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  • Nobody in rock n roll before or since was that witty

  • Rugby and American football are both kool sports

  • I sobbed like crazy the night Cosell announced Lennon's death on MNF Dec.8th,1980.

  • "John Lennon of the original Beatles"

    As opposed to the non- original Beatles

  • @theloosegoose333 Give the man a break he was pretty cool to John.

  • I loved how John called it soccer. He was an American at heart. :D

  • I miss John. He was ok. A sharp cookie that one was. How do you compare this strange game to these other games? Will the Beagles get back together? All in a minute or less.

  • I just hope everyone can see that what the New World Order Globalists that have all the power and own all our puppet politicians that scream global warming and change, do not have in mind John Lennon's Imagine. What they have in mind is a world working for 43 cents worth an hour with all of us serfs at the bottom at the pyrimid. All population control through medications, shots, and gmo foods as well as radiation through scanner machines etc. want to deplete us to a controllable population

  • @eysofastrnjr: In all fairness, 43 cents an hour for labor is reasonable. By the time you factor the cost of psychotropic drugs, chemical bombardment, and other devices made necessary by our required enthrallment, there is little if any money left for a decent profit. Prisons don't just run themselves ya know.

    Now pipe down and drink the Kool-Aid. The government is here to help you. Resistance is futile. Turn on the TV. Put down the mouse and step away from the computer.

  • Would the Beatles have ever reunited?.. I think probably not. Remember, it was not just Lennon and McCartney, but Starr and Harrison. I think Harrison would've said "what's the point?" Only unless all four thought there was something musically significant that they could accomplish, I don't think it would've happened. Definitely NOT for nostalgia's sake, or because everyone wanted them to.

  • how ironic that Howie would announce John's death almost exactly 6 yrs later

  • Larry Kane talked about John coming to see him in Philadelphia and he just bought a regular ticket for the train and got off at 30th street station. And he walked out and got into a taxi. I took that train twice a day and always wondered which day I could have chanced to bump into him. It's fun to think about it

  • Who's the giffer? Exactly.

  • @prrolg I think he is talking about Frank Gifford the former football star turned announcer. He was on as an announcer for years.

  • @calditz1 You're right. Did you notice at the very end of the video Howard says that he has to return to the Giffer and John says "...who's the giffer?". I was satirically commenting on what John said. Frank was very low key and Don Meredith was the opposite. Don was my favorite of all time.

  • @prrolg Yes, they were a great team. I can't pick one over the other but I recall Meredith was funnier and Gifford was generally the "straight" man. It seems like both did some acting too - I know they both did some commercials but I seem to recall some TV or movie appearances for both. Maybe I'm thinking of Merlin Olsen?

  • @calditz1 Yes, Frank acted. Alex Karras was a great actor. Carl Weathers was good in the Rocky movies and Predator. Others I can think of from that era were Bernie Casey, Timmy Brown (ex-Eagle with Hollywood good looks), Fred Williamson and of course Fred Dryer was great in his TV series. And OJ Simpson (ugh). Even Terry Bradshaw got into a Burt Reynolds movies about footballers. Oh, and Merlin Olson!

  • @prrolg You left out one. Someone I used to have a HUGE crush on. No. 18, Roman Gabriel. LA Rams. Jim Plunkett had a cameo in at least one movie as well.

  • @napachild Good call. And Roman played for the Eagles, my team. I flew up from Florida once and Roman happend to be on the same plane. I spoke to him briefly. He was coming to Philly to take part in a golf event at Ron Jaworski's golf course over in New Jersey. I don't think we should leave out Jim Brown. He did a great movie with Rachel Welsh (Name?) and of course The Dirty Dozen

  • @prrolg OMG you got me back! I forgot about Jim Brown as well. Is Roman Gabriel a nice guy? Or is he one of the stuck up, too good to talk to you kind of guys? By the way---I've been a Raiders fan for 44 years. Their training camp is in Napa where I live. Was a Raiders fan when I lived in WA state where I was born. Moved to the Bay in 1986. Was thrilled when they came back from LA. Waited 30 years to be a part of that fan base. By the way, its Raquel. Happy Thanksgiving!

