Saturday, December 11, 2010

Dandy Don Meredith Biography

Dandy Don Meredith Biography ; Joseph Don “Dandy Don” Meredith was an American football quarterback, sports commentator and actor. He played nine full seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.Meredith played college football at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he started at quarterback for three years, leading the Southwest Conference in passing completion percentage each year and getting selected as an All-American in 1958 and 1959.

The Chicago Bears chose Dandy Don Meredith in the third round of the 1960 NFL Draft, and traded him to a young Cowboys franchise for future draft picks. (Incidentally, the Cowboys’ crosstown rivals in the AFL, the Texans, also picked Meredith as a “territorial selection” in their 1960 draft, though Meredith declined to play for them.) Meredith spent two years as a backup to Eddie LeBaron, eventually splitting time in 1962 before he was given the full-time starting job by head coach Tom Landry in 1963.

In 1966, Dandy Don Meredith led the Cowboys to the NFL postseason, something he would continue to do until his unexpected retirement before the 1969 season. His two most heartbreaking defeats came in NFL Championship play against the Green Bay Packers, 34–27 in Dallas (1966), and in the famous “Ice Bowl” game, 21–17 in Green Bay (1967).
Meredith was selected as the 2007 recipient of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. He received the award at the Enshrinee’s Dinner on August 3, 2007.

He resided in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Palm Springs, California, with his third wife, the former Susan Lessons Dullea, the former wife of actor Keir Dullea. Meredith died of brain hemorrhage on December 5, 2010, at the age of 72.

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