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- John Lennon was announced dead by Howard Cosell on a Monday Night Football game . Miami Dolphins vs the Patriots... First time ever we bring you the TWO times Howard told the world John was DEAD...Brought to you by Tom LaPorte, Top Line Productions TLP
Only Howard Cosell can make a death announcement sound like a failed 3rd down and long.
Good one
Well done
Yep!
👍
F
In the football game off life, it could be considered a failed 3rd and long.
The way he said "Dead on arrival" made it sound like he was talking about a failed play, his voice is just built for sportscasting
Steve Padilla nice profile pic homie. Where u sit?
He’s trying to keep calm and composed
Yeah and after he said "dead on arrival" I was expecting him to say that The Beatles now have to punt.
1:02 "dead on arrival"
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I wanna visit America one day, but Im scared of all the shootings and killings.
Why is this all of a sudden showing up on all our YT feeds? Bizarre.
@Jalapeno Black And a video of how to properly seal a coffin in a burial vault... which of course I will watch.
We're approaching the anniversary of John Lennon's death
@@GMC-610 I swear I read that as *Black* government pushes things to appear lmao! 🤣🤣🤣
Spies 👀
To honor an icon
He handled it like a pro, and Lennon was a friend of his. I miss Howard, one of a kind.
Lennon was a friend of mine too, we used to play COD on PS2 all the time. RIP homie
no, he handled it like a pompous ass.
John and Howard were friends? In what alternate universe?
Well, considering John Lennin himself was a pompous ass and total creep, I guess Howard called it perfectly.
@@theecharmingbilly yeah but we are talking about the anouncement of someone's death, I think it was.very classless..
If anyone is wondering, the dolphins won...
Stephen A thanks silly goose
Stephen A lol dolphins have went undefeated
Absolutely nobody was wondering.
@@antigonish63 Awww, poor baby... Don't let feelings affect you so much. 😂
🐬🐬🐬🐬
Howard Cosell really just does have the football announcer voice.
Yoshikage Kira
My stand Killer Queen has already touched this comment section
Howard Cosell was a pompous ass.
He was bad at announcing boxing matches either.
How does he have sex bro
"He could go... ALL.. THE.. WAY!!!
I can’t even imagine getting the news this way.
“Wait, what!?!”
Yes, woefully inappropriate of old howard. Glad he is long gone. What a twit.
@@johnswaim3919 well, he didn't want to do it, but he was told to announce it
SeaDub II this was a very big deal at the time
@@toms.8833 still is
@Frank Bartolone back then how did you react?
That "Dead... On... Arrival" gives me chills everytime
Me too. So haunting.
How often do you watch it?
Yeah. This gave me chills hearing it again. Decades later.
That is how murder can happen sometimes that why I always live my everyday like it could be my last day and I pray for God to let me live longer because of my children and my Grandchildren also.
I was ten and was shocked. My sister was sixteen and was horrified. My brother was 22 and was inconsolable.
WHEN JOHN SMITH’S STATS POPPED UP AS HE SAID JOHN LENNON I THOUGHT IT WAS LENNON’S STATS
Boers best comment 😂😂
Bro I can relate
Boers STATUS - RETIRED
@@happycalcium YARDS : -20
stop yelling!
i’ll see y’all in 9 years when this gets recommended again
U to bro
Alex M don’t forget about me bro
NOiRE LHB i gotchu
Mr. Fahrenheit you too
I'll see you in nine videos when you make this same damn comment
The announcer made it sound like John Lennon was in the game or something.
"The announcer" is freaking Howard cosell. Know more than things that happened under 5 years ago!
@@kerrymei6822 who the fook?
@Kaede let's say I do..that doesn't change your lack of knowledge of american culture that precedes the advent of Facebook.
@Kaede so Alexander the great is equal to famous SPORTS announcers who many comedians imitated, who interviewed and covered people alive today! Hello? The man covered multiple sports . including Mohammad Ali. And George for man. I know people from a generation behind me, why can't u?
Kerry Mei Americans think Europe is a country, you’re not known for your knowledge.
I was watching that night. I also remember Cosell, saying to no one in particular:
"Why would anyone want to shoot John Lennon?"
Damn
Howard Cosell interviewed Lennon a few times and they seemed to share a mutual respect. I can identify with what I perceive as Cosell's disgust when he says "shot twice in the back." It's like hearing the news of Lennon's death from one of his friends. I don't tear up very often, but watching this always sets off the water works -- even if I just watched it just a second ago. Such a waste of human life and artistic creativity. It marked the end of perhaps the must fertile era of popular music, announced during the backdrop of a football game.
Wow....they should have had that too
My mom had the exact same thought at the time. She answered her own question by saying "a crazy person."
Jealousy
“ Dead. On. Arrival.”
*HHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMM* yeah idgaf
@@IsraelCountryCube Who cares
That's how the older generation talked back then, stern, straight to the point, i remember my liberal sister waking me and Mom up saying that her and my brother where watching this ballgame and they said John Lennon had been shot and died. It was a sad thing terrible thing and I'm not liberal by any means. ✌💔🎼🎶🇺🇸🇬🇧
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@@AllPileup in other words "DOA" another cool phrase the older generation had. New generation sucks period•
Fan: watches the game
Howard: John Lennon was shot and killed
Fan: *W H A T T H E F U C K*
This style of comment is gay.
@@hellonwheels9149 ,WHAT?
Tim Watson I agree it’s stale now and I personally never thought it wasn’t gay
@@DrunkenSlob Almost EVERY goddamn TH-cam video is infected with those stupid comments, the other one I can't stand is starting the sentence with "When." These people are sheep that need to imitate every trend they see.
bassage13 exactly. I don’t even see the satisfaction in getting all of those likes for posting something unoriginal and overused it seems too easy and cheap
I was watching that night. Never in a million years would I have imagined that John Lennon would be murdered, and that I would learn of his death from Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. Like millions of fans, I burst into tears. I felt like I'd personally been robbed of most of my childhood. Of course I grieved for his family, but I was a member of John Lennon's larger family, which was the whole world.
1401minsrel* you weren't alone! IMAGINE!♥️John Lennon ,Earth is sending Love up November 23 2019
By 1980 I had received news of the deaths of several people that I actually knew personally. A cousin killed in a war, a couple of drug overdoses, car accidents, and at least one murder. Some musician being killed, no matter how famous, didn't affect me all that much. It wasn't good news, obviously, and it was surprising that he was murdered, but people die every day.
Patrick Morgan damn you sure look tough bragging about how many people you know died.
@@omnipepper3665 I wasn't bragging. You apparently aren't smart enough to get my point.
Patrick Morgan kinda were
43 years ago. I was watching the game. My wife was in her 9th month of pregnancy with the first of our 4 kids. My eyes filled with tears.
December 10, 2023
WOW INCREIBLE . VIVA JOHN LENNON Y LOS BEATLES . GOD BLESSYOU HI FROM MEXICO
RIP Howard, Don, and Frank
Jesse Lockhart Ringo. LIP!
Your right Jesse, never thought of it, all 3 announcers are gone now.
Actually, on this night...it was Howard, Frank, and Fran Tarkenton...
rip chester
RIP Kelly Groucutt.
I can't even imagine the utter shock of hearing this live. Lennon was one of the most famous people in the world. Beloved by hundreds of millions around the globe.
I could not either. That was until yesterday when it was Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash. My heart dropped into my stomach, and I was in utter shock for hours. I really couldnt believe it. I heard from several that that is exactly what Lennon's death was like.
It made me sick to my stomach when I heard this news live watching the game. I wish I could forget it, but I know I never will.
I was watching the game in the living room when the phone rang in the kitchen. No cells, of course, so I got up and went to answer it. So... in one ear, my older brother - who had introduced me to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan on February 9, 1964 - was saying, "John's dead" while my husband came running into the kitchen saying, "Howard Cosell just said John Lennon's been killed." At the same time. I hung up and dialed the number to the Denver Post - we had an ad in the paper and had the phone number on a notepad next to the phone. When the operator answered, she was crying. All I could do was ask and she said, "It's true." The phone kept ringing with our friends and my family calling, it truly was a death in the family. Later that night, my husband and I couldn't think of what to do, but needed to do... something, so we drove to the chapel on our university campus where we had gotten married, expecting it to be empty, but of course, it was full. Finally, someone thought to go knock on the door of the university chaplain who came over right away. He opened the sacristy and found some small candles for us all to hold and then said Psalm 23 (Yea, though I walk...), the Lord's Prayer and talked for about 3 minutes about John and his music, said a prayer for John's family - his sons and the aunt who raised him and his 'Beatle brothers' (I remember that so well). It was just perfect for the moment. To be honest, the ten minutes of silence up at Red Rocks (where they had played in 1964) wasn't as impactful because people were just wandering around and didn't know what to do - some tried to sing, someone had brought a recorder, but the amp didn't work, so no one could hear it. It was bitterly cold and windy. I'll remember the spontaneous gathering at the university chapel around midnight.
@@22_cincatt I was eating a ham sandwich when when Cosell made the initial announcement that he had been shot. Needless to say, I lost my appetite. I was 17 and had been a huge Beatles fan ever since I could remember. In the year preceding his death, I had really gotten into John's solo work, especially Plastic Ono Band, which made his murder even more painful.
@@musclehamster4120 no offense but lennon is bigger
Back when the dolphins could beat the patriots boy times have changed
The dolphins have best the patriots once every year for that past few years
Seezy yeah pats usually struggle down in Miami. Probably the hardest of their division games. Case in point: Miami miracle
Jon Robichaud they beat them in Miami 5 times in a row besides this year...
