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  1. According to the New York Post, the words used by the two broadcasters during the game were later "spun by credulous journalists" into the now ubiquitous phrase "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning" without either of the two announcers actually having phrased it that way.

    • Jonathan Mahler
    • 2005
  2. As flames engulfed the building, not a firetruck in sight, legend has it that Howard Cosell uttered one of his most memorable phrases: “There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.”

  3. Howard Cosell Never Actually Said ‘The Bronx Is Burning’. So notes this piece from the weekend Post, which argues that fire-station closings based on flawed statistical models...

  4. Jul 18, 2010 · Howard Cosell Never Actually Said 'The Bronx Is Burning'. Howard Cosell Never Actually Said 'The Bronx Is Burning'. By. NYMag. Jul 18, 2010, 05:12 AM EDT | Updated May 25, 2011. A myth, busted. Read more on NYMag.com.

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  5. Dec 31, 2014 · Howard Cosell's comments on October 12, 1977 during Game 2 of the 1977 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees from Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, New York. As the broadcast cuts to an overhead shot of Yankee Stadium, the camera focuses on a fire that has engulfed a nearby building.

  6. Oct 4, 2009 · I recall the sting of Howard Cosell, the sportscaster, who called after I took exception in print to his cadenced “the-Bronx-is-burning” performance sociology shtick ad-libbed when the TV ...

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  8. 77K views 8 years ago. Howard Cosell and Keith Jackson comment on a building fire seen nearby Yankee Stadium during Game 2 of the World Series, October 12, 1977. ...more. Howard Cosell and Keith...

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