RIP "Dandy Don"

All of us long time football fans remember Don Meredith broadcasting on Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell, and Frank Gifford.
When the outcome of the game was surely decided he'd break and song, and sing "Turn out the lights...."

Meredith was given the full-time starting job of the Dallas Cowboys by head coach Tom Landry in 1963. In 1966, 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's broadcasting career was also not without a few incidents of minor controversy; including referring to then-President Richard Nixon as "Tricky Dick", announcing that he was "mile-high" before a game in Denver, and turning the name of a Cleveland Browns player (Fair Hooker) into a double entendre. (saying 'Fair Hooker...well, I haven't met one yet!')

On playing for Tom Landry: "He's such a perfectionist that if he were married to Dolly Parton he'd expect her to cook."