFL. For their first three years of existence they steadily improved and were viewed as a decent team. Not great, but competitive at times. 69 was the year it fell back, but by then the Dolphins already had Griese, Czonka, Kiick, and others on their roster that were to become all stars and HOF members. The issue wasn’t talent, but the proper coaching to put the pieces together. Shula provided this as you noted.
Remember, vietnam was still happening in 1972. Some of the luckier folks in america who didn't have to fight in the war got super pissed at something as little as this
I remember a Monday Night game either in the early or mid-1980s where the Redskins were playing, but I don’t remember who, I think maybe Dallas. With Art Monk out with injury, the Redskins had replaced him with a diminutive receiver named Alvin Garret, completing their lineup of tiny receivers they named “The Smurfs”. Joe Theisman hit Garret with a short pass across the middle which he turned into a huge gain by juking a couple of tacklers. Cosell said something like “…and that little monkey…” referring to Garret. It just so happened that Alvin was an African American player. That erupted into accusations of racism because Cosell compared Garret to a monkey. Howard came out the following week apologizing for his poor choice of words. He insisted that he in no way was comparing Alvin to a monkey based on his appearance, but rather based on his size and crazy moves, like a little spider monkey. I believed Howard. Even at the time he made the statement, I didn’t think it was racist. That never entered my mind until some PC idiots, who always look for something to offend them, had quickly made that association. I can’t imagine how much worse that would have went over today with all of the soyboys and blue-haired androgynous individuals just looking to be butt-hurt over something? Funny how these individuals are typically white, but seem to find more offense in everything than people of color do? It’s like, “you’re too stupid to know when you’ve been insulted, so I’m going to get offended for you and let you know when you should be upset…”, making them the worst racist of all because they think people of color are too dumb to know when they’ve been insulted. Anyway, that was one of the bigger scandals I can remember from Monday Night Football that didn’t have anything to do with the actual game, just a bunch of early Soyboys who were ahead of the curve in the 1980s. There would have been a far louder cry if that happened more recently, but it didn’t go by unnoticed even in the 1980s and would have most likely resulted in Cosell’s immediate termination today, but was just a bump in the road back then.
I don't remember relying on Monday Night Football to keep me up-to-date on what happened in the NFL on Sunday (although, I do remember watching MNF back then). I do remember going out to our front porch every Monday morning and picking up this thing we called a "newspaper". Then I would go to this thing we called a "sports section". Then I read articles about the Sunday games and looked at box scores. All without the help of the internet. Don't get me wrong. I love having access to more sports info now (to a point), but it's not like MNF was the only way to find out what was going on in the NFL.
Channel 10 had film of Cosell confronting Sportscaster Joe Grogan on the concourse atMIA crying like little girl "Stay way from me your trying to get me klled" I still have a horrible hankie somewhere.
You obviously haven't heard about the Minnesota Vikings fans that were infuriated at MNF. hey threatened to serve him pie with no ice cream topping and one restaurant served him a jello salad without the little marshmallows. Howard wrote in his memoirs that he never feared so much for his life.
I know someone who would turn the volume down on the TV and listen to the radio because he couldn't stand Howard Cosell. I, too, spent some time saying:"Shutup, Howard." I didn't like him either.
6:16 Howard Cosell was not a play-by-play announcer. (I think Keith Jackson or maybe Frank in '72?) He was a color commentator. Color? Check out his jacket. Comments? He was a 'tator - fur sure. Luv your stuff! Long-time Gator and Dolphin-fan and I didn't know about this story
I don't remember this but I was a teen back then and all the local games were blacked out so we had to listen to the games on WIOD AM radio. I can understand the fans frustrations. I remember in the 90's during a Miami MNF, the team members of the 1972 perfect season were having a special presentation with Shula during the halftime and ABC didn't broadcast it!! Instead, they showed some stupid video about some kid playing golf that wasn't even football related!! I wanted to see the 72 Dolphins!! That kid was Tiger Woods. 🤣😂🤣
I am a fins fan from 1966 and can tell you the Dolphins coverage in 1972 was a vast improvement over any previous year. I grew up outside Washington DC and remember seeing most Dolphin games in 1972 on NBC. Plus at least the Viking game on CBS. So readers should not get the opinion that The Dolphins were ignored that year. They received plenty of exposure. The issue here appears to be the blackout that caused fans in Miami to miss seeing the games. But did not the local press fill in the gap?
Cosell if the Duct Tapers of Oakland ( now Vegas ) lost there was never a highlight or mention. Denver hated him weekly, especially when Broncos embarrassed his Duct Tapers.
Cover the Eli Herring story guy was solid 1st-3rd round pick in the draft but told teams not to draft him due to his mormon beliefs but the raiders picked him anyway and offered him $500k and sent other mormons to sway him
You forget that Cosell was the most hated man in Football and maybe in all sports, at this time! Bars around the country would have contests where the winner would get to throw a brick at a TV during Cosells half-time show. It was a popular activity among football fans!
