don meredith

[markabilly]

a fun guy
whose crazy humor would sometime get him in trouble like the time he referred to a football flying in the air like a "wounded taco" that had been kicked by a hispanic

[glauistean]

a fun guy
whose crazy humor would sometime get him in trouble like the time he referred to a football flying in the air like a "wounded taco" that had been kicked by a hispanic

A post started by a troll waiting for others to fall for his tricks by brining up the hispanic card.

[markabilly]

other statements on the monday night football game, such as "welcome to mile high stadium ............and I really am" (and sounded like it for much of the game)

Or when Nixon was at a redskin game, before he had a little waterunderhisgate, and he referred to him as "tricky dick" which really got everyone using that nickname

"there is internal genocide going on" (probably when he was too high to say turmoil about some coaching-player arguments during a game)



well turn out the lights, the party's over

[Tazio]

Don Meredith was a great quarterback! An All American at SMU and a three time Pro Bowler for Dallas. I remember the Two NFL Championship losses to Lombardi's Green bay Packers, in '66, and '67 they were excruciating for me.
As the Original color commentator for Monday Night Football he was a riot. I loved the way he teased Howard Cosell.
BTW it was Cosell that caught heat for what was considered a racial slur for referring Alvin Garrett of the Redskins as "that little monkey"
As Meredith like to metaphorically express a game was all but over he would break into a really raunchy version Willie Nelson's "Turn out the Lights the Party's over"

Don Meredith was a genuine original world shaker!
RIP

[Roamy]

A post started by a troll waiting for others to fall for his tricks by brining up the hispanic card.

who cares what card you play - cards are for playing - are you trying to put your spin on every word that possibly could relate to a race??

[Tazio]

a fun guy
whose crazy humor would sometime get him in trouble like the time he referred to a football flying in the air like a "wounded taco" that had been kicked by a hispanic

BTW Thanks for starting this thread I wanted to but was waiting for someone who is actually from the great state of Texas to come through.

A post started by a troll waiting for others to fall for his tricks by brining up the hispanic card.

WTF?? Get a grip dude!

[AAReagles]

... well turn out the lights, the party's over

Thanks for remembering him.

Btw... don't forget those 'Nes-tea' plunge commercials!

[Tazio]

Since we have an NFL topic thread it's a good excuse for me to share a vid my brother sent me earlier this week.
I'm a San Diegan our Chargers have a rivalry with the Oakland Raiders. Going into this season we had beaten them 12 or 13 consecutive times.
This season did they not only beat us twice, they bullied the snot out of us.
The second game was last Sunday. My brother lives in Alameda, and teaches school in South Berkeley.
I guess this vid was making the rounds up there
I received this YouTube from him in an email entitled "Boo Hoo"

[youtube]9bLyjcXQmF0&feature=fvw[/youtube]

[markabilly]

A FEW FOOTBALL STORIES ABOUT DON:

The first green bay game, Packers were up 14-0 and dallas was in big trouble. Green bay scorred on its first possession with bone crunching plays down the field. On the ensuing kick off, dallas fumbles and Green bay runs the ball right up the throat and scores again.

First huddle for dallas, and instead of calling the play, Meredith just stands there, finally someone says, "well?"

Meredith says, with a so-what kind of attitude, "well, we are in a heap of f***ing ****"

the whole huddle cracks up laughing, almost a delay of game. Coach landry is furious at the dealy and laughter.

Meredith then proceeded to take the team down for two touchdowns to make the game 14-14 at end of the first quarter.

Late in the fourth quarter, 28 seconds, on 4th down, score 34-27 in favor of green bay, on the 2 yard line, Don would throw an interception the end zone, when therre was a personnel screw up as to who was to be in the game and meredith was about to be sacked. Close, very close to being in the first super bowl.

In the second champ game of 1967, the "Ice Bowl", GB would win with 16 seconds to go on a quarterback sneak. But what all have forgotten is in the last two seconds, Don would take the hand-off look for Bob Hayes down the sideline, then turn and throw the ball to lance rentzel. At the moment, he threw the ball, lance stopped running hard, because the play was called to Hayes and he was looking towards hayes. Much to his surprize, he saw the ball coming to him instead, but he could not get there to it, and it was "overthrown".

Had he not slowed to look around, he should have been there to catch it.....he would have scored, as the reason why Don threw it to him and not to Hayes, was that the sole GB defender had fallen on the ice, was still laying there some 25 yards away, face down, and everyone else had gone to hayes' side of the field, leaving lance to have an easy run to immortal football fame.......

Now, no one knows who was lance rentzel.....


Loved the video

[Tazio]

Now, no one knows who was lance rentzel.....


Loved the video

Not everyone Billy bob!
If my mind serves me correctly he was married to Joey Heatherton



http://www.squidoo.com/joeyheatherton

On a related note;
Since it was before the merger at that time I had my favorite AFL Team, and my favorite NFL team .
AFL San Diego for obvious reasons, and Dallas in the NFL.
Lance Alworth IM-Informed-O was one of the greatest wide receivers to play that position in the history of the league, and I was quite pleased that at the end of his career he had the opportunity to catch a touchdown pass in a Super bowl win. I suspect you may remember which team and which Super bowl that he caught that pass in and for