In Reply to: posted by AnthemForOne on January 03, 2025 at 12:24:25
Successful? Yes. Respected? Nonsense. For the record, Cosell sucked; Dick Young and many others agree with that assessment. That stated, his calling card wasn't primarily as a color commentator, per se, but rather as an obnoxious play-by-play guy.
In any event, if Cosell had claimed that he played football or basketball in junior high, I wouldn't have doubted it. There's not a single bimbette put forth as a color analyst of football or men's hoops that can make that claim. That's my point.
~EBuzz