They still can. They just aren't good enough to win their division.
You don’t remember last year?
I was watching this live. I was 17 at the time, and it was devastating. Watching it today, 40 years later, I was almost overcome.The Beatles were always my favorites, and I never gave up the hope that someday they'd record together again. And on this evening, everything was wiped away in an instant. No undo buttons back then. And then we lost Bob Marley a year later. Perhaps the most important voices in their respective genres.
..... the reason we lost Marley is because he was murdered, also.....A victim of the C.I.A.'s 'black messiah' hitlist.....the cancer Marley died from was injected into him by force as a bio-weapon,.....like ricin.
Dam.i was born a year later
I always wondered if people in the Orange Bowl were listening to the radio and heard the news and how the news spread around the stadium--I wonder if the public address announcer in the stadium also announced it
@@luadinverno7778 I was born a year before.
End handgun violence now
i can't imagine the shock ppl must've felt to just randomly hear this news in the middle of a football game.
Neither did I until 2 days ago with Kobe.
Please do not compare Kobe with John Lennon. John’s contribution to the world was million times greater.
@ it’s not for you to call . Both were profoundly significant people who touched the hearts of many .
Eerie and tragically poetic in a almost cinematic way that the player that happened to be in close up was called John too and he looks straight at the camera during Howard’s anouncmemt . One John in the prime and heat of his life . Another sadly beyond the end of his .
Yes
I remember this night like it was yesterday...I was 18 years old at the time, and a huge Beatles fan. Ironically, by the time I even knew what the Beatles were...they had been broken up for 2-3 years.
My friend and I in middle school became hooked on the Beatles, and would tape radio recordings when we could.
The night John died, I was in the family room with my dad and brother watching MNF, when HC told the world John had been shot and passed...my dad didn't understand why they would interrupt a "football game" to talk about a "drugged out commie" who nobody could care less about....it was at that moment I knew my dad, brother, and I would never be on the same life path...I was devastated, and my family thought I was the one with problems....what a joke
I had the exact same experience Michael! Exact!
Katie, I'm referring to Michael Johnson, the guy who posted on this thread, NOT Michael Jackson.
Katie Stevens
that was pretty stupid Katie...
Katie Stevens shut yo stupid ass up bitch
Willie Gordon STFU stupid I don't know why she bring up Michael for
I wasn't watching the game. I was sitting outside on my car in front of my friend Brian's house in Paramus. We were smoking cigarettes and having a beer while listening to music. I don't remember the song that was playing. It was interrupted with the news of John Lennon being shot and killed. It was devastating.
is that kind of exact moment that you´re always remember, such a lost for the world, i always wonder about what lennon will be doing today...
If you were listening to wplj (which was "album oriented rock" at that time), they were playing Killer Queen by Queen when that song was interrupted to make the announcement. I didn't hear it. My next door neighbor told me about it the next day. I was already asleep by that time (it was about 11:00 PM).
Omg ur friends name is brian like brian may and your last name is taylor like roger Taylor :0
@@geraldobrien7323 Dang u have quite the memory. kinda creepy how it was "killer queen" that was playing
@@geraldobrien7323 I learned about it in the morning too. I was in 10th grade.
I was 10 years old, watching this live with my dad, who'd been a Marine in Vietnam. When Cosell announced the news, my dad was silent for a moment then made a sound like someone had kicked him in the chest. It was the first and only time I'd ever seen him cry.
why. why on earth would he be hurt because of one guy dying
@@fingersmcoy if your not a Beatle fan or John Lennon fan you wouldn’t understand. John Lennon is one of the greatest musicians to ever live.
@@mashedpotato64 I think his music is boring and dull. But that doesn't matter. I didn't know the guy
That's racist as hell for him to be sad when a privileged white male died.
@@fingersmcoy
Gen Z 😂😂😂😂
I was watching this game as a kid arguing with my mom to stay up late when they annpunced this. My mom started crying. I went to bed.
Yeah dude she prob got screwed by your dad listening to hey jude
K. Benzema Is God not that that’s a bad thing...
K. Benzema Is God and ironically is Paul’s song rather than johns.
annpunced....hmmm. Add an h in there and there's something that works? annpunched this. Anna punched. annapunched this. Hmmm.
K. Benzema Is God ......sad bastard....
I was 15 and had just gotten home from confirmation class. My folks were watching MNF and called me to come watch when Cosell made the first announcement. It was 43 years ago to the day and it still stings like a mother. 43 years gone but never to be forgotten. We miss you John (and George, too).
I was 21 and still at my parents place, downstairs in my bedroom, Dad yelled for me to come upstairs and there was an urgency in his voice. He told me that Howard Cosell had announced that John Lennon had been killed. Then my folks said the color had been drained from my face. Knowing how I loved The Beatles and John in particular, they both asked if I was okay and I lied that I was. Almost immediately, my phone rang, with friends calling. I had to take it off the hook so I could listen to the radio and cry my heart out. Years later, I heard Cosell's announcement and while it sent chills down my spine, I must say he was eloquent and respectful, a real mensch.