Larry King was travelling with Jimmy the Green to California. Jimmy said the Redskins have faced better competition and told Larry "You're still the AFL" Larry told Jimmy "You're making a big mistake" Larry war right.
@@JerichoMile4 Redskins were favored by 2 on Tuesday but it went to 2.5 a few hours later. Game day it was redskins -2 as per larry merchant. But george solomon of the Washington post wrote that the redskins were -3 on game day. Finally if u go with wiki which can be shaky, they had Washington-1.
Media has always been skewing it's coverage in ways that it thinks improves it's ratings. So it is not surprising the Jets got better coverage than the Dolphins. I think it is that way with the umpiring in professional sports. They are there to make money and if a little team losing to a big team is the way to make money, that's what will happen. I have used that logic to explain a lot of strange things in sports and when you apply that logic, they don't seem strange at all.
Neither Tampa Bay nor Kansas City are big markets. They went to the Super Bowl last year, are probably the two favorites in their respective conferences to go back, and the two New York teams are complete messes. I don't buy it.
I'm convinced that antisemitism is at root of ao much hate people had for Cosell, including this incident. Yeah he was a prick quite often but it doesn't erase anti-Jewish bigotry
This would be the one time context isn’t required. They are the 72 Dolphins. If you are a football fan, then you know whom they are. Ima Bears fan, not dolphins fan
It didn't help that Shula offered a free baked potato with 'The Works' at his steakhouse for anyone who came in with proof of having submitted a death threat to Cosell...lol
He, probably, had plenty of water to offer, seeing that his players got none of it at practice, lucky, for him there was no NFLPA, or, his career's just terminated.
@@matthewdaley746 Wow. That's dangerous as heck. I remember back when I played football in high school in the late 80s there was a player for the Minnesota Vikings who had died at a summer practice from heat exhaustion. You better believe that had an impact on our coaches during our football camp and our Two-a-days practices in the August heat. We took many water breaks. Many. They weren't going to have one of us collapse on their watch.
@@diaz5292 Korey Stringer, his gold-digger wife sued the Vikings, and, later the NFL, Bear Bryant did that in training, he was the best-dressed dictator ever to coach.
@@matthewdaley746 Right. Well you can't blame her for doing so. Coaches need to be aware of that danger when they have the team out there practicing in the summer heat. So, they should have been forced to pay for their mistake. And ya I've seen a movie about Bear Bryant where withholding water was a thing at his practices. That's just stupid. He got lucky.if none of em died. Especially in that Alabama summer heat. Good Lord. What an idiot. It's an unnecessary risk. We won the State Championship my senior year at the Pontiac Silverdome. So it certainly did not negatively impact us to take frequent water breaks. 👍
@@diaz5292 Actually, I do blame her for suing the NFL, the owner gave her more than enough to live on, and, the second suit was pure greed. Bear Bryant's training actually was in Texas, which is, somehow, even worse, considering. The fact of the matter is, his success meant these things simply got overlooked.
😂 and they say Steelers fans are crazy! Maybe 🤔 they just wanted noticed, but that’s unbelievable. Just write a bunch of complaints. I did it to CBS before because I couldn’t stand Don Crickey anymore. They responded too!
I miss when QBs used to line up under center, 3 or 5 step drop back. Now every play is in shotgun formation. Old school NFL was so much better than the garbage that they play today. The uniforms, formations, players, coaches, fans, coverage, announcers, highlights.... everything was just better in the 70s and 80s. I haven't watched a game in 4 years and I can honestly say I don't miss the NFL at all.
I always want to see a player layout some schmuck who thinks he's cool running on to the field during a game. Rob Ray of the Buffalo Sabres was on the bench when some idiot went on to the ice to challenge Razor. Rob held him down and beat the crap out of him.
@@tygrkhat4087 If you've never seen the Curtis incident, you owe it to yourself to look that one up. The fan guy was drunk enough that he was laughing afterwards, but when he sobered up he found himself in TRACTION in a hospital. I mean, it was an EPIC boss-level waylaying.
@@richardadams4928 I have seen it. Tickets to the game, $15; Two beers and two dogs, $12; seeing a drunken idiot put in his place by a guy nicknamed "Mad Dog," priceless. It was the 70s, so those are 70s prices.
I have to say this this channel is so good that can you imagine that if the NFL was in conjunction with this channel and they gave him full access to all their old footage just how many followers this channel would have this is a great Channel and I think that politics and people being butthurt over footage that nobody's even watching anyway That #officialJaguarGator9 could really bring the footage back to life with his great stories and his beautiful contacts I love this channel
I remember when the Iowa Hawkeyes beat USC Trojans in the holiday bowl in 2019, Reggie Bush, and Matt Leinart would not say anything about iowa winning it was all how the future of USC looked bad because they lost to iowa. Actually was entertaining to watch them struggle to talk about what they just saw
Ah, those halcyon days when the Dolphins were good enough to make their fans actually care! I say this as a Dolphins fan. I’m so beaten down by how terrible and mismanaged the Dolphins have been for 20+ years that I just don’t get excited about much anymore.
