My favorite story about Dandy Don when led the Cowboys to win over the Redskins almost the length of field with no timeouts and a punctured lung.
Meredith had a reputation of being a party guy off the field, and he thought football should be fun on the field, which led to conflict with Tom Landry on more than one occassion.
Inspite of his wild and crazy guy personality, he played through an amazing amount of injuries, including playing with fractured ribs. After the play that knocked him down and fractured his ribs, Meredith couldn’t get up and asked his teammates to lift him up to his feet, telling them he could play if he could just stand up. He completed the game.
In later years Landry would call Meredith the toughest player he ever coached. Teammate Lee Roy Jordan also said he (Jordan) had seen a lot of tough players, and Meredith was the toughest of them all.
Meredith: "I don't know about that Howard, but they sure are throwing the ball around a lot."
When Dan Fouts was being bashed backwards by a defender, he completed an unbelievable pass to Chuck Muncie, who caught it in perfect stride and ran for a first down.
You could sense Meredith’s appreciation of that pass by emphasizing “Just a shade shy of perfect.” Meredith loved to announce games that Fouts played in.
i really miss howard cosell ...