Bill Cosby today replied publicly to the multiple allegations of sexual abuse being levied against him by explaining that most, if not all, of the allegations are related to a "Buck-Buck" tournament.

Buck-Buck is a very physical neighborhood game in which one team creates a "horse" and tries to hold as many players from the other team as possible as they leap on to the horse. The game was made famous by Cosby himself on his 1967 comedy album Revenge.

"That's all this was, see?" started Cosby in a rambling, condescending press conference. "This was a round-robin Buck-Buck tournament that started in 1967 when the bit came out on the record and suddenly became a party game. The tournament lasted until the wrap party for the movie Mother, Jugs, & Speed in 1976."

One of Cosby's accusers says that after she fought him off he left two hundred dollars on the night stand.

Cosby admitted that he may have left money.

"We often wagered on individual rounds of Buck-Buck," remembers the star. "If she won the round, I was more than happy to pay. In fact, I think I was down $10,000 to Steve McQueen at one party. That's just how it was back in those days."

When asked about the allegations

Bill Cosby as he appeared on the cover of his 1968 album To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With which prosecutors point to as an example of the lewd and obscene brand of comedy that Cosby has made a career of creating.

that he dropped his pants during at least one of these incidents Dr. Cosby had an answer.

"As you know it was a very physical game, ok? So when a player would jump on the pile after hollering 'Buck-Buck number one coming in!' and VROOOOM-- BOOM! lands on the pile and that's when it would happen. A zipper might get locked with another zipper or hair or a set of braces and the only way to get out would be to undo the zipper on whatever clothes it might be - jacket, shirt, pants, whatever. It was a common occurrence."

Many have voiced suspicious of the idea of a long running Buck-Buck tournament but some who palled around with Cosby in the 60's and 70's remember events like Cosby described.

"We used to make party games out of a lot of Bill's comedy bits," remembers Sidney Poitier who worked with Cosby on such hit movies as Uptown Saturday Night and Let's Do It Again. "There was a standing go-cart race in Hollywood that was modeled after Bill's bit on Wonderfulness. It was dangerous, but it was fun. Everyone had a starlet on his lap and at least three wheels on his go-cart."