Dandy Don Meredith Dies (1 Viewer)

[Godsbrother]

Just heard on the radio. He was 72

Link

 

[Sabertooth]

Bummer. Lived a pretty good life though.

 

[Sudsy]

That's a shame. I enjoyed him both as a Q.B. and as a personality. He may not have been among the greatest Q.B.'s or announcers, but he seemed a jovial man, was, to my memory, mostly gracious with others, and was a part of my school years which, through the passage of time, are now viewed through a soft and fuzzy lense.

If Howard were still around I am sure the eulogy would have been memorable.

 

[Das Boot]

Dang, that's too young.

I'll always remember him from Monday Night Football, he was a shade before my time as a player.

I actually didn't know this about him from the above link:

The team announced plans to relocate to the Texas Stadium site Meredith found so contemptible a few months before his abrupt and shocking retirement from professional football in 1968.

He was 31, in the prime of his career. His decision was announced during a news conference in which Meredith, who had finished second in passing in the NFL, simply explained he had lost the desire to compete.

Roger Staubach was released from the Navy the same day.

"He never reached his full potential because he was only 31 when he quit and that's when the team was becoming the great power," Schramm said. "It would have been very interesting competition between him and Roger Staubach."

 

[Godsbrother]

"Turn off the lights, the party's over..."

RIP, Don.

 

[3C's]

Turn out the lights, the party's over.

RIP Dandy.

 

[Hooper31]

His quote in "Heros of the 60s" from NFL Films Power and the Glory is one was one of my all time favorites. RIP Dandy Don.

Now I want you to listen to me, and listen to me good. We're gonna run the ball. We're gonna pass the ball. We're going right down this field, and we're gonna score.

 

[Sudsy]

It would have been fitting if he passed away right before the Monday Night Telecast so that the news could have been broken there.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

One of the legends

 

[road warrior]

RIP Dandy Don. You were certainly one of a kind.

 

[Rovers]

While people in bars were throwing bricks at the TV on Monday nights at Howard Cosell, it was Meredith that made my stomache turn back in those days. He was a clown in the booth, and I absolutely hated when he would start singing. I really hated his schtick. I did enjoy watching him play football. He was a very good QB.

I wonder how much NFL fans today would like it if the booth announcers started singing? With a pretty bad boice BTW. I'm sure he was a great guy, but he annoyed the heck out of me on Monday nights. In any case... RIP.

 

[Bracie Smathers]

Oh darn.

For the younguns.

Following his football career, Meredith became a color commentator for ABC's Monday Night Football beginning in 1970. He left for three seasons (1974 to 1976) to work with Curt Gowdy at NBC, then returned to MNF partners Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell. His approach to color commentary was light-hearted and folksy, in contrast to Cosell's detailed and intellectual analysis and Gifford's rather ponderous play-by-play technique. He was known for singing "Turn out the lights, the party's over" at the time the game was apparently decided.

Don Meredith Turn Out The Lights

 

[Andrew Garda]

Turn out the lights, the party's over.

RIP Dandy.

 

[road warrior]

While people in bars were throwing bricks at the TV on Monday nights at Howard Cosell, it was Meredith that made my stomache turn back in those days. He was a clown in the booth, and I absolutely hated when he would start singing. I really hated his schtick. I did enjoy watching him play football. He was a very good QB. I wonder how much NFL fans today would like it if the booth announcers started singing? With a pretty bad boice BTW. I'm sure he was a great guy, but he annoyed the heck out of me on Monday nights. In any case... RIP.

Meh, you're probably just bitter cuz he sang it for the Jets more than any other team.

 

[montanagold]

He had some nice tape. Narrowly missed out and maybe should have won against Green Bay in back to back Championships.

God Speed.. RIP

 

[Go DC Yourself]

I did not realize that he was only 31 when he hung them up. The anti-Favre?

 

[road warrior]

I did not realize that he was only 31 when he hung them up. The anti-Favre?

That's one way to put it. After losing two hearbreaking Championship games to the Packers (one being the Ice Bowl), then getting waxed by the Browns the following year, he was badly treated by the fans and media. And being the fun-loving person he was... said screw this, don't need it. Had a rocky relationship with the organization since.

 

[radballs]

I was shocked when I heard he was only 72. For as long as he's been out of the broadcasting game, I thought he was easily in his 80s. That said, he obviously then looked much older than he really was when he stepped down. Loved the memories even though his singing was annoying. Great team booth though.

RIP Don.

 

[Rovers]

While people in bars were throwing bricks at the TV on Monday nights at Howard Cosell, it was Meredith that made my stomache turn back in those days. He was a clown in the booth, and I absolutely hated when he would start singing. I really hated his schtick. I did enjoy watching him play football. He was a very good QB. I wonder how much NFL fans today would like it if the booth announcers started singing? With a pretty bad boice BTW. I'm sure he was a great guy, but he annoyed the heck out of me on Monday nights. In any case... RIP.

Meh, you're probably just bitter cuz he sang it for the Jets more than any other team.

Yeah that was it. Very astute insight. Maybe we can get Aikman to start singing in the booth too. Or Jerry Jones, even better.

 

[Mark Wimer]

“Welcome to the Mile High City, ... and I really am.”

Best introduction to a MNF game, ever.

RIP Dandy Don Meredith, we'll miss you.