  • John, it's your birthday tomorrow. You would have been 71. Just ** imagine** if he were still alive.

    John: I still miss your presence in this world...

  • Wow, he seems so warm and personable here. Keep in mind this was during his separation from Yoko. I lot of people in a lot of books say he was a different person during this period, that it wasn't as 'lost' or traumatic as he later said it was. Miss him.

  • there was a good chance they would have got together in the 80's...at the time of lennons death mccartney had disbanded wings and his release in 80 Mccartney II was a dud ...john's album double fantasy probably would have only been a moderate success if not for his death...and with the emerging video and cd market starting in the 80's the opportunities for success were there...probably not as "the beatles" per se but perhaps something like a supergroup name like "the travelling wilbury's" did

  • @youtuuberoxx You're probably right. There was some indications that the love was returning. McCartney's song "Coming Up" off McCartney II was the inspiration for Lennon to return to music full time and one of his favourite Paul songs. Also Paul calling the band in the clip "The Plastic Macs" as a tribute to John may have helped. Their rapport with each other was growing again from around '76-'77 and yeah, by the early '80's it would've been no surprise if the two did at least a duet together.

  • Two of the all time greats in their own fields. John was the King of his.

  • After watching this - Imma go ask Ringo about Boxing.

  • @o5hjtTheNinja he'd know the thing or two.... afterall he was a self-proclaimed wife-beater ...

  • Ringo, Paul, Julian Lennon, and Dhani Harrison need to form a band.

  • @NGTravis Paul McCartney apparently wants to do just that next year. I'd expect to see Sean rather than Julian, though.

  • Compare Lennon to the bitchy Liam Gallagher or the Bono.  Lennon was a more geniune person.

  • @gnossticc -Even though I like earlier U2, Bono has been trying so hard to be the John Lennon of our times..Gallagher and Bono combined have only a fraction of the wit and talent John had.

  • @terrythekittie Lennon hasn't half the lyrical and vocal talent of Bono!

  • @EmitFlestiKY

    And you can't be taken seriously from this point on.

  • @EmitFlestiKY - right Kermit..and Jimi Hendrix can't play guitar and John Bonham can't play the drums.

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  • @terrythekittie

    totally agree. "Bono has been trying so hard to be the John Lennon of our times..Gallagher and Bono combined have only a fraction of the wit and talent John had"

  • John was a pretty cool guy. He retained the charm from the early days.

    With Beatles in mind, I've posted the video, "40 years in 3 minutes", which is a music video containing the Beatles' rooftop performance, historical events over the last 40 years and 8mm film antics from the period, all cut tightly to GET BACK and GLASS ONION. Hope you enjoy!

  • Howard Cosell and John Lennon talking football? Am I having an acid flashback? And John enjoyed hearing one of Paul's tunes?

  • @jbrown1169 I thought that was weird too, but in a pleasant way.

  • TEA PARTIES ???

    Way ahead of his time !!!!!!!

  • Total class act.

  • @87JuliR Well your nerves being the first thing on all American minds - perhaps we are so worried that we need to send our armies down to Argentina take over your corrupt country and only allow American Football, Baseball and Basketball in your house till you die.

  • @87JuliR Quit yelling you dumbass foreign fuckwad!

  • @87JuliR "FUCKING YANKEES. YOU GET ON MY NERVES!"

    Glad to hear it.

  • I'm posting this everywhere as soon as the CBA agreement gets signed with the NFL! -- Rollie

  • john did not write yesterday

  • Lennon wrote, sang, and played all the instruments on "Yesterday".

  • @funkmike Lol you've like the worst troll ever :))) 

  • @funkmike hahaha. you've got that backwards mate.

