Don Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and one of the original announcers on Monday Night Football, died over the weekend. He was 72.
His wife, Susan, told the Associated Press that Meredith died after he had a brain hemorrhage and fell into a coma.
"He was the best there was," she told AP. "We lost a good one."
Meredith passed away at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center on Sunday evening, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“Dandy Don,” as he was nicknamed, played for the Cowboys from 1960 to 1968 and became an early star in the then-budding franchise, even though they never made it to the Super Bowl.
He hailed from Mount Vernon, Tex., and played college football at Southern Methodist University within the greater metropolitan area of Dallas before playing for the Cowboys.
"I'm very thankful about where I'm from and who I am,” Meredith was quoted by the Morning News as saying last October.
During his nine-year-long career, he threw for 17,199 yards and 111 touchdowns.
He retired early at age 31, but then helped launch Monday Night Football in 1970 alongside Howard Cosell.