Then, and ever since I have thought that John and I are/were cut from the same cloth from an emotional standpoint.
Forty years ago today. What a depressing day that was...
Same length as his life
Yeah that really ruined the Patriots' season. Cost them the division title.
I remember that night. Sad for many reasons😢
@@srujan00 And forty years later, no one remembers or gives a crap about the 1980 Patriots team, but they sure remember John Lennon.
This might be one of the times that people cared less about the football game even though they are watching it. RIP John Lennon
hey
I doubt it. Nothing will shake a true football fan.
well he said God is dead and allegedly didn't believe in an afterlife, so that's a wrap.
@@fastfootedone so you're saying he's right. I guess what they say is true. A privileged white males life truly doesn't matter 😅. One less racist in this world. Good riddance!
@@anonymousviewer4750 Except for Colin Kneeling Crappernik.
Watched this when it happened and knew something was up when Howard said "this is just a football game", which really sounded weird coming from him since he hyped sporting events more than anyone back then. Lennon had just recorded a new album for the first time in several years. I remember breaking the news to my parents by saying "there won't be any Beatles reunions now". In the next six months the President and the Pope were both shot. This was a particularly dangerous time to be a famous, high profile person.
Bob Marley.
The new album, "Double Fantasy". My favorite is his first solo album, "Plastic Ono Band", pure John (with Yoko on the brain).
Howard: John Lennon was shot and killed
Me: what kind of play is that?
*Team sets up in shotgun formation
Bloke Jr no pistol
Quarter back throws a shotgun pass 💀
Seems kinda weird today. Al Michaels wouldn't stop commentating the game to say lil wayne got shot.. 😅🍻
@@Adam-de8jm Upon further review the receiver was hit in the back and down by contact. The play is dead.
The following day, a minute of radio silence was held worldwide. I was in college at the time. The instructor stopped the lecture for the full minute. Everyone, teachers and students were crying so hard that most classes just dismissed everyone. It was really emotional.
What fine college did you attend ??
I went about my day as usual. I was a Beatles fan but I'd never met any of them. Not like a family member or close friend had died. Can't understand why people get so emotional about someone they had never met.
I had forgotten all about that moment of silence. I was "listening" as well.
Weird.
I was coming out of the shower at Parsons School of Design and the news broke. The line at the hallway payphone was already 30 people long. I was a huge Beatles fan and everyone was concerned about me. I chose to wear a pretty outfit as I sat in my dorm, silent. I could not even consider taking the subway uptown to The Dakota. I had to be by myself. After that I wore all black for a month, even at Christmas.
That next year, December of 2020, will be _forty years_ since the tragically sudden loss of John Lennon is stunning to me. I still remember listening to this game on an ABC affiliate FM radio station just after I had left work as though this happened only last month.
I remember warming-up my new car in the cold that night. My headlights were shining on a light covering of snow and as the heater warmed the interior the 'new car smell' was in full bloom. Then I heard Howard Cosell make the announcement and it floored me. I still had a fourteen mile drive ahead of me.
Quit trying to be a writer
Charlie D trump 2020 🤟🏻🤟🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@kirkcattlecompany6803 😬😬😬 if he doesn't get impeached
Juan Reza sad part is dems just can’t see that with trump we are winning as a country
TralfazConstruction ok boomer
"Remember, this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An *unspeakable tragedy has just occurred where--*"
"It's hard to go back to the game after that." [ONE second pause] "Indeed, it is. Three seconds remain......"
Hard but not impossible.
I was watching that night. I'll never forget that announcement.
RIP John. I can't believe you've been gone 35 years today.
+Ryan Blanche Same!
+Ryan Blanche DONT SEEM LIKE ITS BEEN THAT LONG I WAS 10 WHEN THIS HAPPENED
LIVE IN CONNECTICUT THEY PLAYED LENNON ALL DAY THE NEXT DAY ON WRCH HARTFORD,CT
+Edward Koepke I live in connecitcut too
CRUMMY STATE WE LIVE IN HUH? MALLOYS AN ASSHOLE NO WONDER PEOPLE ARE MOVING OUT
Edward Koepke definitely :/ I live in torrington, you?
I remember this like it was yesterday - 35 years ago I was watching this game. Shocked and stunned by what Howard Cosell said. It was just not possible. Then a few minutes later, all the local NYC news TV and Radio confirmed the impossible. Innocence was lost. The end of and era. The next day at school. All the students and teachers did was play Johns music and talk about his impact on our lives. RIP John Lennon - I think, had that murderer not taken his life. John would have made a much better impact on our world post 1980 - Give Peace A Chance - RIP John Lennon
It is certainly a tragedy, but John Lennon was not a nice guy.