  • See? Breitbart says Lennon was a repuglican. Why? Because John used the word "TEAPARTY" at 0:24 in this video. Breitbart says that's proof!

  • makes me frustrated because the Beatles never did reunite

  • Love watching old TV. It was different when I was a kid or even before (as in this clip). Wild seeing Lennon pop in for a visit on Monday Night Football of all places.

  • 1:34 Ok, Giffer...over to Giffer :)

  • @sjk72

    LOL Gotta love John!

  • @sjk72 Incredible sense of humour

  • Almost exactly 6 years later Howard Cosell would anounce the death of John Lennon during a monday night football game.

  • a classic moment in anglo-american popular culture.

  • Dear God,

    I have a special offer for you today.

    Today's special offer is a used Lady Gaga AND a clean, unused Justin Bieber for the whopping price of only ONE John Lennon! That's right God, trade our 2 *cough* most valued artists for only ONE John Lennon!

    But wait!-

    If you bring back John Lennon within the next 30 minutes, you also get a FREE complete and PURE set of the Jonas Brothers with it!

    *Payment with Visa, MasterCard and PayPal. Batteries not included*

  • @MrMicklz and i`ll give my psp and my notebook together too ...right.

  • @MrMicklz don't dare mention that kid's name in the same breathe as JL !! You nerd. Besides, it people like you that keep the dork in the limelight! Quit bringing him up all the time and he'll fade away. If not, the bastard will earn his suck sex!

  • @MrMicklz the only reason why this wont work, God doesn't want them either lol!

  • "we have to get over to The Giffer"..howard is referring to frank gifford who is married to born again christian kathee lee gifford..they caught the giffer fucking some chick in a hotel room and she set him up by rigging the hotel room with A hidden video camera and audio...photos of the video appeared in the press and transcripts of the audio came out...my fave was the giffer asked the chick to let him bang her in her ass..also he did not use a condom...poor kathie lee was humiliated by GIFFER

  • Six years later Cosell announces Lennon's death.

  • Football is one thing (Best sport on earth) and Northamerican disgusting football is another thing. Don't call the latter just "football". It's a total lack of respect.

  • @87JuliR You're right that football is the best sport on earth. Soccer isn't, though too many Americans give it an unfair bad rap. I sat entranced watching the World Cup. But the American game is the one sport where sacritice and unselfish teamwork is more critical to winning than any other sport, because if you have one guy who's not willing to sacrifice himself for the team, you have no chance to win.

  • @marquettefootball Shut up dickhead ;)

  • @87JuliR Oh yeah.  There's one other thing. American football fans have more class. Though your response would be rather welcome among Eagles and Raiders fans.

  • @87JuliR Gtfo .

  • Liverpool is the Chicago of England

  • THE BEST FOOTBALL COMMENTATOR RELATIONSHIP EVER!!!!!!!!!

    NO PERSONS COULD EVER BEAT THE COMBINATION OF JLENNON & MR. HOWARD C. (can't remember how to spell last name, not gonna try).

    MNF COULD BE BETTER IF THEY COULD STOP TALKING ABOUT M.JORDAN, AND THE F'UPS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE SUPERBOWL!

    I KNOW M.JORDAN PLAYED B.BALL$BSKT.BALL... NOT A MORON.

    T.J.

  • Mark David Chapman disliked this video.

  • oh man i just love the fact he liked football 

  • Hunter star Fred Dreyer gets a mention by Howard from his days as Freddie Dreyer. And John Lennon is a class act.

  • John Lennon - Class Act

  • What a priceless and uncanny film clip of John with the very man who 6 years later would announce the saddest news of our lifetimes. THANK YOU for posting this!

  • R.I.P.... 2 Legends!

  • Wow, I did'nt know John liked football! Wish he could see this video: rutgers vs louisville starring casey.......... found on youtube............

  • OF ALL THE THINGS TO ASK JOHN LENNON WHEN YOU MEET YOU!

    God damn Yanks.