@@reddogdude Joe Robbie was, also, a lobbyist for Big Tobacco who tried to halt anti-tobacco advertising, and, Don Shula wasted Dan Marino by not getting a RB.
I'll defer to you about Robbie's lobbying activities, @@matthewdaley746, I know absolutely zero about that. What I was referring to was that Joe Robbie and his son Tim (who ran the team for about 4 years after Joe died), put crappy teams around Dan Marino and they kept Don Shula around way too long (Shula probably should have been let go after the '88 season). Without Marino, those Dolphins teams in the late 80s and 90s would have been as bad as they were from 2002 to 2019.
@@reddogdude Just repeating what I've read, imagine Dan Marino with the Steelers, Wayne Huizenga would have dumped Don Shula faster were it not for the wins record.
Howard was so obnoxious. You should have seen the treatment he got in Seattle! One last note I recall MNF was on a delay in the early days if you lived on the west coast like I did!
Howard Cosell was not well liked in many areas of the country. I remember when a bar in Denver was selling raffle tickets to win the lucky brick that the proud winner could throw into a television on a Monday Night Football broadcast.
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@@dapumpking7202 Yup. Love this channel but he needs to turn up the volume.
I never miss one video.Love the stories.
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Great video. Absolutely personified the times of the early 70s and TV. You had to understand how much people were divided on Cosell. I remember it so well. People either loved listening to him or would mute the volume on TV when he announced games. He was that controversial as an announcer. Really enjoyed this nostalgia. And yes, it's so true. I remember watching MNF at halftime just to catch the highlights of Sunday's game. We didn't have ESPN or highlights like we do all day today...but yes, in any era, sending death threats was considered absolutely crossing the line of the highest level.
I was about to post much the same point. Illogical though it was to blame Cosell, his general polarizing nature probably had a LOT to do with it.
Despite it all, his knowledge of sports, especially football and boxing, was impeccable .
@@nicoleknight9412 Boxing especially. That was a sport he knew very well. Football, he was outstanding with knowing culture, and politic aspects of the sport, and it's nuances. His short comings were when he would sometimes jump into Frank or Don's domain, thinking he could explain the expertise of trap blocking. Stay in your lane Howard.
My dad hated his calling RBIs, ribees.
Cosell didn't know squat about boxing and I haven't been too impressed with him on football, either. I admit he was before my time and I'm only watching him in retrospect, but he and Curt Gowdy (who was EVERYWHERE in the '70s but to me is like listening to paint dry) are proof that it wasn't always better in the Good Ol' Days. I'm not even going to get into Cosell as a baseball announcer--just a complete embarrassment.
As Jimmy Cannon put it: "Here's a guy who changed his name and put on a toupee, and tries to convince the world that he tells it like it is."
My bedtime on Mondays in the fall was "after the halftime highlights."
If the Steelers were playing, it was after the game.
Today I can't stay awake before the end of the first quarter.
@@matthewconnors1011 Same here, I didn't live in Pittsburgh but was a fan of all the black and gold. In '79 my mom actually let me stay home from school to watch the day game during the NLCS. That's the only reason she isn't "in a home" (the bad one we saw on tv")
Yes, mine as well...
Dad would let me stay up till halftime for the highlights but I almost always fell asleep🤣
Meh. I used to send death threats to Cosell every week, and I was only 8.
Back then Woody Allen made a movie called 'Sleeper,' about a guy (played by himself) who woke up decades or centuries later (I forget exactly), and historians were trying to figure out stuff about American culture. They showed him a clip of Howard Cosell, and he said, "If anybody was found guilty of great crimes, they were locked in a room and forced to watch this."
Yep... Absolutely love Woody Allen.
Back in the day EVERYBODY did a How-ward Co-sell impersonation..
Billy Crystal wins for me.
I'm so glad that I immediately chose D, that validates that I'm a true Dolphins fan! Fins Up
You’re also a crazy person lol
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Thankfully, the NFL now has new rules in place that have drastically reduced, if not eliminated such fan incidents. The NFL at the time sent a very strongly worded message to Miami Dolphins team ownership to keep fans from entering the field. In the next home game in the Orange Bowl, mounted police officers on horseback were positioned all along the sidelines and end zones. I was lucky enough to attend every home that magical year that remains the only modern era perfect season by an NFL ream.
Did you ever go to another full season of home games?
@@alexanderpease4764 In those days each team played 14 total games, including 7 home games. I went to all 9 games, including the 2 home playoff games. In future, I went to a handful of games each season but never again a full season of home games. One of my Dad’s customers used to give them to him for free! The Orange Bowl deteriorated in later years, but it sure was iconic!
7:40 "Drop dead" is just a figure of speech. 'Don't show up at the stadium' while not a direct threat, it IS more ominous.