***** Well, he was apparently not nice to people in person, was quite arrogant, the minute he fell in love with Joko Ono he started always putting her first to the detriment of others, etc.
Great music, a shame he died so horribly, but not a kind person unfortunately.
How would you know? Really?
+ThisIsRyan John Lennon was a flawed man..
But he was a man. He had certainly had his bad, he made me upset looling back; but, he certainly had his good as well.
We dont do him any justice trying to paint him with broad strokes: he was a complicated human being, who fought good and bad, won some battles and lost some battles, and tried to do the best he could with what he knew how.
Like you and me.
@Danny Branderson
"But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao, You ani't gonna make it
with anyone anyhow" .....hardly the words of a "commie" you stupid little boy.
40 years ago and still as sad and shocking to hear. Wow. An unspeakable tragedy, indeed.
RIP John Lennon. 😔
He funded terrorism.
I remember this vividly. I was watching this broadcast at the time.
When he said "remember this is just a football game..." I felt that
U knew things weren’t good wen u hear that
first michael jackson and now john lennon? i just want 2019 to end already
William Steele actually it was first John lennon, then michael jackson
I can’t tell if you’re kidding
Give 'im a break guys, he may be caught in a Mandela loop...just sit down and breathe William Steele.
First we need you to know this is the reality where it's spelled Berenstain, life was like a box of chocolates, we may or may not have gone to the Moon and Pearl Harbor was not the first foreign attack on American soil...k you good now?
Lisa M lm ao
guys it was a joke thanks for ruining it
I remember that announcement. I was only 9 years old and I was about to go to bed. It was about 12:12AM way past my bedtime.
I was 14 years old and in bed, not yet asleep. My mom came upstairs to tell me.
I was in the US Army AIT and that very moment our Drill Sergeants stopped what they were doing to tell us that someone just killed John Lennon. That is something you just don’t forget.
Check out the kicker, John Smith who was from England, looking up at the camera right as Cosell makes the announcement. Almost like he heard it. Eerie.
John Smith looking up at camera was indeed eerie !
1:05?
Also his kick was blocked. Just like the chant 'block that kick' that was heared during 'Revolution #9. Damn spooky.
I was in a bar on LI watching the game. As soon as Cosell made the announcement, I hopped in my car and drove to the Dakota. By the time I got there, there were thousands in tears, holding candles and singing his songs. Incredibly sad. 😔
Was watching this live as a 13 year old.. said WTF..?!? then..
Still saying WTF 43 years later..
I was driving a taxi when I heard the news over the radio. Me and my passenger just sat in stunned silence, occasionally glancing at each other in the rear view mirror as if we both knew that there could be no words to express what we were feeling.
"This is just a game."
"What a strange thing for a sportscaster to say," I thought, "especially from Howard Cosell, of all people."
Then he dropped the bomb.
Not believing what I'd just heard, I went and turned on the radio. Up and down the dial, every station in the NYC tri-state area was playing Lennon and Beatles records.
Within the hour the other tv stations had live telecasts of the crowd outside the Dakota. I had the next day off from work and school but I didn't want to go into town and join in.
I don't know how long it took to get past the initial shock - it may have been an hour, it may have been a couple of days - but my first coherent thought about this was, "Excuse me? Shitstain? Yeah, you. YOU DON'T FUCKING WASTE A BEATLE!!!!!"
+TJ Cassidy Howard Cosell actually had a news background. Even after he became "the mouth that roared," Cosell continued for many years to host a Sunday night show on WABC Radio in New York called "Speaking of Everything," which was anything BUT a sports show (a second version of that aired on the national ABC Radio network). Many outside New York never knew that side of Cosell.
and lennon was once a guest...
on Howard Cosells radio show..
Well..it IS just a game..a pretty dumb one at that lol..
Yes, but their uniform was way, way better in those good old days..
You know it’s big when the sports announcers have to interrupt the game to tell you something.
The most dramatic example of that was probably involved Al Michaels prior to the scheduled Game 3 of the 1989 World Series when the 1989 Bay Area earthquake occurred...immediately prior to a game involving the two teams from the Bay Area, the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's. Michaels became the de facto news reporter on site for ABC News.
@@chipmillard5043 I think about that and I also think to when they had to interrupt a baseball game to announce Bin Laden’s death
Remember watching this with my dad when I was 6. I remember him having to leave the room for a minute to regain his composure. He came back about 10 minutes later looking totally defeated and didn't say much of anything the rest of the game.
My little boy and I were at my moms waiting for my husband to get back from a recording session with a couple of his friends and we were watching a rerun of Maude, the one with John Wayne. As John Wayne walked through a door, the local news man interrupted the show and said to repeat earlier news, former Beatle, John Lennon had been murdered in New York. Man, I can't tell you how bad I wanted to cry.. it hurt so bad, having grown up with their music from 1964..I wanted to cry and was too stunned. I cried later and many times since. And listening to this tonight, I cried. God Rest his soul.
