That Time Al Michaels Was in the Same Booth as Earl Weaver & Howard Cosell | The Rich Eisen Show

Подписаться 812 тыс.

Просмотров 128 тыс.

50% 1

Hall of Fame announcer Al Michaels joins Rich Eisen in-studio where he reveals what it was like being in the same broadcast booth as fiery Orioles manager Earl Weaver and the opinionated Howard Cosell..
Tune in to the Emmy-nominated Rich Eisen Show live for FREE on The Roku Channel at go.roku.com/th... and also streaming on Audacy, Sirius channel 218 and XM channel 202 weekdays from 12--3 PM ET!
Showcasing insightful sports expertise with an offbeat mix of humor and pop culture, The Rich Eisen Show attracts the most recognizable names in sports and entertainment.
Subscribe here to keep up with the internet's best sports and pop culture commentary, interviews, and much more!
------ SUBSCRIBE HERE:
bit.ly/2VjWSBC
FOLLOW US HERE:
/ richeisenshow
/ richeisenshow
/ richeisenshow
/ thericheisenshow
www.audacy.com...
#richeisenshow #nfl #howardcosell

Опубликовано:

24 сен 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 96

@davidmitchell6873 Год назад

I loved Howard as a kid in the late 70s and early 80s. He did everything. MNF, MNB, boxing, Evil Knievil events and Battle of the network stars. He even hosted Saturday night live once.

@Deke1 Год назад

He was an icon

@rayjr62 Год назад

He also had his own variety TV show on Saturday Night.

@denniskumabe734 3 месяца назад

Cosell was a licensed lawyer in NY. Imagine having to be opposing him in court. Law missed a superstar. He would wipe the floor w dershoeitz.

@sammyvh11 Год назад

Earl is still a legend in Baltimore.

@Nelbroth Год назад

I'd listen to Al Michaels read the back of a shampoo bottle. Simply the best.

@robtucker6303 Год назад

I could listen to these stories all day…

@kokoken1 Год назад

Al is just one awesome storyteller, and to paraphrase Jimmy Durante, "I got a million of 'em."

@joevelasquez4470 Год назад

All day is right Love this stuff man

@sagr9842 2 месяца назад

He has a book with a ton of these stories.

@generoberts9151 Год назад

I can’t get over how good Al Michaels looks for his age. Living the dream

@toddsalkowski448 Год назад

Al Michaels is a national treasure!! Met him in a Lake Tahoe elevator once, and he was as nice and as humble as could be. His voice was powerful and penetrating. You could not believe it came out of a guy who was about 5-5 and 140 lbs.

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

He's a little taller than that, no?

@toreckman8899 Год назад

@@jamesanthony5681he is. I met him in Maui but he is a nice guy. Perhaps he’s thinking of earl weavwr who is even shorter I believe.

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

@@toreckman8899 Michaels is about 5'9", 5'10" tops. Earl around 5'7"

@toreckman8899 Год назад

@@jamesanthony5681 so if you knew this why didn’t you originally reply with that to the poster ? 🤔🤷

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

@@toreckman8899 I've never seen either face to face, like the guy in the elevator with Michaels.

@marksprinkle Год назад

Same story Costas has told about meeting Cosell. Word for word.

@tomault3063 Год назад

Kinda fishy, isn't it? Bob nailed Howard's voice. (careeah)

@tberman2386 Год назад

Earl Weaver was a total character! Growing up in Baltimore, the tales of Weaver were legend.

@stevehasler8922 Год назад

As an Orioles fan from '69 onward, it was cool to hear about Al's thoughts on Weaver on the front end of this, and Palmer on the back.

@shawnanderson6687 9 месяцев назад

Earl was a legend.

@joeski734 9 месяцев назад

Earl was a legendary manager and an OK broadcaster. He probably had to censor himself too much. I would have loved to hear an uncensored Weaver broadcast

@Etatdesiege1979 Год назад

Long live the Earl of Baltimore.

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

Howard Cosell was interviewing Sammy Davis Jr. at ringside in Las Vegas, before an Ali fight in 1975, and Howard asked Davis, "Well Sammy, how do you see this fight?" Replied Davis, "With my one good eye." Cosell was silent for one of the few times in his life.

@zeus6793 Год назад

Never heard that one! But, I sure can hear Sammy saying that. I miss that whole generation.

@paulfilipovich6127 4 месяца назад

Great comeback

@jamesford3648 Год назад

Al is a NATIONAL TREASURE, He is the LAST of the Greatest Announcers. Enjoy him because once he Retires we will lose 1 of the BEST that ever existed. None of these so called announcers could even compare to this Man.

@bluewavechris Год назад

Al is awesome.....I have nothing but total respect for him....his taking the reigns during the earthquake showed how amazing he is. LOVE the stories of Earl and Jim (I am life long O's fan...and was at the 83 WS game that Regan attended). Howard was one of the smartest guys in the room....but at times he wanted to be star a bit too much.

