walsh@ihuxi.UUCP (11/03/83)
Everybody hates Howard, right? Everybody thoroughly enjoyed his absence
from Monday Night Football for those too few weeks, right? Everybody
regrets his return, right? LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! This is America!
Let's speak our minds & make our wishes known! PETITION ABC TV FOR
HOWARD'S OUSTER!!! I'll sign!!
I am so sick of made-up words and misused words and constant babbling.
Aren't YOU? Vote for the petition!
B. Walsh
:-)
P.S. I apologize to any non-Americans who may be offended by my above
statement "This is America". I forgot the large distribution. Strike that
statement from your minds.woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) (11/05/83)
Funny thing about Howard Cosell. We all agree that he is obnoxious, but he
is also fairly knowledgeable about the game, and not afraid to make an unflat-
tering comment about a player, like "Well, Frank, he just plain dropped that
ball, it was right in his hands". ABC's surveys and stats show that Howard
Cosell increases ratings, whatever we may personally think of him. He is
quite literally the man people love to hate!
Greg "Rules and Regulations" Woods
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!hao!woodsdjb@cbosgd.UUCP (11/07/83)
I always liked the story about the bar (I don't recall where) that has
the "Monday Night Howard Cosell Brick Raffle." Every week they buy an
old B&W TV and set it up in the bar. People pay some paltry sum ($1.00)
for a chance to win a brick. On Monday night, the winner is given the
brick and a clear shot at the old TV. At some point during the game when
Horrible Howard is on screen, the brick holder gets to wind up and
blast the brick right through Howard and the old TV (there is much cheering
and beer guzzling at this point). A great release of pent-up Howard-phobia
for everyone, not just the brick-wielder. The bar always made a sizable
profit on the deal, although it got harder and harder to find cheap,
large-screen, working B&W TV's.
David Bryant Bell Labs Columbus, OH (614) 860-4516
(cbosg!djb)
ps: And then there was the time a bunch of us decided to build a sophisticated
signal-processor that would remove Howard's voice from the TV audio, and
pass through everything else. It never quite worked. (Actually, it
mangled everything so that it sounded like someone murdering asthmatic
pigs.) Boy would have we been rich if it had.