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Meredith finally meets ... Meredith
UPDATE: 10:24 PM, Sunday, August 5, 2007
BY Shane Hoover
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER
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CANTON Meredith Dawn Wooley got her wish Saturday: A picture with her namesake, former Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith, and his signature on a football.
With those two items, Wooley completed the collection her mother and father started when they named their three girls after memorable Cowboys.
Meredith, 11, is the youngest. Her sisters Landry and Lilly are named after the late Cowboys Coach Tom Landry and defensive tackle Bob Lilly — both Hall of Famers. The older girls both had signed footballs and pictures taken with their namesakes.
But Meredith had never met Meredith, who is not in the Hall but was in town this weekend to receive the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.
At Memorial Civic Center on Friday, she got within 5 feet of Dandy Don, but couldn’t get his attention.
“Friday night she was crushed,” said her mother, Jill Wooley. “She was in tears.”
But Meredith Wooley and her mom didn’t give up. On Saturday, they drove from Norton and waited outside the McKinley Grand Hotel, holding signs, one that pleaded, “Please, Mr. Meredith.”
Security staff told the old quarterback about the Wooleys and showed him a story on the family’s quest from that day’s copy of The Repository, Jill Wooley said.
Meredith finally met Meredith.
“He gave her a big hug and signed a football for her,” Jill Wooley said. Other fans had gathered outside the hotel, but it was the only autograph Meredith gave.
“ ‘I guess I’m writing this from Meredith for Meredith,’ ” Meredith Wooley recalled him saying.
“I just started shaking and everything when he came over. I was just so excited.”
FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION A DAY LATER
Thomas Comshaw - 7:48 AM on August 6, 2007
What a nice story.
C Harvey - 8:22 AM on August 6, 2007
Very cool
Leslie Young - 11:46 PM on August 5, 2007
Geez lady, get a life.
Philip Mazi - 8:18 AM on August 6, 2007
Gosh, what a legacy these parents gave their children. Named after a bunch of football players from Dallas. I believe someone has the idea of the word hero skewed. Shaking all over from meeting a former football player?? It seems the ideosyncracies of the parents has flowed down to the offspring.
jim mapes - 10:49 AM on August 6, 2007
If it wasn't for Bob Hayes, you would remember Meredith like you remember Rudy Bukich.
UPDATE: 10:24 PM, Sunday, August 5, 2007
BY Shane Hoover
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER
LINK
CANTON Meredith Dawn Wooley got her wish Saturday: A picture with her namesake, former Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith, and his signature on a football.
With those two items, Wooley completed the collection her mother and father started when they named their three girls after memorable Cowboys.
Meredith, 11, is the youngest. Her sisters Landry and Lilly are named after the late Cowboys Coach Tom Landry and defensive tackle Bob Lilly — both Hall of Famers. The older girls both had signed footballs and pictures taken with their namesakes.
But Meredith had never met Meredith, who is not in the Hall but was in town this weekend to receive the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.
At Memorial Civic Center on Friday, she got within 5 feet of Dandy Don, but couldn’t get his attention.
“Friday night she was crushed,” said her mother, Jill Wooley. “She was in tears.”
But Meredith Wooley and her mom didn’t give up. On Saturday, they drove from Norton and waited outside the McKinley Grand Hotel, holding signs, one that pleaded, “Please, Mr. Meredith.”
Security staff told the old quarterback about the Wooleys and showed him a story on the family’s quest from that day’s copy of The Repository, Jill Wooley said.
Meredith finally met Meredith.
“He gave her a big hug and signed a football for her,” Jill Wooley said. Other fans had gathered outside the hotel, but it was the only autograph Meredith gave.
“ ‘I guess I’m writing this from Meredith for Meredith,’ ” Meredith Wooley recalled him saying.
“I just started shaking and everything when he came over. I was just so excited.”
FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION A DAY LATER
Thomas Comshaw - 7:48 AM on August 6, 2007
What a nice story.
C Harvey - 8:22 AM on August 6, 2007
Very cool
Leslie Young - 11:46 PM on August 5, 2007
Geez lady, get a life.
Philip Mazi - 8:18 AM on August 6, 2007
Gosh, what a legacy these parents gave their children. Named after a bunch of football players from Dallas. I believe someone has the idea of the word hero skewed. Shaking all over from meeting a former football player?? It seems the ideosyncracies of the parents has flowed down to the offspring.
jim mapes - 10:49 AM on August 6, 2007
If it wasn't for Bob Hayes, you would remember Meredith like you remember Rudy Bukich.