First he said "Fuck you." Then he got rude.
Yeah, drop dead was really common in the 70's. People saying they would "kill you" if you did or said whatever was also common and not taken literally (probably because there weren't daily examples on tv of lunatics shooting up malls, schools, workplaces and parties)
I seem to recall for halftime highlights, ABC did not necessarily choose the best games or those with the most playoff implications. They wanted to promote the following week's MNF game. So two of the highlighted games featured teams playing then.
No question. Marketing strategy was always at work.
At least they didn't throw a water bottle or dump popcorn on him That would be tragic😔
When I saw the Westbrook freakout live the sound was muted so I rewound and listened. All I can hear in my head every time I see it is Jim Mora, but he's saying "Popcorn? Don't talk about popcorn!"
Have to say I'm impressed by the different types of NFL content your channel produces. Great stuff!
You, sir, are a machine. I don’t know how you do it but you manage to make every single story interesting … even ones I begrudgingly select the video. Well done.
Even the year before Cosell had to state that the games were chosen by ABC management.
Also, love the return of the Millionaire question!
Two words. Roone Arledge.
I loved the halftime highlights when i was a kid in the late 70's. We didnt have cable and the local news would show a few highlights. When my family got cable in OCT, 1981, i stopped watching the halftime highlights and started watching Inside the NFL on HBO.
This video makes a great point. No one should EVER send death threats to an announcer. Instead, death threats should be directed toward the producer.
It's so hard to binge watch your channel when you're constantly uploading. I think I've found my new favourite channel
Monday Night Football halftime highlights bias was around for a long time. In 1981 when the 49ers absolutely killed the Cowboys in week 6, MNF the following night didn't even show that game's highlights at all.
You should do December 8th 1980 Patriots vs dolphins where Howard cosell announces John Lennon's death
That was a dark day.
In 1974, Howard interviewed John Lennon at halftime of an Monday night game. They got along wonderfully during that chat, where John openly said he did not understand American football, but was having a great time.
I prefer to remember that fun and cheerful moment.
"...how did people watch sports highlights back then?"
Obsessively! As a kid I absolutely planned my life around catching nightly highlights and the weekly NFL recap shows. Those NFL Films shows were sources of pure joy. Once we had a VCR my life became so much simpler but also a little less magical. A perfect expression of the effect technology has on humanity.
You really didn't have much coverage. NFL films was about it. 1976 vhs was the year VCRS came out, Frank Gorshin I think did the first commercials from what I remember. Most folks wouldn't pay the price about 1,280 or about 4600 today allowing for inflation. Sports was barely 5 minutes usually at 11pm. Cosels half time highlights was a big deal because nfl films wouldn't have their weekly show until saturday the next week.
You really didn't have much coverage. NFL films was about it. 1976 vhs was the year VCRS came out, Frank Gorshin I think did the first commercials from what I remember. Most folks wouldn't pay the price about 1,280 or about 4600 today allowing for inflation. Sports was barely 5 minutes usually at 11pm. Cosels half time highlights was a big deal because nfl films wouldn't have their weekly show until saturday the next week.
@@abcall-timesboxingchanneln7076 I loved having the NFL films shows on Saturday. They aired really late on Saturday night (really Sunday morning) where I lived so I would watch those, go to bed, dream about football and wake up for the pregame shows. Thank God my family wasn't religious (yes, I intended the irony there)... so no church to screw up my Sunday
I used to watch The George Michael Sports Machine every week during the NFL season just to see a few highlights.
Your channel is awesome. I'm a self proclaimed sports encyclopedia, but your videos some of the topics I never knew existed. I had no idea the St. Louis Cardinals hosted 2 thanksgiving games in the 70's. And these videos are fascinating. Some of the topics I heard about but had no idea what the back story was and it's awesome. I've subscribed to your channel and I can't wait to watch all your videos. Keep up the great work.
Early 70's I was like 5 years old when this happened so not really watching MNF. From about 77 or so I never missed it. Cosell and the halftime highlights were something I loved.The music, and his dramatic presentation made highlights epic.
i had the orange and teal nerf football, it was perfect.
I had purple
Yes! Yes, it was.
That's the Hurricanes colors. The Phins wear aquamarine and orange.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Howard Cosel HATED the Dolphins after he was caught in their hotel hallway by Larry Czonka. He ripped the toupee off Howard's head, and started throwing it like a frisbee to his teammates. LOL.
lol
He did a story from Miami training camp one year and there's pics of HC Don Shula and Cosell in a full Dolphins uniform with number 7 on it (guessing for the channel number ABC was on in New York).
Howard didn't know how the world would be 50 years later. This is high entertainment these days and quite mild.
Howard hated us! Everyone knew it. 😂
The “Drop Dead” comment, was a simple request. The OB was in the heart of Little Havana and we loved to hate Howard. We had a chip on our shoulders and the Dolphins gave The City of Miami and south Florida in general a sense of pride. I was ten years of age at the time and it was a wonderful time, one which I will never forget! The Perfect Season!!!