  • @millyisawesome howard cosell wasnt your usual yank his real name was cohen he went to law school but never practised law he wore a toupe and the people that worked with him thought he was obnoxious

  • @millyisawesome he was a sports guy, calling a football game. what was he supposed to ask him????

  • "yeah, and i promised him i'd mention his album out now, and i said i wouldn't mention my own which is out now too, forget it."

    haha. (: i ♥ john.

  • A slight on Paul w/ "Yesterday"....LOL.

    RIP John.

  • That's the most diplomatic I've ever seen the guy.

  • A.b. football in england....good poit...same shit...b,t,way like how he 

  • oh John you're such a sports jock [not] LOL ((°J°))

  • @basilrose Actually he loved football but just the English kind...lol.

  • Rugby is way better than American Football

  • Rugby is way better than American Football

  • @Pagra101 nigga fuck u get yo fuckin pussy ass bull out here, man u pussy, them rugby players can play with those mean muggin ace boon coons, y'all aint hood like us nigga

  • MY GOD, John actually being genuinely nice, now that's rare.

  • @JM4EDR John was a nice bloke inside just extremely defensive b/c of his rough life growing up.

  • May Pang said that Lennon really wanted a reunion.. but Yoko told him he do well by himself. oh well. it could've happend. (just watched a BBC documentary last last night)

  • @iamarden May Pang used to lick John Lennons balls while Harry Nillson watched.

  • Aww Yesterday teared him up. That's cute. He misses Paul. :(

  • This was the day before my third birthday!

    Dawn

  • wow this is really funny to see these guys together but I am really surprised John Lennon said probably that meant only a maybe It really sounded like he was certain about really getting back together with the beatles in like a year or two but I guess that bitch brainwashed him after she watched his interview on monday football with cosell he probably would of never got shot if they went back together because all the beatles had each others back lennon and harrison would of been alive still

  • @coololds85 George died of cancer.

  • What a gem. John looked so happy here. God bless ya old son I miss ya.

  • @truthinlifeful Six years almost to the day.

  • The myth that John was happy in '79 80' just look at him at that time. Getting away from Yoko and working on his songs in Bermuda for DF helped him but he was struggling. He looks healthy and HAPPY in 1974 during his lost weekend. He reunited with Paul and was going to go to New Orleans with May Pang and sit in with the McCartney's while they made Venus & Mars. Breaks my heart that never happened ..

  • TWO LEGENDS TALKING TO EACHOTHER, WOW

  • Class act. What a loss. Howard would be the one who announces his death 6 years later.

  • MAKES ROCK CONCERTS LOOK LIKE TEA PARTIES HAHA R.I.P JOHN <3

  • haha...John said Tea parties.

  • Yeah the Beatles got back together between 1995-1996 the 3 living 1's that is :~)

  • Very interesting video....

  • "I promised I wouldn't mention my own, which is out now too." See, guys? See? I told you John was awesome.

  • Who says John wasn't a charmer. 

  • amazing that almost 6 years to the day of interviewing him, cosell would anounce john's death live r.i.p. john lennon

  • Such a sweet man. Happy birthday, John.

  • Interesting.

  • Lennon sounds like he could have been a jock!! This is so cool. What a great guy he was.

  • John and Howard, two great Americans

  • @filmerado yeah dont forget prince charles and david beckham too

  • God damn. All respect to Lennon but Corsell Had the voice you cant stop listening to. It was a treat to hear him talk.

  • John we are love you

  • I have no doubt that they would have done some sort of collaboration at some point, but like most people I say-that is just conjecture-we will never know, but my gut instinct says that most people dont hold grudges against other people for too long. The ten years they spent apart were just about right to lead to a reunion.

  • "OK, Giffer, over to Giffer, bye bye..."

    Perhaps the greatest farewell in Monday Night Football history, and only topped by his statement on football: "...it's an amazing sight, makes rock concert look like tea parties." IF THAT doesn't endeer you...

