“Dandy Don” Meredith

Don Meredith was a quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys from 1960-1968. He was quite successful and much loved. In one game the Cowboys were 4 or 5 points behind and it was near the end of the game. He was facing a 1st down and 45 yards to go. Incredibly, he threw three consecutive 15 yard passes, made the first down, the touchdown, and they won the game. Afterward a reporter talked to him about that sequence and then asked “Don did you know at that point that it was 1st and 45?” With what I thought was admirable restraint Meredith replied, “I try to stay as close to the game as I can.”