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Don Meredith has passed on.
I enjoyed watching him play many SMU home games in the Cotton Bowl when I was in HS.
And he spoke at my HS football banquet when I was a Senior.
The Mustangs used a spread formation as their main offensive set long before I saw other teams doing it.
Don hailed from Mount Vernon, TX.
The story is that if Texas A&M had been co-ed back then, Meredith would have gone to Aggieland to play for Bear Bryant.
He supposedly told the Bear, "Coach, if you were anywhere else...."
Meredith could really play some football and he had a fun personality.
Quotes from Dandy Don:
"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a merry Christmas?"
About Dallas Cowboys' Coach Tom Landry: "He's such a perfectionist that if he were married to Dolly Parton he'd expect her to cook."
Think of the movie QB character that Mac Davis played in "North Dallas Forty."
That flick, based on a book written by former Dallas player Pete Gent, was a satire/expose about Don Meredith and the Cowboys.
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The entire movie is well worth watching, but the opening scene where Nick Nolte, playing an ageing pro WR, limps out of bed after a game is classic.
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RIP Don.
Don Meredith has passed on.
I enjoyed watching him play many SMU home games in the Cotton Bowl when I was in HS.
And he spoke at my HS football banquet when I was a Senior.
The Mustangs used a spread formation as their main offensive set long before I saw other teams doing it.
Don hailed from Mount Vernon, TX.
The story is that if Texas A&M had been co-ed back then, Meredith would have gone to Aggieland to play for Bear Bryant.
He supposedly told the Bear, "Coach, if you were anywhere else...."
Meredith could really play some football and he had a fun personality.
Quotes from Dandy Don:
"If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a merry Christmas?"
About Dallas Cowboys' Coach Tom Landry: "He's such a perfectionist that if he were married to Dolly Parton he'd expect her to cook."
Think of the movie QB character that Mac Davis played in "North Dallas Forty."
That flick, based on a book written by former Dallas player Pete Gent, was a satire/expose about Don Meredith and the Cowboys.
The Link
The entire movie is well worth watching, but the opening scene where Nick Nolte, playing an ageing pro WR, limps out of bed after a game is classic.
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RIP Don.
