{"id":4475,"date":"2010-12-06T21:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2010-12-09T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T04:51:48","slug":"former-all-pro-quarterback-of-the-dallas-cowboys-don-dandy-don-meredith-has-passed-away-at-the-age-of-72-and-leaves-a-great-many-stories-of-the-dallas-cowboys-that-will-be-told-for-years-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=4475","title":{"rendered":"MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BROADCAST ICON <\/strong><strong>AND ALSO, FORMER ALL PRO QUARTERBACK <\/strong><strong>OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS, DON (DANDY DON) MEREDITH, HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 72, AND LEAVES A GREAT MANY STORIES OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS THAT WILL BE TOLD FOR YEARS TO COME.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DON MEREDITH SIGNED WITH THE DALLAS COWBOYS, PRIOR TO THE TEAM ATUALLY PLAYING A GAME, AND OR ACTUALLY BEING THE FRANCHISE THAT IT WAS TO BE. HE WAS A STAR QUARTERBACK AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, AND WAS ACTUALLY DRAFTED BY ANOTHER FOOTBALL FRANCHISE, BUT STATED THAT HE WASN&#8217;T GOING TO PLAY THERE, AND WANTED TO STAY IN TEXAS, AND WITH THAT SAID, HE WAS SIGNED AS THE DALLAS COWBOYS FUTURE QUARTERBACK, WHO WOULD ULTIMATELY REPLACE EDDIE LEBARON, AND BECOME THE STARTING QUARTERBACK FOR THE FUTURE AMERICA&#8217;S TEAM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HE WOULD PLAY 9 SEASONS IN THE NFL, AND REACHED GREAT HEIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS WHILE LEADING THE COWBOYS AT QUARTERBACK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 3 TIME PRO BOWL QUARTERBACK SELECTION, 1965, 1967, AND \u00a01969.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a02 TIME SECOND TEAM ALL PRO QUARTERBACK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. 1966 BERT BELL AWARD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. ALSO VOTED, THE NFL PLAYER OF THE YEAR, 1966.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0 HE ALSO TOOK THE COWBOYS TO 2 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES, LOSING BOTH TO THE GREEN BAY PACKERS, INCLUDIING THE MOST FAMOUS GAME PLAYED IN GREEN BAY, THE ICE BOWL.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DON MEREDITH IS KNOWN EVEN BETTER FOR BEING ONE OF THE 3\u00a0 GENTLEMEN WHO MADE THE MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL THE MOST POPULAR BROADCAST SPORTS SHOW OF IT&#8217;S ERA. IT WAS THE MOST WATCHED FOOTBALL BROADCAST THAT HAS EVER ORIGINATED ON A MONDAY NIGHT SPORTS VENUE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MYBOYSAY WOULD LIKE TO SEND IT&#8217;S BEST WISHES TO MR. DON MEREDITH&#8217;S SURVIVING FAMILY, AND WE WISH THEM WELL.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROADCAST ICON AND ALSO, FORMER ALL PRO QUARTERBACK OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS, DON (DANDY DON) MEREDITH, HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 72, AND LEAVES A GREAT MANY STORIES OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS THAT WILL BE TOLD FOR YEARS TO COME. DON MEREDITH SIGNED WITH THE DALLAS COWBOYS, PRIOR TO THE TEAM ATUALLY PLAYING [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,13,14,1,39,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-health","category-most-commented","category-news","category-nfl","category-sports","category-us","category-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}