    I sincerely hope Mr. Lennon got to see many more games and learn the rules of football before his tragic demise...hopefully he threw a football--and with Lennon, every throw would've been spiralling through the sky (with Diamonds!) ;)

    RIP

  • Was he at an LA rams game?

  • @senorcardgage678 probably was nov 4 game against the 49ers or dec 9 against redskins those were 2 games in 1974 rams were on

  • @richmjr67 I'm guessing the Dec 9 game at the LA Coliseum. The Nov 4 game was at Candlestick in SF. 1974 would have been while John and Yoko were seperated, he was spending time with May Pang in LA. Also Ringo's album that he references ( Goodnight Vienna) was released on Nov 15 1974, so it would have been out on Dec 9, but not Nov 4. over to the Giffer, bye bye.

  • I LOVE YOU LENNON!!! You're the LSD king ;)

  • He called Yesterday a "Beatles" tune and it cheered him up. I love that.

  • @iwillstom , The Yesterday crack went right over my head until I read your comment. Thanks!

  • @iwillstom Lennon loved that song and admired Paul for writing and performing it. Later on, he used it for its rhetorical power in slamming Paul at the perigee of their friendship. The reference, a pun really, from his "How Do You Sleep?" cut, was "The only thing you done was Yesterday / Now since you're gone you're just another day" ...which pointed to his No. 2 hit (No. 1 in the UK) single, "Another Day" released in 1970. John's cool. So is Paul. I miss the Beatles. Don't you, sports fans?

  • Ironicly Howard Cosell annouce John Lennon's death on a future broadcast of Monday Night Football, so sad!

  • Say, when I was a kid in 1994 scouring record sales, conventions and every other avenue to glimpse moments like this - that one day, the Lennon we lost to America would turn up for free in Gems like this!!

    Thank U USA!

  • liverpool fc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • What team did Lennon play for?

  • McCartney made the point that the Beatles would have gotten back together, to at least record a few tracks on the Anthology DVD set. It probably would have happened in the mid to late 80's if he had not been killed.

  • @BODYSLAMwrestling While I'm sure John would have been excited as hell about taking part in the Anthology project, I still can't picture a reunion in the studio or on stage.

  • Yes, Fred Dryer went on to play "Hunter"

  • 6 years later, it was from Cosell that many Americans heard that John had been killed.

  • Didn't "Freddy Dryer" go on to play "Hunter"?

  • so beautiful

  • He's right. Nothing's like soccer!

  • LOL announcers back in the day had such boring personalities.

  • A nice example of when John was being a nice guy and not a bitter, conceited egoist

  • Seems like a really nice fellow--I love his music still.

  • Speaking of Yoko, I was 12 when the Beatles disbanded, so I never had the perspective people a few years older than me regarding trashing her....she obviously meant a lot to him!

  • Wow! This clip is ancient. When I first viewed thought it might be closer to '80. The thirtieth anniversary of John's death will be later this year.

    Thanks for the clip of a brief candid interview.

  • People forget the reason he did this appearance was because nobody was buying his albums bck then. All the way up right to Double Fantasy his career was pretty much shot, he couldn`t even get a record deal. He didn`t record safe songs like Paul McCartney. And people who bash Yoko, Lennon was pretty much broke when he met her. Apple has destroyed him financially and she was the one who invested what little money he had and made him a millionaire.

  • @JamesTKirkCobain Mmm... no, john was not broken when he met her. he met her in 1966 or 1967, Apple did not exist then. And even after Apple, John was not broke.

  • lovely man

  • As I understand it, Ronald Reagan was in the booth at the same time, and he actually gave Lennon "American Football 101," and two guys on seemlingly opposite ends of the spectrum became good buds. True story?

  • I didn't know he dug American football...

  • what a nice polite normal guy John was. and thats all he was. now he is gone. its horrible

  • @dkstryker

    you do not know john lennon at all....polite? normal???

    john was a true Genius and as such he was also a crazy and troubled person. it doesn't make one cent less great, but polite and normal he sure was not.