@ORagnar Год назад

I loved Howard Cosell. He didn't talk about sports in the way other sports casters did. He was more worldly than most. He always had a wildly unique perspective. He was super opinionated, had no governor and was damn smart. It made for great entertainment. He was one of a kind and there has been no one like him since. o

@Lewis9700 Год назад

It's funny that people love Howard now. I also liked him, but I remember a lot of America couldn't stand him in the 70's and 80's

@ORagnar Год назад

@@Lewis9700 -- Apparently he won both the most popular and most unpopular polls. I just saw him as entertaining. He made things interesting. 10

@jimwerther Год назад

@@Lewis9700 I never liked him

@paleo704 Год назад

Cosell was an obnoxious ****

@runningdogx Год назад

This one of your best interviews to date, Rich.

@kevn99 9 месяцев назад

Al still has the golden voice and sharp as a tack.

@marvinrose33 Год назад

Howard Cosell was the best and he was Legendary. A brilliant man, on a monday night football broadcast, Alex Karras was in the booth and the Vikings were playing, Howard asked Alex why Fran Tarkenton never got hurt, Alex answered back the is because his bones are made out of rubber howard.

@adamplace1414 Год назад

Great announcers understand narrative - they're some of the best storytellers out there.

@suptrto Год назад

This is a great interview, Al Michaels is one of the legends in his craft

@WeirsBeard Год назад

Earl Weaver! Love this! Grew up a Sawx fan when The O’s were good and Earl was fully in charge-we had some great battles! Much respect.

@rockingroby6060 Год назад

I recall a World Series game when Cosell comments the SS "Willie Mcgee looked a bit like ET", popular movie at the time. It was met with silence and Howard's slow laugh, "Well dont you think". Al Michaels replies "Just want everyone to know who to send the mail to, Howard"

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

I remember that, as well as his remark about Alvin Garrett of the Redskins. Cosell was heavily criticized for both.

@terryt504 Год назад

Was not a World Series it was the NLCS and Mcgee was a CF. Lasorda said it, was not Cosell

@rockingroby6060 Год назад

We'll agree to disagree.

@gheller2261 Год назад

Al still has that great voice.

@98Dougmorris Месяц назад

That was an incredible story Al told!

@Lava1964 10 месяцев назад

It's amazing to think that Al Michaels broadcast both the 1972 Winter Olympics and the 1972 World Series--and he still sounds and looks terrific.

@stormbringercoming8105 Месяц назад

I love Cosell stories. The good, the bad and ugly.

@tomault3063 Год назад

Loved Al on WLWT during the early days of the Big Red Machine. Quickly moved on to the big-time. Was sorry to see him go.

@jimcorlett Год назад

The goat of American sports broadcasting imo he’s up there with Ritchie Benaud from oz with the cricket and Bill McLaren from Scotland with rugby union Ray Warren with NRL from Australia

@lovetruth8549 14 дней назад

I didn't even know who Cosell was until recently watching vintage baseball and college football games (I think). Seems like he was everywhere. I really like him. I was wondering why he's not in the HoF. Now, I think I know.

@sctvfan1313 Год назад

Great Great interview - loved this entire video - thank you

@duderdude4831 Год назад

Just realized Al sounds just like Howard Stern

@davebouteiller6787 11 месяцев назад

So good. What incredible stories!

@w.l.graves7228 Год назад

great listening to al , grew up listening to cosell ... [ ALI'S great interviews ] i am a dinosaur , so i remember the first monday night football years .. cosell , meredith and keith jackson [ WHOA NELLIE !] in 68 , then with gifford starting in "70 ..! love costas too ! brilliant and funny !

@fabio40 11 месяцев назад

Al has the best stories! LoL!

@alecosfan Год назад

Earl was the Greatest

@cesarbriones2419 2 месяца назад

Just the title of this video had me cracking up. Geeezus😂

@joeski734 9 месяцев назад

If Howard was working an event, it meant that event was big time! Really he made everything more momentous.

@CaesarDarias Год назад

If you want to read a very entertaining and often hilarious book, check out “Palmer and Weaver: Together We Were Eleven Foot Nine” by Jim Palmer and Jim Dale. The mound visits were epic.

@mwt3579 Год назад

I was just coming to type this. Agreed. Great book.

@toddm9501 11 месяцев назад

Al makes everything great!

@avjake Год назад

Like a walking encyclopedia of sports.

@ORagnar Год назад

6:00 Stewart Scott was most liked and disliked? I understand the most liked, but how can you dislike Stewart Scott? I don't get that . With Howard Cosell I get it. He was polarizing, but Stewart Scott wasn't that way at all. o

@davidmitchell6873 Год назад

A lot of white guys didn't like what they perceived as jive talk. I am a white guy and I liked Stuart Scott.

