Don Meredith: The Original Dallas Cowboy Could Play

December 8, 2010   ·   Gene Strother   ·   Jump to comments

"Outlined against a gray November sky, The Four Horsemen rode again Sunday in the Cotton Bowl. You remember their names: Death, Famine, Pestilence and Meredith."
That opening line—penned by Gary Cartwright of The Dallas Times Herald some time in the 1960s after the Dallas Cowboys and their irrepressible quarterback Don Meredith had failed to acquit themselves well on the football field—may be the greatest ever penned by a Dallas sports writer.
It is also representative of how patently unfair media and fans alike were to the quarterback who led the team from expansion woes to the threshold of greatness.
Most people my age remember Don Meredith primarily as the funny man in the booth, the one who gave Howard Cosell hell. We loved him for it. More seasoned Cowboys fans like my father-in-law, Tommy Weir, remember Meredith as one of the franchise's first great offensive players.
They remember the way he and "Bullet" Bob Hayes stretched defenses. They remember...

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