Re: Howard Cosell - 1983 KY Derby Post Parade (500 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: September 17, 2007 06:02PM
...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.
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