The truth is, we loved Howard’s halftime reports. Howard Cassel was a master doing them.
Loved the halftime highlights! And NFL films
This just in: Florida man sends death threats to Howard Cosell due to "disrespect" for Dolphins.
My dad never could stand Howard Cosell. Now we have his spiritual successor, ESPN's Stephen A. Smith. 😅
Same with my old man. He was the guy with the TV on, sound down, listening to the radio broadcast.
No, Howard was an attorney and quite intelligent.Stephen A. Is just a blowhard. Howard does earn bonus points for being sloshed during broadcasts however, something Stephen A. hasn’t done.
Howard is much preferable to SAS!
I was lucky to be at that jet's game as a kid i still remember walking in the orange bowl with my dad and brother i had never seen so many people in my life what a feeling
The interesting thing about the 1972 Dolphins was the fact that Bob Griese broke his leg in the fourth game of the season and Earl Morrall led them to a 14-0 record and two playoff wins before Don Shula decided to play Griese in the Super Bowl in which he threw only seven passes the whole game.
Don Shula was a total asshat for doing that, the Dolphins were a run-first team, anyway, so, it already didn't matter who the QB was. He later exacerbated that by claiming that Earl Morrall, "never got the credit he deserved," for that season. Yeah, he didn't, because you decided Bob Griese deserved to play again, for, "reasons," really stupid. Plus, you, alienated, Csonka, Kiick, and, Warfield, to jump ship, for a doomed league. Oh, and, your, notorious, waterless, three-a-days, would, swiftly, get you blackballed currently. Not to mention he lost a SB to Joe Namath, and, never won a SB with Dan Marino. That same team later beat the Cowboys in the SB, but, your Dolphins couldn't. The only coach who comes even remotely close to him, as far as underachievement goes, is Tom Landry, sad, it just is.
@@matthewdaley746 lol, how did Tom Landry underachieve???
@@topJimmyP1984 Two SBs, not even as many as Joe Gibbs, plus, he, also, lost a SB to the pathetic 1970 Colts really needed more Championships, that's how.
Shula actually put Griese in during the AFC title game in Pittsburgh. His first pass was a 51 yard bomb to Paul Warfield.
@@johnreese3797 His selfishness nearly backfired, fatally, only the Steelers falling for a fake punt allowed the Dolphins to win the day.
Great stuff. A must do video should be MNF reporting John Lennon’s passing in 1980.
Back in those days some people were so stupid they would write to the editor of the tv magazine blaming them if a show got cancelled or had it's time slot moved.
Another story I had never heard about. Excellent stuff, as always. Those fans running onto the field should've been spiked into the ground by security. Seriously, there is no excuse for such idiotic behavior
I remember that time...it was clear that someone in upper NFL management didnt want the Dolphins to get much acclaim. The fans may have overreacted...but the question of who set this policy against Miami was never given.
Jim Kiick! Back to back days with Wyoming Cowboys legends referenced in your video! Jay Novacek must be on tomorrow's docket...
Yeah, one of three Dolphins players, (including, two HOFers), who got so, fed up with Don Shula, they left for a league that they had to know was, probably, doomed.
Wasn’t Shula they had an issue with. It was tight fisted Joe Robbie, the owner, who would not pay them what they were worth.
I was born in the ‘70s and while I don’t remember highlight options being quite this limited, the situation was only marginally better in the ‘80s and at least early ‘90s. Most of all, simply keeping up with the score of a game in progress was incredibly difficult compared to today. Young’uns don’t know just how good they’ve got it in this regard today, though this video might give them some idea.
Since you were born in the '70s you wouldn't remember. The concept of "instant reply" was still in its infancy. A sportscaster named Warner Wolf became a sensation by having his local four or five minute section of a local newscast loaded with highlights ("Let's go to the videotape!") of games played from throughout the country on the same day -- and that might have been in 1977 or '78. It seemed almost as amazing as someone going to the moon.
While Cosell got lot of death threats over the MNF highlights, he'd got plenty of bigoted hate mail over the years.
3:20-that's Bill Beutel in the clip; longtime news anchor at WABC (channel 7) in New York.
I love your videos but please increase their volume. I have to turn the volume up way higher than everything else on youtube and then the commercials blow my eardrums after them. Thank you for that.
FYI this is not a death threat.
Banger rebrand 👑👑👑👑
as A Dolphin fan since 1966 your presentation of this issue is spot on. You either liked or hated Cosell, and most vocal fans hated him. Interestingly, most everyone loved Don Meredith, so it was sort of a bad guy, good guy presentation by ABC. The only comment I take exception to was that the Dolphins were the laughingstock of the NFL. For their first three years of existence they steadily improved and were viewed as a decent team. Not great, but competitive at times. 69 was the year it fell back, but by then the Dolphins already had Griese, Czonka, Kiick, and others on their roster that were to become all stars and HOF members. The issue wasn’t talent, but the proper coaching to put the pieces together. Shula provided this as you noted.
