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VIDEO: Pat Sullivan responds to Howard Cosell’s Heisman Trophy contempt in ABC’s intro to 1972 Sugar Bowl

Terry Beasley could catch anything. After winning the Heisman, Pat Sullivan couldn’t catch a break.

First ABC gives Ed Marinaro, winner of the first ever Second Place Heisman Trophy, a little segment on ABC that has him strolling across Cornell’s campus, comely coed on his arm, telling the world that he should have won the First Place Heisman Trophy. Then Howard Cosell of all people gets quoted telling some group at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga that Johnny Musso should have won the trophy… after calling the whole Heisman race “a bore and a fraud.