Howard Cosell - 1983 KY Derby Post Parade

[Uncle Buck]

Just found a rare video bit on youtube so I thought I\'d share it. Hearing Cosell do a post parade is AWESOME! Gave me chills!

To give you an idea of how talented Cosell was, he used to do the MNF half time highlights without any teleprompter script whatsoever!

Enjoy the clip. Check out \"Alexis\" Solis..too funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jz4c64Rhew&mode=related&search=

[razzle]

Uncle Buck,

Thank you.  That was a treat from memory lane.

[stillinger]

Seein\' Mike Venezia wasn\'t as much fun. Great clip.

[richiebee]

...so its sometime around 1963 and Cosell has befriended a Louisville boxer
named Cassius Clay, a friendship which will eventually help make both men
famous. Clay and Cosell are in a car, stopped at a red light in downtown
Louisville, when a beautiful woman crosses in front of them. Cosell apparently
stares at the woman intently, which angers Clay, who says: \"Are you crazy
Cosell? You\'re Jewish--they\'ll kill you in this town for looking at a white
woman like that!\".

In 1983 I actually lived on the backstretch at CD, working for Bernard Flint.
Was too lazy to walk to the grandstand that year, hung out in the barn area at
a big Derby Day picnic that race car driver AJ Foyt used to have each year for
backstretch workers.

[stillinger]

Great Story.
That was (\'63) my first year on the track.
My first bet after turning PRO, (I was 18)
was Candy Spots at 4/5 a one turn mile at AP,
The only speed; came back with (after much deliberation)
Axe 2, at 8/5 with a $20 saver on B. Major at 10/1 to cover
the deuce. Photo the right way. Next, Bounding Main
was one of two closers and the other one was Charlie\'s
in from CA. His was 1/1, Mustard Plaster, mine was 36/1,
not a tough choice; I won, and college was not the top
of my list that fall. Which is why I have Infantry experience.
Since I am a survivalist, maybe a coward, it was as a DI and never
in the field. I did lose 33 in a row at Tropical Park in the fall of \'65,
worrying about it. I consider that one of the great practicalities
of my life was in limiting that 33 to a $500 lose. So much for
the first round of PRO.

I would think that backstretch was HOT in the summer? I was
Unfortunately an IT director then. That was worse than losing.
That corporate thing was cooler with the neighbors and the wife,
but it wasn\'t the same. I had more fun tapping out in LA in \'64,
that I did using the corporate jet in \'83, (although it was cute,G3).
The tap out was on a trotter! By a nose. That\'s when you know you
have some inventory to do. How was the picnic?
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richiebee Wrote:
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> ...so its sometime around 1963 and Cosell has
> befriended a Louisville boxer
> named Cassius Clay, a friendship which will
> eventually help make both men
> famous. Clay and Cosell are in a car, stopped at a
> red light in downtown
> Louisville, when a beautiful women crosses in
> front of them. Cosell apparently
> stares at the woman intently, which angers Clay,
> who says: \"Are you crazy
> Cosell? You\'re Jewish--they\'ll kill you in this
> town for looking at a white
> woman like that!\".
>
> In 1983 I actually lived on the backstretch at CD,
> working for Bernard Flint.
> Was too lazy to walk to the grandstand that year,
> hung out in the barn area at
> a big Derby Day picnic that race car driver AJ
> Foyt used to have each year for
> backstretch workers.