im driving to houston for my moms birthday this morning. yeah she was pretty mmmm saddened on her b-day in '80. if i had a delorean id put a stop to it with my words and my timecar.
Saw a really interesting piece on the MNF announcement of his death. Apparently one of the associate producers of MNF was in a motorcycle wreck that night in NY and was in the ER when John Lennon was brought in. He saw the doctors pronounce him dead, and Yoko freaking out, and he called the guys down in Miami (where the game was being played that night) and told them. Amazing coincidence.
Sort of how it happened. I'm guessing you half heard the SportsCenter piece on it this morning. He didn't see the doctors pronounce him dead. He overheard cops in the ER say "Can you believe it? John Lennon." He asked his doctor what happened and then he heard the screaming, which turned out to be Yoko Ono. That's when he called his news desk in New York...who called ABC News...who then alerted the production van in Miami. They alerted the booth during a commercial break. They had some audio of Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford deciding if they should be the ones to air it and if it should be during a football game. They decided to announce it when they came back from commercial. It was the way millions around America learned the horrible news...by watching Monday Night Football. The man was a master. You wonder what good some would be doing today if they were still alive...John Lennon and Bob Marley immediately come to mind for me.
lulz, you must be 12 and do not know what this means. It takes years to learn the mastery of trolling. You're not even in 1st period yet.
John Lennon the mastermind of the masterminds. The great of the greats. The legend of the legends. :grin:
I was in my freshman dorm at North Texas watching MNF with some buddies. We were having a great time and in the middle of daring each other to chug the juice left over from a jar of jalapenos when Cosell started talking. We just sat and stared at the TV for about 5 minutes. The dorm I was in had a bunch of jazz students and when we wandered down to the common area, there were some folks with instruments already playing Lennon songs in almost a dirge form. People crying everywhere... by themselves, hugging on others... and it was just the most somber damn mood I'd ever been a part of... everyone was in a daze. After a bit, we left the dorm and all around campus, there were impromptu groups of musicians playing Lennon/Beatles. Even late into the night, people were just wandering around the campus listening and singing. This went on for days, but the music got more lively as the shock wore off. After the first couple of days, people were rocking in tribute instead of mourning. Amazing experience that I obviously still think about at times.
