RealClearSports: Meredith: Brilliant Star of a Bygone Era

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Art Spander in Cowboys, Don Meredith, Monday Night Football, articles, football

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

There was a certain eeriness to the fact Don Meredith would die hours before a Monday Night Football contest. Also a certain poignancy.

Meredith better than anyone understood the contention of the late commissioner Pete Rozelle that at its essence the NFL is nothing but entertainment.

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