I'm crying.... sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come.
well played
My fav
Razzlebathbone Who the eff do you think you are, the walrus?
@@chatman2a But the walrus was Paul ._.
@SebasM Paul is a dead man. Miss him, miss him, miss him !!
Any Murder is bad news, especially someone shooting you in the back while you walk up some steps. What would you feel like, if your dad or friend had been killed for no other reason that they were a successful person trying to do his or her best in life. John Lennon was just a normal person who wrote some great songs, had a family, got on with his life asked for no benefits from UK or USA government, but and is now dead because of his music fame. Killed by the crazed lunatic Chapman who is still in prison. Hopefully that's where he we stay for next 40 years
Live in a small town, we had just come back from a chimney fire at a farmhouse out in the country and heard the news on the radio stunned
I missed the news that night. Woke at 6am to the radio in the kitchen playing, sharing the horrible news. As I lay there, shocked and staring at the ceiling, "I heard the news today, O boy" from A Day in the Life was eerily playing. Heartbreaking! 😢
Unless my memory deceives, you cut off the most resonant thing Howard said. Maybe a play after either of the two announcements. He said, "Sometimes it's hard to figure out life."
39 years later... you are still missed John Lennon.
Missed for what? He enriched himself singing songs...Not like he cured cancer or rescued families Via the fire Department. Just an entertainer and that's it.
And you've done both of those?
@@jimbailey5681 - Rescued people yes, don't do cures, sorry.
@@woodyhayes7402 It's not like he was an activist speaking around the world for peace and the ending of Vietnam. It's also not like millions upon millions of people look up to him for inspiration because of how influential his music was to people. And his music has basically changed everything previously known of music. So, you go and start a band, create 208 songs and 12 album, all of whch have hit No.1 in the U.K, sell 600 Million albums, 1.6 Billion singles, have 20+ singles top the charts in the U.K and U.S, have 40% of the U.S population watch you on T.V, create hysteria upon teenage girls to the point in which you have girls raiding your home just to see you, be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE, have at least one of your songs played on the radio at all times, and bring your band to be the most influential musical group in history and then you can critisize John.
@@therealbomb_com8774 - Great story, do you love/worship a mere man? He gave nothing to society other than songs and enriched himself in the process. He's not important.
I watched this live. My shock and grief led to another, more personal, tragedy. The announcement made me forget I had let my dog out front for what was to be a brief moment. He was hit and killed by a car. Best dog ever. I mourn both events still.
Wow. Thumbs up for your dog!
Was he dead on arrival?
Sorry for your loss.
@@slipjones2 Thank you
@@NickCager 😂😂😂😂
I don’t remember much anymore but I remember watching this game with one of my older brothers in his room on his black and white tv.
My other bro, who was a big Beatles fan (still is), just hopped into the shower after coming home from work. I yelled through the restroom door (Brother! John Lennon died!)
Immediately he turned off the shower 🚿 and clothed back up to see the news on tv.
Sorry about the TMI but that’s how detailed my memory is of this day 40 years ago. Lord have mercy.
My other
When Cosell started delivering the bad news, I thought "What can be more important than a game with playoff implications?" When Cosell announced that Lennon had been shot, I immediately tuned in to the Local Hard Rock FM station KSJO to learn more. They were playing "Imagine." The rest of the week the radio stations were playing Beatles tunes nonstop.
The news is still a shock.
It will always be a shock.
RIP John Lennon.
Zooiey Rae dumbest least funny thing i've ever heard
Zooiey Rae its ok
George Vreeland Hill true
So if I tell you right now John Lennon was shot and killed you would be shocked by the news?
@@robertyacobozzi9435 good one 😁👍
My dad was watching the game . He came in my room and told me. I'm glad I heard it second hand.
I was only six, but I remember my dad watching the game and saying "Somebody shot John Lennon?!" He and my mom just sat there stunned. It was only after she pointed him out on the Let It Be album (in heavy rotation at our house) that I saw how sad she was and how much his murder affected people.
I remember watching that game with my father and brother. We are from New England, and we just heard Howard Cossel announce the news of John Lennon's tragic death. We watched the news for hours after the game. 🙏Peace and love!
Kobe Bryant's death made me re-watch this.
Ryan Strnad kind of makes you miss all the lost idols, I definitely understand where you’re coming from. It’s like the meme with all the most beloved celebs who’ve left us, pictured together up in the clouds.
Today is the 40th anniversary of John Lennon's death. May he rest in peace.
He's in hell, along with George Harrison.
Why did this come in my recommended when Juice WRLD died?
My daddi Goes meow in all girls are the same he said he felt like John Lennon
Because John Lennon died on December 8th. Juice now shares lennons death day
Merrick Brunker no he died December 9.
PrometheusTV close enough I guess
PrometheusTV nah he died December 8
I still remember this moment. I was doing my high school biology homework to the game.
