# Frank Gifford was Hot. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 12, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636 "2015-08-12T07:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/1 "2015-08-12T07:15:11Z")
I hadn’t heard anything for a while about Frank Gifford, or his wife Kathy Lee, until just now, when he passed. And I have to say, shortly before he passed, he was hot. Who says older men aren’t hot? Certainly not me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/2 "2015-08-13T18:58:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Frank Gifford was Hot. Yep. 1,400 to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, if cremated. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/3 "2015-08-13T19:03:23Z")
He was a cheater nothing makes a man go faster from hot to not is cheating, except maybe beating. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/4 "2015-08-13T19:16:27Z")
I’m sure plastic surgery is a factor but Kathy Lee Gifford looks damn good for a 61 year old woman. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/5 "2015-08-13T19:21:09Z")
It helps if you start off looking like [this.](http://www.profootballhof.com/assets/Gifford_Frank_HS_180-220.jpg) Howard Cosell referred to him as “The Human Mannequin.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/6 "2015-08-13T20:26:36Z")
When I was in college, I was in a fraternity. When the old-timers would visit for homecoming and events, someone would always tell this story: "It was Rush Week and this skinny kid comes in on crutches with his ankle in a cast. We didn’t think too much of him. **Frank Gifford** stood right there (points toward the door), and _we didn’t pledge him!"_ 😃 He ended up down the street. Some of those guys were really broken up about it. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/7 "2015-08-13T20:39:59Z")
He was my cousin (no joke). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/8 "2015-08-13T20:41:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Howard Cosell referred to him as “The Human Mannequin.” Cosell called Gifford many, many insulting things, and always followed that by adding, “That said, I consider Frank a friend.” Frank knew better. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/9 "2015-08-13T21:50:28Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Cosell called Gifford many, many insulting things, and always followed that by adding, “That said, I consider Frank a friend.” > > Frank knew better. From everything I’ve read (including Al Michael’s book) Cosell was a complicated man. But he was mostly just a horrible person. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/10 "2015-08-13T23:00:38Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > From everything I’ve read (including Al Michael’s book) Cosell was a complicated man. But he was mostly just a horrible person. Cosells 3 books are good reading. He had no love for the sport Establishment and he was visionary. Gifford was a decent man but a jock; Cosell was Jewish and a lawyer. Oil and water. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-gifford-was-hot/727636/11 "2015-08-13T23:03:34Z")
But yeah Cosell was an arrogant bastard.