30 Years On

It's two days too late for this to be a timely post, but I stumbled on this and wanted to share it with you.





“Remember this is just a football game, no matter who wins or loses. An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City. John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the west side of New York City, the most famous perhaps of all of the Beatles, shot twice in the back and rushed to Roosevelt Hospital. Dead on arrival. Hard to go back to the game after that news flash...”

—Howard Cosell announces the death of John Lennon during Monday Night Football, December 8, 1980.