  • @popmalevoo of course he was that man you said he was. he even says it in his book. he mentions that in order to become a peaceful guy, you have to be an abusive person verbally or physically or somthin like that. but i remember reading somthing like that in the rolling stone interviews book from 1980. i know what you speak of man and your right but he wasnt like that by the time of his 2nd child being born.

  • Class act!

  • And by the guy interviewing him no less. Irony is a bitch.

  • 6 years later his death was announced on Monday Night Football.

  • I myself might be shot for saying this... but perhaps its for the best that the Beatles never reunited. Don't get me wrong, it would have been GREAT... but think about it- you think of the Beatles, you instantly think of the 1960s. They ARE the Sixties, and still transcend it, so powerful... maybe that specialness would be lost if they reunited, they'd be the Stones- a great band, but not LEGENDS (they had the perfect beginning and ending in their story already, how do you top that?)

  • @obiwanobiwan13

    However, if John and George are keen on coming back to us and literally ressurecting the Beatles, I think the whole Western World would be so overcome with shock and joy it'd be instant peace...

    And a hell of a show. ;)

  • Amazing!

    xoxo

    The Clarences

  • LOVE Ringo Starr FOREVER!!!

  • RIP JOHN :(

  • American footballs wank

  • AquaChevy96  Too right bud, only thing better would be Beatles playing at half time. Too bad, too late.

  • Throughout the 1970s, every interview w/ a Beatle of course had the obligatory get back together question. Even Cosell had to ask the question. Ironically 6 years later Cosell was the one who broke the news to a lot of us that Lennon had been shot...

  • sarcasm, am I right? (if i'm not you'd have to be living under a rock not to hear of him.) @alehi1

  • @PixieDust1996 sarcasm to a T. of course i know who john lennon is.

  • Johns face when Howard mentions fred dryer, he's like what the fuck man I'm John Lennon who's this Dryer clown....

  • I love the way John Lennon did interviews. He was just being HIMSELF. But MILLIONS of celebrities have taken after John in the way they do interviews. Robin Gibb is one of the worst I've seen that's just a mockery of John in interviews. As somebody once said, It's always better to be a 1st rate version of yourself than a 2nd rate version of someone else.

  • @wilsondylanmccartney u rite i always thought that these rock stars we see today they copy like his way of talkin in a interview, but they are actin and john was just natural.

  • @ifuckyoursister20 Celebrity worship nauseates me, but not as much as egotistical, snob, bratty celebs who think they're owed sum'thn &/or deserve the attention. Listen up y'all, theys just people, same as us! EXACTLY the same. Yea on average, some have more money, but some don't. Some are intelligent, some aren't. Some are nice, some are whiny A-holes in desperate need of a slap in the mouth. Imagine if everybody stopped paying attention to them, & started treating/em like ordinary folks!

  • @wilsondylanmccartney The person who said that was Judy Garland. =)

  • Two people I've always liked

  • Funny people say that God & Jesus cause wars; you might as well say that Guns cause wars; bombs cause wars; what you own (things) cause wars; footballs cause wars; soccer causes war ---- shoot the reality is that PEOPLE cause wars....and that's the fact. PEOPLE, in bread with selfishness, cause wars. Stop blaming everything else as the cause and look inside yourself.....it's people who blow up others, pull the trigger, kill and destroy. People need to be cured....and that's the need.

  • Can we stop Talking about Religious Rubbish in here. This is the great Howard Cossell & John talking American Football.

    God is just a concept by which we measure pain....

  • You expect me to believe Jesus Christ was the son of God because a bunch of old men decided he was hundreds of years AFTER his death in some fabulous fairy-tell book?

  • A Classic !! Rest In Peace -- John Lennon!! A Mellow 5!! This clip from 1974 will be remembered for his appearance on ABC's "Monday Night Football" as an all time favorite.