Don Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who served as a folksy foil for Howard Cosell on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” and helped carve out the niche for colorful ex-athlete broadcasters, has died. “Dandy Don,” as he was known, was 72.

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Cowboys’ Don Meredith dies after brain hemorrhage

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Don Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who served as a folksy foil for Howard Cosell on ABC’s “Monday Night Football” and helped carve out the niche for colorful ex-athlete broadcasters, has died. “Dandy Don,” as he was known, was 72.

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Cowboys’ Don Meredith dies after brain hemorrhage

Tags: carve-out, cosell-on-abc, dallas-cowboys, folksy-foil, howard, howard-cosell, meredith, monday-night, the-former, the-niche