This guy made Monday Night Football and in my view was one of the best reasons there was to watch the NFL Monday night games... now he's gone... God bless and rest him, God console and comfort his loved ones:
Don Meredith, one of the most recognizable figures of the early Dallas Cowboys and an original member of ABC's "Monday Night Football" broadcast team, died Sunday. He was 72.Meredith's wife, Susan, told The Associated Press on Monday her husband died in Santa Fe after suffering a brain hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma. She says a private graveside ceremony is being planned and that family members were traveling to Santa Fe.
"He was the best there was," she said, describing him as kind, warm and funny. "We lost a good one."
We did indeed. He will be missed. He was missed. He is missed.
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Class act, all the way.... (Below threshold)1. Posted by GarandFan | December 6, 2010 12:29 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Class act, all the way.
1. Posted by GarandFan | December 6, 2010 12:29 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 12:29
2. Posted by kevino | December 6, 2010 12:41 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Turn out the lights, the party's over ...
2. Posted by kevino | December 6, 2010 12:41 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 12:41
3. Posted by Tsar Nicholas II | December 6, 2010 12:50 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Sadly, the public of today has been so numbed down into abject stupidity that a live TV combination of Meredith, Cosell and Gifford would not even be green-lighted, much less successful. That said, Meredith was a true American icon. RIP.
3. Posted by Tsar Nicholas II | December 6, 2010 12:50 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 12:50
4. Posted by CZ | December 6, 2010 12:57 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Don was part of an era when sports had class. And humor. And entertainment. And respect for each other.
Today's sports relies way too much on drugs, ghetto thuggery and trash talk.
Guess that's what sells to today's 24/7 connected time-poor young moderns.
Being older and wiser has it's advantages.
Rest well, Dandy Don.
4. Posted by CZ | December 6, 2010 12:57 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 12:57
5. Posted by MichaelC | December 6, 2010 2:04 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Rest in Peace Mr. Meredeth and may the Lord comfort his family during their time of sorrow.
I suppose it is too much to hope that Don might have tarried through the last quarter of the Dallas-Indianapolis game to see his Cowboys win a big one once again.
5. Posted by MichaelC | December 6, 2010 2:04 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 14:04
6. Posted by Michael Laprarie | December 6, 2010 2:46 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Meredith was one of the early Texan Dallas Cowboys (along with Walt Garrison and Bob Lilly) that I idolized as a kid. RIP Dandy Don. Man, I feel old now.
6. Posted by Michael Laprarie | December 6, 2010 2:46 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 14:46
7. Posted by Gmac | December 6, 2010 3:20 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Well darn ... RIP Mr. Meredith.
Another icon rides off into the sunset.
7. Posted by Gmac | December 6, 2010 3:20 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2010 15:20