Image Credit: Steve Fenn/ABC/Getty ImagesDon Meredith, the Dallas Cowboys quarterback who became even more famous as a member of ABC’s Monday Night Football broadcast team, died on Sunday after suffering a brain hemorrhage, according to ESPN. He was 72. Beginning with the show’s premiere in 1970, Meredith was the irreverent good ol’ boy who provoked Howard Cosell, gabbed with fellow jock Frank Gifford, and became known for singing Willie Nelson’s “The Party’s Over” during the fourth quarter, when he concluded the game was no longer in doubt.
Dec 6
2010
12:58 PM ET
Don Meredith of 'Monday Night Football' dies
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its fixed
for me MNF needs to come back to network tv – my dream team for today’s broadcasters would be Al Michaels, Gus Johnson and Terry Bradshaw
oo they fixed it!
RIP Dandy Don!
He will forever the Lipton Tea Guy to me.
There’s no doubt about it.
I guess “the party’s over” for Don!
I’ll think of him during the game tonight. And I’ll be singing his song when the Patriots lose!
Yeah…how’d that work out for ya?
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
R.I.P. Don
/falls back into swimming pool after drinking iced tea.
I remember the “Peanut Butter” incident very well. He had pulled over a jerk who said he was a friend of the Cheif of Police and was immune to trafic citations.
He took out a jar of peanut butter and spread it on the guy’s Drivers License. Then he advised him to call the Cheif and tell him that he had spread peanut butter on his licence and ate it.
Never saw him doing the sports broadcast but I remember him doing a few “Police Story” episodes years ago. there was one where the driver he pulled over was giving him grief so he took the guys’ license, put peanut butter on i and ate it! RIP Don!
Another part of my childhood being in front of the ol’ Magnavox black and white has died with the news of the passing of Dandy Don. My condolences to the Meredith family foremost, as well as to the fans who remember Dandy Don in his days with Dallas or in everyone’s TV sets either calling games or pitching iced tea or appearing in guest shots on various shows.
Dandy Don and Howard Cosell were one of the greatest commentator teams in history, right up there with Dizzy Dean and Peewee Reese (ask your dad if you don’t know who they were!) It never mattered what teams were playing, Dandy Don and Howard WERE the show. RIP, Don, and condolences to your family.
he was the first announcer who didnt take himself or the sport too seriously. today, too many commentator make football out to be some epic war being wage (where you cant even smile on the sidelines). dandy don made us remember, it is just a game, have fun.
Billions of dollars are at stake, careers don’t last that long (NFL = Not For Long), coaches work themselves sick, it is a cut throat business not just a game.
He was a fun announcer and a decent QB, RIP our friend.
They say that all good things must end! Good night MY FRIEND….