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To: sandintoes who wrote (19189)4/10/2008 7:10:57 PM
From: pompsander  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 25737
 
"What sports announcer called some black player a monkey? He said, something to the effect of "look at that monkey run." and he was fired immediately."

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No, that was Howard Cosell. He was not fired. There was a brouhaha for a couple of days but Cosell had a lot of credibility with the black community because of his support of Muhammad Ali. A week later, life went on as before.



To: sandintoes who wrote (19189)4/10/2008 10:04:14 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25737
 
The referee's name was Richard Hammond, his nick name was Richie... anything else you might want to know about that incident of Howard Cosell's reference to running like a monkey?

GZ