@johnnyjoey 11 месяцев назад

Always have loved Al Michaels as a sportscaster but couldn’t stand Cosell. If you were interested in knowing how smart Cosell was, all you would have to do was ask Howard! 😂

@matthewgabbard6415 10 месяцев назад

The hell with that, if they don’t like you that means you are living in their heads. They will go out of their way to see you just to hate you

@thebossman60 Год назад

Al Michael's has 2 claims to fame. One is the Miracle on Ice and the other is making MNF unlistenable.

@RRaquello 11 месяцев назад

I remember my father absolutely hating Howard Cosell, but he was an old guy who grew up listening to Mel Allen and Red Barber and didn't like sports broadcasters who had any kind of shtick and Cosell was all shtick. To me, who never remembered anything before the Cosell types came around, I wasn't a fan but didn't hate him and I'd say to my father it was all just part of the show. Cosell was more show biz than sports. I didn't like Cosell for baseball because I thought he was just there to collect a check and didn't really know the sport. For other sports, he was OK.

@MrMarcus70 3 месяца назад

0:44

@BobDeCaprio Год назад

as previously recorded

@goodflop255 11 месяцев назад

Howard was the best. Nobody even close. Miss that voice on all sporting events. RIP Howard

@thewkovacs316 Год назад

michaels claim to fame will always be calling out the howard stern troll during the oj standoff I SEE OJ

@toddm9501 11 месяцев назад

Sorry Rich. Stuart isn't in the same stratosphere as Howard.

@proudbirther1998 11 месяцев назад

I do exactly what Earl did LOL

@jmadratz Год назад

WTF did he do to his face??!?!?!! Why Why Why. Nobody who has watched Al for so many years can watch this without asking this same question.

@jeffreyjacobs390 Год назад

Al Michaels was, is the best there is ....... Joe Buck would be second ....Jiggs MacDonald third (Canadian, did The Islanders as well.) Tied with BOB COSTAS for sure.

@Agent77X Год назад

Howard Cosell had so much power he could speak his mind and ABC executives said nothing! He was pretty much rule ABC Sports! Him and Don Meredith rule Monday Night football! It was a party each game night. They would argue, laugh and go crazy!😊 Celebrities would kill to get in with them!😊

@Aggie1295 Год назад

Who disliked Stuart Scott?

@jimwerther Год назад

@delyates2509 Год назад

Comparing Stuart Scott to Howard Cosell is laughable.

@clintonsmith5163 Год назад

Wrong. The comparison is a valid one. Both men were polarizing. They weren't saying that one was better or worse than the other.

@Redmenace96 Год назад

Don't want to be sad, but Al Michaels is from the old school and he's going to be gone in a few years. Nobody working today is even close. They couldn't fire a rifle and have the bullet land in his kingdom. Second, Howard Cosell interpretation is easy: If you had a brain in your head, you loved Howard. If you were a dingbat fan, you hated him. He was ahead of his time. He pointed the way forward for intelligent analysis of sports culture in America. Case in point- Troy Aikman is a dumb jock. It is sad that he is considered a 'top announcer'.

@terrygracy8345 Год назад

He’s a top announcer of football because of his insight. He’s not doing baseball, basketball, boxing like Cosell did. I agree for the most part

@jordanharirchi4604 Год назад

I love Rich, but he gotta work on the timing and believability of that fake laugh lmao

@Sam-nm8tx Год назад

The only thing worse than cosell’s toupee was his ego. A truly horrible human being

@gheller2261 Год назад

Loved Cosell and I completely understand why he hated Frank Gifford. Cosell knew that the man sitting next to him was antisemitic.

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

How was Gifford antisemitic, and what did he do or say?

@gheller2261 Год назад

@@jamesanthony5681 You could hear it in his voice in the many disparaging things he said about Cosell. The disdain was palpable and that comes from a place beyond personal relations.

@jamesanthony5681 Год назад

@@gheller2261 But again, what specifically did Gifford say that was antisemitic? When Cosell left MNF and came out with his book, criticizing Frank saying he was a boring play-by-play announcer (true) and not a journalist (true again), Gifford was hurt by those remarks, and considered it a betrayal on Cosell's part. Frank was a nice guy and classy, but he was vanilla behind the mike, seldom criticizing players (Faultless Frank) or the NFL, avoiding controversy with the league at all costs. I remember a funny story about that. Near the end of his TV career, Cosell was absolutely insufferable, and he s**t on a lot of people when he left, including Roone Arledge who gave him his big break in television and MNF, his career in fact.

@kmac1766 Год назад

😂😂😂

@Colin_1977 Месяц назад

Rich is fake laughing. Give it a rest dude - you don’t have to laugh at everything like a banshee. Oh man…I could listen to stories from Al Michaels all day. He must have tons.