The funniest moment in sports to me was during a 1960s ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS interview with Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay and sportscaster Howard Cosell.

Cosell was bantering back and forth with Ali and was forced to defend himself from Ali's long arms, which were trying to pull Cosell's toupee off.

This was funny.

But it was a touching moment of how both blacks and whites should get along as brothers at a time when an Obamian presidency would have been unthinkable.

And the love grew between those two through the '60s, '70s and '80s. Cosell cried while telling Ali happy 50th birthday. Across generations they became improbable friends, partners and Americans became aware, in my opinion, that it was ok to love another human being even if he was different.

Maybe just maybe Cosell was right when he said that "Sports is human life in microcosm". 

All I know is that of all the memories of what amused me and struck me lastingly throughout all these years, the one that sticks to my mind the most, is this one.

See the link to this funny exchange between the two via: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsK8QU-EAWo