Guide Note: Howard Cosell was lawyer turned controversial sports commentator on ABC's Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He was one of the sports world's great characters during the 1970s and 1980s.
Fast Facts:
- Born: March 25, 1918
- Full name: Howard William Cohen
- Served as a Major in the US Army Transportation Corps during WWII
- First person to publicly use Muhammad Ali's Black Muslim name
- Played himself in three Woody Allen movies, Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973) and Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
- Hosted Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell