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Howard Cosell

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There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.
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October 12, 1977, reporting a school fire (initially mistaken as a tenament fire), while announcing Game 2 of the 1977 World Series. This comment, while widely attributed to Cosell, was never made.

 
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