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12/8 2010

Call of the Day: Howard Cosell Tells MNF Audience John Lennon Is Dead

Posted by Dan Levy.

It’s been 30 years since John Lennon died. Thirty years today. I was two (almost three), so I was not up late enough to watch the Monday Night Football game where Frank Gifford kicked it to Howard Cosell to tell America the news.

“Yes, we have to say it. Remember this is just…a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City. John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York City — the most famous, perhaps, of all of the Beatles — shot twice in the back, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital. Dead…on..arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash, which in duty, well, we have to tell you.”

Thank you, internet, for keeping a running archive of our history. Imagine where we’d be without you.

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Posted on December 8, 2010 at 7:03AM

 

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