It was so clear the announcement and hit me like a ton of bricks.
Surreal.
A devastating moment in my life only surpassed by my fathers death.
what about your mother?
John Lennon was his mother!
@@zefallafez lol
I had been asked by a female friend to help out her church choir, which needed an extra tenor for the Handel Hallelujah chorus that they were going to sing on Christmas eve. I was a senior in high school, and very active in the music program. I went, sang, and came home to watch Monday Night Football. There it was. The Announcement. Devastating. I owned every Beatles album, and several Lennon solo albums. A horrible night.
@MICKEYDELFINO
It's like 9/11 and from what I heard the JFK assassination. Such a major event people knew where they were and what they were doing at the time. I was in High School during 9/11. My teacher put the t.v. on and I saw the North Tower on fire. I was working on a project and just glancing at the t.v. and knew there was a restaurant up there and thought it had caught on fire. And as time went on it said a small plane hit it. And then I saw a commercial size airliner hit the second one. That was the fastest 15 minutes in my life.
A sad sidenote from this game, the Dolphins quarterback David Woodley, a talented kid who was the youngest quarterback to ever start a super bowl, would eventually die tragically of liver and kidney disease in 2003 after a long battle with alcoholism. Very sad story.
my died from liver failure from alcoholism when i was 16--best day of my life....
@@dethray1000 Who died?? Your dad?
I grew up listening to the Beatles. When a new album was released we’d go to the record store to get it then sit around with friends listening to it over and over, talking about the songs. I was 22 and in the USAF, watching the game alone on a rare evening off in my apartment in Ft Worth, Texas when Cosell announced Lennon had been murdered.
I broke down and cried harder than I had since my grandad died when I was 5. Lennon and I shared the same birthday, and I’d just heard an interview with him in October where the reporter asked him how it felt turning 40. Lennon said that he was just happy to have survived to see 40, was happy and looking forward to raising his son and enjoying a more peaceful life than the first 40 had been. It felt like I’d been shot in the chest when Howard announced that Lennon had been murdered. I called my girlfriend and was crying hard when I told her. She had never heard me that upset before and said she thought at first that a close family member had been killed. I told it felt just like that.
I wasn't even born yet and I feel as if I lived through this moment. RIP John.
Hey what's up man and you too you
😂
I was not yet born at that time either. I was born in 1999
I was born 12 years after this occurred
When I heard Howard Cosell say that John Lennon had been shot twice in the back and was Dead on Arrival at the hospital, it was almost like time stood still for a couple of moments" I can't express how it effected me emotionally but it was very sad .😥
I was three months old when this happened. What a tragedy.
+Alex & Erika | Travel Vlogs I WAS 10 THEN DONT SEEM LIKE BEEN 35 YRS WOW
+Edward Koepke time goes too quickly!
+Edward Koepke , I was 10 as well, it was my 10th birthday :(
+Alex & Erika | Travel Vlogs I was five days shy of turning seven when this happened.
+Tressa Ray It was my 30th birthday, and I took it very hard. John and his very famous bandmates profoundly affected my life.
I was living in Amherst, Massachusetts and watching this broadcast live on TV. When Howard made the announcement I could not believe it. No social media, no web, no cell phone, no email, no one to call so I just turned off the TV and waited for the next day to come and let me know if this was in fact reality. It was the most shocking TV experience I ever had.
The tone of the voice " dead on arrival " is incredible...40 years ago allready...
0:44
40 years ago today... where does the time go? R.I.P. John Lennon.
There is no time ....only now .
I was a senior in high school and getting ready for bed when the news broke. I cried myself to sleep.
He might have been a dreamer
He's not the only one ✌️💖🌎
Why would you cry over a communist pushing propaganda, especially one you'd never even met?
Based Bear also, even if he was, you can’t be stupid and deny all the incredible influence he had on the music world
@@basedbear1605 if imagine is a communist thing I will choose that because it sounds fuckin great. Yes he talked about utopia which is almost impossible to achieve but the song is called imagine for a reason.
@@romarssieverything9667 Way to show that your mind is easily pliable. It's called pre-programming you nimrod. What a mush mind.
@@basedbear1605 what a great way to reply. NO wonder you hate a simple man who advocated peace
I was 19...first job ...in my dorm room Twizel New Zealand . I was broken hearted. The ultimate peace song popped into my head "imagine". A violent end to a nonviolent man. Why?. A moment etched into my soul forever. 😢😢😢😢
I was a teenager when I heard the news on my Walkman , I was so upset with Humanity that I smashed my Walkman to pieces. RIP John Lennon (🍏 )
Dreams must be nice to destroy Walkmans
@UCcPpqSv03BGGO0uH2xx79gw probably...
I bet most people went to radio shack for one lol...
The days radio shack were relevant
Edwin Hernandez Walkman?! Wow lol. Forgive me, I’m only 31. I thought Walkman came out in the mid/late 80s lol.
