So
total at the time was Cosell's saturation of culture that Irwin Weiner,
an ABC Sports vice president for twenty years, once came up with a
concept for a Saturday morning kids' series called "Monday Night
Football: The Cartoon", one that would turn Cosell, Gifford and Meredith
into animated characters.
This isn't as bad an idea as it sounds, given the success of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and the animation of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" and "The Harlem Globetrotters."
Weiner was told the first person he needed to get approval from was Cosell. Having never met him, Weiner swallowed hard and set up a meeting at Cosell's office. But he had barely begun to pitch the project when he was silenced.
"Young man," he was asked, "do you know whom you're speaking to? I am the biggest name in show business today. And you want to make a cartoon character out of me?"
This isn't as bad an idea as it sounds, given the success of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and the animation of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" and "The Harlem Globetrotters."
Weiner was told the first person he needed to get approval from was Cosell. Having never met him, Weiner swallowed hard and set up a meeting at Cosell's office. But he had barely begun to pitch the project when he was silenced.
"Young man," he was asked, "do you know whom you're speaking to? I am the biggest name in show business today. And you want to make a cartoon character out of me?"
Continue Reading.....Excerpts From The Long-Lost Script For Monday Night Football: The Cartoon
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