BrAinPaiNt
12-08-2010, 05:00 AM
Randy Galloway
Maybe he wasn’t the best quarterback who ever lived, or the toughest, or the coolest, or the funniest, or the most respected by the teammates who knew him best.
But where I came from in the ’60s, the Indian Hills section of Grand Prairie, this was one skinny white boy who thought Dandy Don was all of the above.
And still do, going on a half-century later.
Granted, I had to have help with that last part — the most respected by his teammates.
Later in life, getting to know a Walt, a Lee Roy, a Bullet Bob, etc., plus a Tex, they filled in that blank with a reverence and love that left me even more in awe.
“You sell winning, and you win with talent,” general manager Tex Schramm told me once, years after Don Meredith was gone from the Dallas Cowboys.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12/07/2684138/dont-turn-out-the-lights-because.html#ixzz17W6mIeDA
Maybe he wasn’t the best quarterback who ever lived, or the toughest, or the coolest, or the funniest, or the most respected by the teammates who knew him best.
But where I came from in the ’60s, the Indian Hills section of Grand Prairie, this was one skinny white boy who thought Dandy Don was all of the above.
And still do, going on a half-century later.
Granted, I had to have help with that last part — the most respected by his teammates.
Later in life, getting to know a Walt, a Lee Roy, a Bullet Bob, etc., plus a Tex, they filled in that blank with a reverence and love that left me even more in awe.
“You sell winning, and you win with talent,” general manager Tex Schramm told me once, years after Don Meredith was gone from the Dallas Cowboys.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/12/07/2684138/dont-turn-out-the-lights-because.html#ixzz17W6mIeDA