Re: So Imus is shit canned for 2 weeks?? and Coulter, Limbaugh are fine??
Didn't find any references to their specific political affiliations on their respective Wikipedia pages.
The Cosell incident was a little before my time. After looking it up, I had heard about it, just didn't remember the exact details.
For Cosell, just this :
"After the war, Cosell began practicing law in Manhattan, primarily in union law." Most union lawyers are usually democrats? Just a guess though.
Cosell drew criticism during one Monday Night Football telecast in September 1983, for stating "that little monkey gets loose, doesn't he,"Alvin Garrett of the Washington Redskins. While some saw "little monkey" as a racial slur, others who knew Cosell were quick to point out that he used this term routinely in an approving way to describe quicker, smaller players of all ethnicities. Among the evidence to support this claim is video footage of a 1972New York Giants and the Kansas City Chiefs, that features Cosell referring to Mike Adamle, a 5-foot-9-inch, 197-pound Caucasian, as a "little monkey."
Perhaps due to the strain of this controversy, Cosell left Monday Night Football shortly before the start of the 1984 NFL season, claiming that the NFL had "become a stagnant bore." His duties were then reduced to only baseball, horse racing, and a sports news program called Sportsbeat. Howard Cosell never got a chance to commentate a Super Bowl, as by the time ABC finally got into the Super Bowl rotation with Super Bowl XIX, Cosell was already gone from Monday Night Football.
The only thing remotely political about Jimmy The Greek, is this :
"he bet $10,000 USD on the 1948 election between Thomas Dewey and Harry S. Truman, getting 17:1 odds for Truman to win."
I do remember the JTG incident. It happened probably within a couple years of me watching sports and paying attention to them, for the first time.
On January 16, 1988, he was fired by the CBS network (where he was a contributor to the NFL Today program since 1976) after commenting to a reporter that African Americans were naturally superior athletes because they had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery:
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While it seems to me Cosells exile was somewhat his decision. Jimmy the Greeks, was definitely forced by CBS. And lasted forever.
