Miorry Nobitto

...A true original, funny as hell, one tough sumbitch and a better QB than most people remember.  Don Meredith is one of the main reasons tonight's game between the Pats and Jets is as big an event as it is.  Along with Frank Gifford (originally Keith Jackson) and Howard Cosell, Dandy Don made Monday Night Football appointment viewing for a young kid growing up in Massachusetts and millions of others across America.  They (along with ABC execs like Roone Arledge & Don Ohlmeyer, director Chet Forte and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle) are as responsible as anyone for why the NFL is the juggernaut it is today.  Dandy Don, truly one of the cornerstones on which the church of the NFL was built. "Turn out the lights, the party's over..."