Nice article
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50 years later, Don Meredith still has a song in his heart
November 26, 2009
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Excerpt:
Smiling, he rises from his chair. His hair is gray and his legs are creaky, but there’s no mistaking it.
It’s Don Meredith.
“Hello, hello!” the supposedly reclusive ex-Cowboys quarterback bellows to his invited guest, a reporter no less.
So many questions beg, but Meredith, 71, just wants to be himself. Share witticisms. Croon country tunes. Raise his Snapple to offer a, well, colorful toast.
Football doesn’t enter the banter until Meredith is told of a nearing anniversary. On Nov. 28, 1959, he signed a personal services contract to play for a proposed NFL team that had no nickname, no coach and no other players.
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