January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

over the superstars of the day of any color, but if they also happened to be
black, more so. Cossell was a bush league huckster who jumped on any passing
bandwagon, or tried to blow its tires out, whichever did him the most good. He
was like wealthy (phony), self congratulatory liberals of the late 60s, who used
to invite Black Panthers to their Manhattan penthouses for cocktail
parties. You attribute a desire to please blacks as one of Cosell's
primary motives and you call him a snake. Roadscholarette, you're committing the
Rush Limbaugh Mistake here. >Nothing at all like that. Cossell wanted to
please himself, and at a time of racial upheaval, when all things were equal, he
leaned towards the black athletes. It wasn't for them. He couldn't have cared
less about people he wouldn't have even acknowledged if they couldn't have done
him some good. He didn't care about Ali or the whole mess he was in then. Ali
was just mileage.Cossell and Limbaugh, in a funny sort of way, were
snakes of the same sort, though they expressed this genre in vastly different
ways.|
|10/17/03 09:56:37 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|Cosell liked to
think of himself as "above sports." He really wanted to be a news journalist on
world affairs.He was given a variety show in the 70's which was so bad it
was funny. I never heard a good word about the guy fromanyone that ever
worked with him. Even NYC disk jockey Cousin Brucie (Morrow) who really has very
little bad things to say about anyone and is a rather harmless guy, hated his
guts. Listen to his commentary during the Holmes-Cooney fight and the way he
constantly shifts opinion on whom he thinks will win is awesome example of
covering all bases in order to always be right. He claims to have invented the
term "lateral movement" and equates it with the discovery of penicillon.|
|10/17/03 10:53:04 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|What bugged
me about Cosell is he always said, "I tell it like it is," rather than he told
it as he saw it. Everyone's perception is different according to one's own life
experiences so there is no absolute as it is. It is like, who died and left
Cosell as God? What an arrogant persumption to think of himself as the prevayer
of truth.I write for some other websites and there are times when I
interact with people of the boxing world. Sometimes a fighter may not like a
comment I have made or a question I have asked but I try to convey to them it is
just my opinion or the opinion of readers who would like to know something. I
stand by my statement of never taking a cheap shot as any question is a search
for knowledge and it is not personal. Am I the prevayer of some sort of
absoulute truth? Hell no! I don't want the job! What I say is just my "two
cents worth." |
|10/17/03 12:56:44 PM|Even|London||@||||10|Thanks Massimo!|
|10/17/03 12:56:55 PM|Evren|London||@||||10|Thanks Massimo!|
|10/17/03 03:06:26
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|Cossell's "tell it
like it is" rubbish wasn't even "tough journalism," presenting hard to accept
truths to viewers. If what he said ever was true, it was coincidental. He was
something like the equally shlocky Bryant Gumbel, conjuring sensationalism and
shrill hype to foist off on all of us ignorant peons as something we were too
stupid to catch onto ourselves, thereby creating the illusion of groundbreaking
truth. It was all for them.Athletes, particularly football players, used
to tell Howard stuff that wasn't true, then laugh when he presented it as his
own insights.|
|10/17/03 07:04:42 PM|charles anderson|ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|did cosell
call the quarry/spencer fight? seems like howard was really high on jerry in the
sixties.|
|10/17/03 07:53:28 PM|Paul|Sydney,
Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|Roadscholarette - have you swallowed a
dictionary ? Not only have you left me scratching my head, Koo Koo Clock has
gone missing, and poor old Massimo has got no chance to translate your meaning.