Infamous football broadcasting

[rchawk]

The Heidi Game of 1968, two great teams in a titanic and brutal slugfest. The exciting ending was missed in the Eastern part of the country to televise a children's classic. NBC's switchboards rang off the hook.

Link: http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/20...infamous_jets-oakland_raiders_heidi_game.html

 

[joelbc1]

A local radio announcer working an Iowa game back inn the late 50's......"Screen pass to Fleming, he catches it, gets a block, breaks a tackle and is speeding up the sideline....he's at the 40...the 50, he breaks into the open..the 40....the 30, look at that sonofabitch go!

Al Coupee's best call ever!

 

[TJ8869]

Howard Cosell referring to Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett as "that little monkey" was kind of a facepalm moment.

 

[YellowSnow51]

Cleveland Indians TV play by play guy commenting on a couple that keeps kissing in between pitches: "Oh, I got it figured out. He kisses her on the strikes and she kisses him on the balls."

 

[joelbc1]

Howard Cosell referring to Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett as "that little monkey" was kind of a facepalm moment.

Really an overblown event. It was NOT racist as he used it...it sounded racist if taken out of context. Cosell was probably the least racist announcer ever on National Radio. His history of fighting racism is one that should be seriously studied. He defended Mohammed Ali when NO ONE else would touch him. And, in Howard's defense, history has proved Cosell to be right on that one too.
ABNC was looking for a reason to put Howard on the sideline and this is what they used. Lots of public outcry, but again...the masses are asses. Not denying he said what he said...he just didn't mean it in any type of racial slur or derogitory manner.

 

[22*43*51]

"Personal foul. Number 73 Defense. "

"He was giving him the business."

 

[Hawk in SEC Country]

Really an overblown event. It was NOT racist as he used it...it sounded racist if taken out of context. Cosell was probably the least racist announcer ever on National Radio. His history of fighting racism is one that should be seriously studied. He defended Mohammed Ali when NO ONE else would touch him. And, in Howard's defense, history has proved Cosell to be right on that one too.
ABNC was looking for a reason to put Howard on the sideline and this is what they used. Lots of public outcry, but again...the masses are asses. Not denying he said what he said...he just didn't mean it in any type of racial slur or derogitory manner.

Exactly.....there was also broadcast footage of Cosell calling a white running back a "little monkey" while calling a college game a few years before. Al Michaels said in an interview, that "Little monkeys" is what Cosell lovingly called his grand kids.

A great man taken down by an innocuous comment that some people just couldn't let go of.

 

[h-hawk]

The Heidi Game of 1968, two great teams in a titanic and brutal slugfest. The exciting ending was missed in the Eastern part of the country to televise a children's classic. NBC's switchboards rang off the hook.

Link: http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/20...infamous_jets-oakland_raiders_heidi_game.html

And it was even worse than that - all the affiliates East of Denver switched to Heidi. I was 12 and hoping for the Raiders to lose (being a Chief's fan) when after a commercial Heidi started. I couldn't believe it. ( I grew up in Western Iowa so the stations were out of Omaha.)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/11/the-heidi-game.html

 

[artradley]

"Personal foul. Number 73 Defense. "

"He was giving him the business."

That was actually one of the great moments!