I think Alex Karras, not Don Meredith, was in the booth that year. Meredith had left MNF for a couple of years in the early 70s.
2022 and nothing has changed. Little to no talk about the Dolphins, unless it involves a Tua controversy.
Not for nothing, but this was funny. 😄 I sure would like to see Dolphins play like this again and win a Super Bowl. They were so good back then !!
I can only imagine what would have happened if Philadelphia fans felt this way. *cough*SantaClaus*cough*Destiny'sChild*cough*J.D.DRew*
Remember, vietnam was still happening in 1972. Some of the luckier folks in america who didn't have to fight in the war got super pissed at something as little as this
I remember a Monday Night game either in the early or mid-1980s where the Redskins were playing, but I don’t remember who, I think maybe Dallas.
With Art Monk out with injury, the Redskins had replaced him with a diminutive receiver named Alvin Garret, completing their lineup of tiny receivers they named “The Smurfs”.
Joe Theisman hit Garret with a short pass across the middle which he turned into a huge gain by juking a couple of tacklers. Cosell said something like “…and that little monkey…” referring to Garret. It just so happened that Alvin was an African American player.
That erupted into accusations of racism because Cosell compared Garret to a monkey. Howard came out the following week apologizing for his poor choice of words. He insisted that he in no way was comparing Alvin to a monkey based on his appearance, but rather based on his size and crazy moves, like a little spider monkey.
I believed Howard. Even at the time he made the statement, I didn’t think it was racist. That never entered my mind until some PC idiots, who always look for something to offend them, had quickly made that association.
I can’t imagine how much worse that would have went over today with all of the soyboys and blue-haired androgynous individuals just looking to be butt-hurt over something?
Funny how these individuals are typically white, but seem to find more offense in everything than people of color do? It’s like, “you’re too stupid to know when you’ve been insulted, so I’m going to get offended for you and let you know when you should be upset…”, making them the worst racist of all because they think people of color are too dumb to know when they’ve been insulted.
Anyway, that was one of the bigger scandals I can remember from Monday Night Football that didn’t have anything to do with the actual game, just a bunch of early Soyboys who were ahead of the curve in the 1980s. There would have been a far louder cry if that happened more recently, but it didn’t go by unnoticed even in the 1980s and would have most likely resulted in Cosell’s immediate termination today, but was just a bump in the road back then.
What the hell, I thought you were going to play a clip of Howard doing a voice over of Miami highlights
I was 11yrs old in 1972
I knew every player on the Dolphins roster .
I lived in California. LoL
I’ve watched so many of these videos before I realized this is the crazy stat guru from r/nfl
Let's discuss the 1947-49 Browns 26 game win streak.
Howard was absolutely right to stand strong against these petty, infantile people who sent death threats. He handled it with class.
Us Miami people go hard. A death threat to us is like a warm greeting.
I don't remember relying on Monday Night Football to keep me up-to-date on what happened in the NFL on Sunday (although, I do remember watching MNF back then). I do remember going out to our front porch every Monday morning and picking up this thing we called a "newspaper". Then I would go to this thing we called a "sports section". Then I read articles about the Sunday games and looked at box scores. All without the help of the internet. Don't get me wrong. I love having access to more sports info now (to a point), but it's not like MNF was the only way to find out what was going on in the NFL.
In the seventies Cosell had a huge drinking problem. Even puking once in the booth and missing a good portion of the game passed out over a toilet.
Cause he said
“While Miami has the Oranges, Buffalo has The Juice????” :)
Highlights focused on five teams and ignored the Dolphins. So basically the template for the future NFL Network?
Channel 10 had film of Cosell confronting Sportscaster Joe Grogan on the concourse atMIA crying like little girl "Stay way from me your trying to get me klled" I still have a horrible hankie somewhere.
You obviously haven't heard about the Minnesota Vikings fans that were infuriated at MNF. hey threatened to serve him pie with no ice cream topping and one restaurant served him a jello salad without the little marshmallows. Howard wrote in his memoirs that he never feared so much for his life.
Pie with no ice cream? That’s just unAmerican!
MNF's hardon for the Jets in the 70s was as bad if not worse than SNF's hardon for the NFC East today.
I know someone who would turn the volume down on the TV and listen to the radio because he couldn't stand Howard Cosell. I, too, spent some time saying:"Shutup, Howard." I didn't like him either.
Apparently Florida man has a long history.
and they say fans are crazy today.
Crazy dolphins fans immediately made me think of Ray Finkle. Laces out Dan. 😂
6:16 Howard Cosell was not a play-by-play announcer. (I think Keith Jackson or maybe Frank in '72?) He was a color commentator. Color? Check out his jacket. Comments? He was a 'tator - fur sure. Luv your stuff! Long-time Gator and Dolphin-fan and I didn't know about this story
Well phin fans eventually got their wish. Phins up!!
