Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American sportscasting - further comments Message-ID: <958@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 09:01:47 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.958 Posted: Thu Aug 16 09:01:47 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Aug-84 07:27:04 EDT References: <370@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP>, <687@opus.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 22 For all of those who LIKE Howard Cosell, phooey. The guy just cannot call a boxing match. It is like watching two different fights. Howard calls a left and the gut just threw a right. The guy is staggered by a punch and Howard says it missed. His running commentary never matches what is being shown on the screen. His aside remarks during the fight are enough to gag a maggot. Sure he can be biased, but not to the point of blindness about what is happening. Howard has MADE Mark Breland. If I were Breland, I would feel compeled to give Howard 10% of all my earnings from here on out. (As an aside, Breland ain't as good as his press clippings.) I, for one am delighted that old rug head is not going to be regurgitating his asinine comments on Monday night football or baseball anymore. I complained to ABC the very first night he appeared on Monday night football, and have continued to do so over the years. Whenever he calls a fight, I turn off the sound so that I can follow the action without his ?insight?. The man is a joke. If he wasn't married to one of Roone Arledges kin, how far do you think he would have gotten? In my opinion, Bob Uecker's missing that foul ball a few months ago was a great piece of work. It has shut the mouth up ever since. T. C. Wheeler