NYT: Channeling Howard Cosell, Speaking of Don Meredith

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By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Published: December 8, 2010

Hello again, everyone, this is Howard Cosell, speaking of “Monday Night Football,” and the death of Don Meredith, the singing Cowboy who shall eternally be the Dandy One.

I have appeared before you in this space several times live from the heavenly ABC Sports booth that is growing as full as the Octomom’s kitchen. The diminutive one, Jim McKay, is here; so are Chris Schenkel, Bud Wilkinson, Bill Flemming, Jim Valvano, Paul Christman, Dave Marr and Curt Gowdy — who never summoned me to a duck blind on “American Sportsman,” so I never asked him to sing with the Bay City Rollers on my lamented variety show, “Saturday Night Live.”

I never worked with those men as I did with the Danderoo. I, who preferred to work alone — as an interrogator of catholic intelligence or the seminal voice of boxing, which I bravely if belatedly renounced for its brutality — found in Dandy a partner puckish, occasionally perspicacious and sometimes unprepared.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/sport ... ref=sports