"Not only are you an insane person who needs help immediately; you may also be a Dolphins' fan."
That's redundant.
People have Always been crazy.
I don't remember this but I was a teen back then and all the local games were blacked out so we had to listen to the games on WIOD AM radio. I can understand the fans frustrations. I remember in the 90's during a Miami MNF, the team members of the 1972 perfect season were having a special presentation with Shula during the halftime and ABC didn't broadcast it!! Instead, they showed some stupid video about some kid playing golf that wasn't even football related!! I wanted to see the 72 Dolphins!! That kid was Tiger Woods. 🤣😂🤣
I am a fins fan from 1966 and can tell you the Dolphins coverage in 1972 was a vast improvement over any previous year. I grew up outside Washington DC and remember seeing most Dolphin games in 1972 on NBC. Plus at least the Viking game on CBS. So readers should not get the opinion that The Dolphins were ignored that year. They received plenty of exposure. The issue here appears to be the blackout that caused fans in Miami to miss seeing the games. But did not the local press fill in the gap?
Cosell if the Duct Tapers of Oakland ( now Vegas ) lost there was never a highlight or mention. Denver hated him weekly, especially when Broncos embarrassed his Duct Tapers.
Cover the Eli Herring story guy was solid 1st-3rd round pick in the draft but told teams not to draft him due to his mormon beliefs but the raiders picked him anyway and offered him $500k and sent other mormons to sway him
Randall “ Tex “ Cobb “ I would take another loss in the boxing ring to get Cossel off MNF “.
Not hard to improve when the head coach takes half of his former team with him.
40 seconds into this I had to pause it and check to make sure you weren't talking about the Lions
Howard's favorite team was the Dolphins and Shula.
You forget that Cosell was the most hated man in Football and maybe in all sports, at this time! Bars around the country would have contests where the winner would get to throw a brick at a TV during Cosells half-time show. It was a popular activity among football fans!
Despite winning 16 games in a row, Miami was a slight underdog to the Redskins in the Super Bowl.
Larry King was travelling with Jimmy the Green to California. Jimmy said the Redskins have faced better competition and told Larry "You're still the AFL" Larry told Jimmy "You're making a big mistake" Larry war right.
Miami Dolphins were favored over Washington Redskins by 1.5 points !!
Miami 14 Washington 7 F (Super Bowl VII)
@@JerichoMile4 Redskins were favored by 2 on Tuesday but it went to 2.5 a few hours later. Game day it was redskins -2 as per larry merchant. But george solomon of the Washington post wrote that the redskins were -3 on game day. Finally if u go with wiki which can be shaky, they had Washington-1.
fan is short for fanatic
There were lots of good reasons to hate Cosell (my dad had about 130), but death threats are another matter.
A great channel nonetheless
D.
I'm getting help. It isn't working
Media has always been skewing it's coverage in ways that it thinks improves it's ratings. So it is not surprising the Jets got better coverage than the Dolphins. I think it is that way with the umpiring in professional sports. They are there to make money and if a little team losing to a big team is the way to make money, that's what will happen. I have used that logic to explain a lot of strange things in sports and when you apply that logic, they don't seem strange at all.
Neither Tampa Bay nor Kansas City are big markets. They went to the Super Bowl last year, are probably the two favorites in their respective conferences to go back, and the two New York teams are complete messes. I don't buy it.
Also, if the "fix was in" you damn well know that they would have gotten Trevor Lawrence to the Jets instead of to the small-market Jags.
I'm convinced that antisemitism is at root of ao much hate people had for Cosell, including this incident. Yeah he was a prick quite often but it doesn't erase anti-Jewish bigotry
I didn't know he was Jewish. He was what he was just like everyone else in the world
He was born Howard Cohen. Plus I've seen other YT videos of old sports clips with HC announcing where the antisemites showed their asses
This would be the one time context isn’t required. They are the 72 Dolphins. If you are a football fan, then you know whom they are. Ima Bears fan, not dolphins fan
That was crazy good!!
Pretty much the same today.
if they prosecuted death threats with a ten year sentence that nonsense would fade away.
It didn't help that Shula offered a free baked potato with 'The Works' at his steakhouse for anyone who came in with proof of having submitted a death threat to Cosell...lol
He, probably, had plenty of water to offer, seeing that his players got none of it at practice, lucky, for him there was no NFLPA, or, his career's just terminated.
@@matthewdaley746 Wow. That's dangerous as heck. I remember back when I played football in high school in the late 80s there was a player for the Minnesota Vikings who had died at a summer practice from heat exhaustion. You better believe that had an impact on our coaches during our football camp and our Two-a-days practices in the August heat. We took many water breaks. Many. They weren't going to have one of us collapse on their watch.
@@diaz5292 Korey Stringer, his gold-digger wife sued the Vikings, and, later the NFL, Bear Bryant did that in training, he was the best-dressed dictator ever to coach.
