"Dandy Don" Meredith Dies at 72

[Jagger69]

I can't believe no one has put this up yet. Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and Monday Night Football broadcasting legend "Dandy Don" Meredith passed away yesterday from a brain hemorrhage. I can still see him in the Ice Bowl against Lombardi's Packers in 1967 (13 degrees below zero!) for the NFL Championship (they lost). He was even more visible as an original icon of Monday Night Football opposite Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell. They were without a doubt the greatest trio that ever occupied the booth.

RIP Don...."Turn out the lights....the party's over!!!". You'll be missed. :clap: 72 is WAY too young to die.

Details here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...h-Cowboys-hero-and-MNF-legend-?urn=nfl-292332

 

[dbradford8589]

That sucks, I loved him on Monday Night Football. RIP.

 

[YumiYumi_1988]

72 is young to die? I doubt I'll reach that age.....

I never watched him nor heard him, but it seems that everyone who has has been touched by him. RIP.

 

[itcouldbeme]

He took his football serious...



RIP Don...:hatsoff:

 

[kevinsloane81]

:[ really sad, really really sad

 

[maildude]

TRUE DANDY DON STORY:

Back in the late Seventies, Monday Night Football was broadcasting a game between Dallas and some other team. Dallas was blowing them out. The game got so boring, that the cameraman starting filming the crowd and such, until he moved the camera over to the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Right about then, Don Meredith suddenly said, "Mmm...hmmm...Heaven's just a sin away!"

RIP Dandy Don Meredith

 

[biomech]

What a shame. RIP.

 

[Jagger69]

TRUE DANDY DON STORY:

Back in the late Seventies, Monday Night Football was broadcasting a game between Dallas and some other team. Dallas was blowing them out. The game got so boring, that the cameraman starting filming the crowd and such, until he moved the camera over to the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Right about then, Don Meredith suddenly said, "Mmm...hmmm...Heaven's just a sin away!"

LOL....those are the lines to a country song from the 80s. Dandy always loved country music.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

America's team my hairy balls.


Still, it's sad to lose someone who helped me form my television viewing habits at an early age.