************* ..... RIP Dandy Don ..... *************

Frank Gifford actually lost his composure at the end of his interview on MNF.
 
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We just did it. Thanks CL. There are two to choose from.
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I like the one in the blue jersey even better than the other one that was available before. I think he's scrambling to his right and is about to unleash a bomb to Bullet Bob. :)
 
Great Post. I became a Cowboy fan in 1976. I remembered him on MNF but knew nothing of his Cowboy History until later.

RIP Dandy Don!!!

Cowboys Forever!!
 
Classy indeed. I'm 41 and vividly remember Dandy Don singing and entertaining me every Monday night during the football season. MY parents would let me stay up late and he cracked them up too. We would hope for a blowout, just to hear him bust into "Turn out the lights, the party's over". What a player, what a guy and.........what a loss. RIP Don, we love 'ya.
 
Yep Frank was ready to tear up big time there. They had many a fun night together on the road and many happy memories. Frank looked pretty pissed when he mentioned Cosell's name, not surprised.

RIP Dandy Don...you were one in a million!
 
Thanks for everything Dandy Don! I never saw him play myself but I sure remember him on MNF. That's one reason I absolutely loved MNF. He will surely be missed. God be with the Meredith family.
 
Didn't see this posted elsewhere.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/columns/story?columnist=reeves_jim&id=5891895

As Walt Garrison told the story on Dale Hansen's Sports Special on WFAA on Sunday night, the Cowboys' charter flight after a game sometime back in the late '60s had just dropped 300 feet in a violent storm, like an elevator in free fall, and big, tough NFL football players were screaming and crying left and right.

Someone looked over at quarterback Don Meredith, who sat calmly reading a magazine, a cigarette in one hand and a scotch in the other.

"Aren't you scared?" asked the player (some say it was linebacker D.D. Lewis).

Replied Meredith, sipping his scotch, "It's been a good 'un, ain't it?"
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Meredith, or "Jeff and Hazel's baby boy," as he liked to call himself, was a free spirit even coming out of Mount Vernon High School in East Texas. Bear Bryant tried to recruit him to Texas A&M, still an all-male school in those days.

"Coach Bryant," Meredith reportedly told the legendary coach, "there's not a coach in the world I'd rather play for. I'd go anywhere in the world to play for you, except, of course, at some school where girls aren't allowed."
 
Don was one of those players that provide personality to a team. He was one of those players that is synonymous with the Cowboys name. I saw Gifford's interview and really got a sense of the affection that Gifford had for Meredith. He was larger than life. So long, Dandy Don.:star:
 
I sure do like the new graphics at the top of the page... very fitting...
 
Unlike all the young bucks on this site, I was fortunate enough to see Don Meridith play in that '66 Championship game. I did not know of his death until I tuned into the MNF game, and was shocked indeed. But it happens to all of us sooner or later. I love to know the real story about his "retirement"; there have been so many versions it's hard to know the truth. But he and his family will be in my prayers. He's at play on the field of the Lord...
 
I was too young to see him play, but I respect all Cowboys legends. I hope someone brings a wreath to hang by his name on Sunday.

R.I.P. to a Cowboys all time great. Say hi to coach Landry for us.
 
Townsend: The old QB Don Meredith was an unforgettable catch
12:48 AM CST on Tuesday, December 7, 2010

By BRAD TOWNSEND / The Dallas Morning News
btownsend@***BANNED-URL*** / The Dallas Morning News
A little more than a year later, the moment remains vivid. How could it not be?

I'm a Texan. I'm a reporter. And on Oct. 29, 2009, I lucked out. If there is such a thing as a sportswriter's Holy Grail, I experienced it.

I walked into Don and Susan Meredith's Santa Fe, N.M., home and saw and heard The Man himself stand and holler from two rooms away.

"Hello, hello," Don Meredith said. "Look who's here!"

Hearing late Sunday night about Meredith's then-unconfirmed death hit hard. Reporters are supposed to be, above all, accurate, fair and objective, but we're also people.

Don and Susan Meredith had graciously allowed me to spend an afternoon in their home, a privilege few other reporters experienced during the last quarter-century.

The first thing I remember thinking, and remarking to Meredith, was how much he still looked like the Don Meredith I remembered as a kid in the late-'60s and the Meredith I watched on Monday Night Football until he left the booth in 1984.

"Yeah, I'm still here," Meredith joked. "I did dye my hair, though. Gray."

Meredith was in entertainment mode, and who was I to complain? Susan brought each a Snapple. Don offered a bawdy toast that began, "I'll drink to the girl who will. And I'll drink to the girl who won't. But I don't drink to the girl who says she will and later decides she won't ..."

Read more:http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedc.../stories/120710dnspotownsendcol.371df1f.html?
 
I never new the player, but loved the commentaries.

My lasting memory of him was a MNF game ~ Commanders at the Packers. It was a Theisman Dickie scoring fest. After a while Dandy Don came up with the line "first one to fifty wins". Really made me chuckle. I can't remember the score, but I think the winner came close. He made the game real fun for me. RIP Dandy Don.
 
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