@@matthewdaley746 Right. Well you can't blame her for doing so. Coaches need to be aware of that danger when they have the team out there practicing in the summer heat. So, they should have been forced to pay for their mistake. And ya I've seen a movie about Bear Bryant where withholding water was a thing at his practices. That's just stupid. He got lucky.if none of em died. Especially in that Alabama summer heat. Good Lord. What an idiot. It's an unnecessary risk. We won the State Championship my senior year at the Pontiac Silverdome. So it certainly did not negatively impact us to take frequent water breaks. 👍
@@diaz5292 Actually, I do blame her for suing the NFL, the owner gave her more than enough to live on, and, the second suit was pure greed. Bear Bryant's training actually was in Texas, which is, somehow, even worse, considering. The fact of the matter is, his success meant these things simply got overlooked.
Howard was a color commentator, not play by play.
He did play by play for the highlights that are the topic of this video.
Narrator.
A lot of people did not like Howard Cosell.
There were a lot of fans who liked him, also.
😂 and they say Steelers fans are crazy! Maybe 🤔 they just wanted noticed, but that’s unbelievable. Just write a bunch of complaints. I did it to CBS before because I couldn’t stand Don Crickey anymore. They responded too!
That's Don CRIQUI, just fyi.
I miss when QBs used to line up under center, 3 or 5 step drop back. Now every play is in shotgun formation. Old school NFL was so much better than the garbage that they play today. The uniforms, formations, players, coaches, fans, coverage, announcers, highlights.... everything was just better in the 70s and 80s.
I haven't watched a game in 4 years and I can honestly say I don't miss the NFL at all.
60s and 70s but I agree.
@@osaji922 I put the 80s in there because watching Marino throw and Walter Payton run was a once in a lifetime sight.
Those fans were lucky the visiting team wasn't Baltimore, 'cuz Mike Curtis don't play that, homie.
I always want to see a player layout some schmuck who thinks he's cool running on to the field during a game. Rob Ray of the Buffalo Sabres was on the bench when some idiot went on to the ice to challenge Razor. Rob held him down and beat the crap out of him.
@@tygrkhat4087 If you've never seen the Curtis incident, you owe it to yourself to look that one up. The fan guy was drunk enough that he was laughing afterwards, but when he sobered up he found himself in TRACTION in a hospital. I mean, it was an EPIC boss-level waylaying.
@@richardadams4928 I have seen it. Tickets to the game, $15; Two beers and two dogs, $12; seeing a drunken idiot put in his place by a guy nicknamed "Mad Dog," priceless. It was the 70s, so those are 70s prices.
I have to say this this channel is so good that can you imagine that if the NFL was in conjunction with this channel and they gave him full access to all their old footage just how many followers this channel would have this is a great Channel and I think that politics and people being butthurt over footage that nobody's even watching anyway That #officialJaguarGator9 could really bring the footage back to life with his great stories and his beautiful contacts I love this channel
I remember when the Iowa Hawkeyes beat USC Trojans in the holiday bowl in 2019, Reggie Bush, and Matt Leinart would not say anything about iowa winning it was all how the future of USC looked bad because they lost to iowa. Actually was entertaining to watch them struggle to talk about what they just saw
Ah, those halcyon days when the Dolphins were good enough to make their fans actually care! I say this as a Dolphins fan. I’m so beaten down by how terrible and mismanaged the Dolphins have been for 20+ years that I just don’t get excited about much anymore.
You can blame, Csonka, Kiick, and, Warfield, for this, they all chose greed over keeping the dynasty going, sad, really, it is.
I don’t blame Csonka and Kiick. I blame the Robbies for the crappy way they ran the team. They wasted Dan Marino’s best years.
@@reddogdude Joe Robbie was, also, a lobbyist for Big Tobacco who tried to halt anti-tobacco advertising, and, Don Shula wasted Dan Marino by not getting a RB.
I'll defer to you about Robbie's lobbying activities, @@matthewdaley746, I know absolutely zero about that. What I was referring to was that Joe Robbie and his son Tim (who ran the team for about 4 years after Joe died), put crappy teams around Dan Marino and they kept Don Shula around way too long (Shula probably should have been let go after the '88 season). Without Marino, those Dolphins teams in the late 80s and 90s would have been as bad as they were from 2002 to 2019.
@@reddogdude Just repeating what I've read, imagine Dan Marino with the Steelers, Wayne Huizenga would have dumped Don Shula faster were it not for the wins record.
Howard was so obnoxious. You should have seen the treatment he got in Seattle! One last note I recall MNF was on a delay in the early days if you lived on the west coast like I did!
I miss Cosrl. Young ppl think he was stiff and boring, the opposite was true. Look at the partnership he had with Ali and those interviews
Howard Cosell was not well liked in many areas of the country. I remember when a bar in Denver was selling raffle tickets to win the lucky brick that the proud winner could throw into a television on a Monday Night Football broadcast.
Watch the movie - "Monday Night Mayhem. Shows a situation involving the Miami Dolphins and their fans being really mad at Cosell.