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Howard Cosell, born on 25 March 1918, was a sports journalist and broadcaster, very well known for his boisterous, cocky personality. He is often cited as one of the most revolutionary broadcasters in history, completely changing how broadcasters spoke and behaved.

Have you ever wondered how rich Howard Cosell rates, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, Cosell’s net worth has been estimated at around $5 million, earned during his long career as a journalist and broadcaster which spanned over 40 years. However, Cosell did pass away in 1995, so his net worth is unlikely to change.

Although he was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Cosell was raised in Brooklyn, New York City. He eventually graduated from New York University with a BA degree in English; during his college years he was also a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. After graduating from NYU, Cosell went to the New York University School of Law, and he was admitted to the State Bar in 1941, but the U.S. soon entered World War II and Cosell enlisted.

Cosell joined the US Army Transportation Corps, and was soon promoted to major. He served his time without much danger, and actually found time to get married. He left the Army in 1945 and went back to practicing law in Manhattan, specializing in union law. He didn’t get into broadcasting until 1953, when he was asked to host a show featuring Little League baseball players.

Cosell hosted that show for three years, never taking any pay. After those three years he decided to leave law behind and fully pursue a career in broadcasting; the President of ABC Radio, Robert Pauley, gave Cosell a chance, and Cosell’s show “Speaking of Sports” began airing. Cosell quickly rose in the broadcasting field and gained fame for his unorthodox style of “tell it like it is” broadcasting. It can be argued that he revolutionized the field with his intellectual analysis and in depth reporting.

Cosell really became famous through his coverage and support of the Tommie Smith and John Carlos “black salute” at the 1968 Olympics medal ceremony, and his defense of Muhammad Ali. When Ali’s championship was stripped due to his refusal of military service during the Vietnam War, Cosell was one of the few voices to defend him. Cosell didn’t just cover Ali however; he was known mainly for his coverage of boxing in general during the ‘70s. This lasted until 1982, when he announced he was done covering boxing, but this period at ringside made him famous and greatly attributed to his net worth.

After abandoning the sport that made him famous, Cosell continued to cover various other sports; he was a featured voice on Monday Night Football as well as at the Olympics. He also launched his own investigative series on ABC – “Sports Beat”, which he used to do some hard investigative reporting on various sports, and won three Emmy awards for excellence in reporting journalism. This show was the first of its kind, and helped to pioneer a new era of sports journalism.

Regarding his personal life, Cosell was married to Mary Abrams from 1944 to 1990; the couple had two daughters. After the death of his wife, Cosell retreated from the public, and spent the next five years in private. He passed away on 23 April 1995.

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Howard William Cohen Trademarks

1. Commanding, nasally voice
2. Strange accent, exaggeratedly impeccable diction, and snarky demeanor

Howard William Cohen Quotes

• In a December 1976 Playboy interview with OJ Simpson – He’s got the most spontaneous reflexes of anyone I’ve ever seen, he has an uncanny ability to lead his blockers and find that extra inch that will allow him to knife through…
• On O.J. Simpson’s running style, in the 1974 George Romero documentary “Juice on the Loose”: “[O.J. has] an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to make the cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legs and the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with his variation of speed…”
• [While announcing an Monday Night Football game] “Films from tonight’s game should be taken to schools all across the country as an example of a study in futility.”
• I’m telling it like it is.

Howard William Cohen Important Facts

• Had a special friendship with boxer Muhammad Ali, which included being one of the first journalists to address him by his Islamic name after changing it from Cassius Clay.
• Uncle of NFL analyst and NFL Films producer Greg Cosell.
• He was a frequent target of mockery by Mad Magazine.
• Ranked #5 by the American Sportscasters Association in its list of the Top 50 Sportscasters of All-Time (January 2009).
• Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
• Was said to be a very devout family man who never recovered from his wife’s death.
• Was openly against the hiring of ex-athletes for sportscasting roles solely based on their playing fame. He felt that many qualified candidates who never played sports were being unfairly overlooked for these positions. He used the term “jockocracy” to describe this.
• Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.
• Inducted into the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame in 1993 with Marty Glickman.
• In 1983, during a Monday Night Football matchup between the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, he referred to Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett as a “little monkey.” Following two months of intense public pressure, he resigned from the MNF broadcast team.
• He co-wrote with Peter Bonventre a book called “I Never Played The Game” in which he coined the word “jockocracy” to describe how athletes were given announcing jobs that they had not earned.
• After his law career, he started out as a radio sports reporter before he was hired by ABC to cover sports for TV.
• On Dec. 8, 1980 at 11:30 pm while broadcasting a game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots on NFL Monday Night Football (1970), he was the first person to publicly announce the death of John Lennon. This was long before there was the Internet and 24-hour news channels. Concidentally, Lennon had appeared in the broadcast booth on NFL Monday Night Football (1970) exactly five years earlier (Dec. 8, 1975).
• Was a lawyer before becoming a sports announcer.

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