So... should you also be arrested for murdering your Walkman? That device was also popular, you know
RIP to the Walkman
41 years ago today. can’t believe we lost him so young. rip to one of the most influential people in modern history. ❤️
I was in college watching the game on TV in the midst of first semester finals. I couldn't believe it. This is STILL one of the most unexpected and shocking things that I have ever heard come across a TV set...
nockanoo62 absolutely!
I was driving through the snow from Chicago to Lake Villa to visit my wife who was on a mini-vacation. I stopped at a Denny's to get a cup of coffee on the way. At that Denny's, everybody had mysteriously stopped working and was watching TV. I joined in. I soon found out why. Lennon was a great man, especially in the music world!
You had your rough periods, you struggled at times, and you shone at others. But always, it was a thrill to watch you play.
Rest in peace, David Woodley.
October 25, 1958-May 4, 2003
@The Boss Fuck you. The guy can't say RIP to someone who was actually in the video?
Nice pass by Woodley there at the end
I'm British and was born in '96 so you can guess I didn't find out the news this way. I've always known that John Lennon was shot and died so it was never a huge shock like for anyone in 1980. Yet... listening to this, I feel something horrible rising up in my chest. Is it anger? Is it sadness? A mixture of both I imagine.
Get over yourself.
YEAHHH DUDE KEEP YOUR EMOTIONS TO YOUR SELF BECAUSE ronstero DOESNT LIKE TO READ HONEST COMMENTS
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i just always imagine having found out about this this way. Must have been stunning, while watching a freaking football match. To me, an interesting document of broadcast news history - completely out of its original bounds. But I read you.
Thanks for your comment (L'Taylor) . I was a teenager, staying up late to watch Monday Night Football and living in Canada then. An awful shock. Cosel, for all the criticism of him in latter years, did a great job conveying this news to the public. It was on elf those moments; like President Kennedy and the Princess of Wales, where you never forget the moment you heard the news. RIP John.
I was watching the game and heard Howard make the announcement.
I was called in to the radio station I worked for to broadcast the news about John, right after the announcement, throughout the night.
Thank you for posting. It was a day that I'll never forget.
I was watching that in my basement, only 8 but even I knew the significance. Everyone listened to the Beatles. Crazy
This was back when the NFL was still a respectable sport.
Not just showbiz !
WTF
The way he said D.O.A. was like he would say 4th, and, 24.... .
Was watching the game in my room when I was a kid. I remember exactly how I felt. I ran into the living room to tell my parents. The Beatles, and my father, made me want to play music. I hugged the radio beside my bed the rest of the night .
We lost one of our greats that day, in 2001 we lost another great, now we only have 2 of the fab 4 left 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
The Beatles are just another boy band, on par with N Sync and the Backstreet Boys.
Dec 8th 2015 marks the 35th anniversary of John Lennons death. His music and his influence will not be forgotten.
Who else wishes John Lennon was still alive!
I'll bet John Lennon does?
I do
John S. Don't be.mean
Me
Yes.
I was 8 years old, parents were still together in our El Cajon, CA house. My dad had the Patriots-Dolphins game on the wood-grained 20-inch TV with analog dials in the living room that Monday night. I was in the living room with my dad playing with my Matchbox City case and "driving" my cars all over that damn thing. I asked my dad to play with the cars with me. He said that he would during halftime. So halftime started and my dad and I were "driving" Matchbox cars all over the fucking place in that living room. The game resumed, and then later on in the second half, Cossell made the announcement about John being shot. My dad jumped out of his seat on the couch and ran into the kitchen to tell my mom who was cooking dinner at the time.
I don't know why exactly, but I loved this story. Thank you.
I smell bullshit. Way too much detail. I call this bullshit story a 4 not because of all the exaggerated details but because of how adamant you are in feeding so much nonsensical details to try and make your fake story believable
I remember this. just felt like breath taken out of me!
Why, on Earth, dont the Dolphins have these gorgeous uniform and color these days? And how could the Patriots discontinue that great helmet logo? Let me know if you agree or disagree.
Because people like to "fix" shit that ain't broke just to please the masses. But I agree with you on both teams.
They looked much better
Both teams had better uniforms back then.
At least for the Patriots, once you win a superbowl wearing a new redesigned uniform, you're stuck with it forever..
Agree
Absolutely remember this, i was watching the game with my dad
I was 8 in the UK, all I got was.
"This is radio 2, One of the beatles has been killed"
I will always remember exactly where I was. I was in Albany New York. It was a bleak early Decemeber night. I was 20 and with my gf in bed. We always listened to the radio and on came the announcement. I turned to her and she got she got tears in her eyes. We couldn't believe it. We were in shock.
I remember my dad was in shock- we were putting up the tree and he was watching the game - i remember my dad immediately turned on the radio and cried - sad ❤🥀