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Don Meredith, QB/MNF Icon, 72, RIP

This Sept. 1980, photo provided by American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. shows ABC Monday Night Football commentators, from left, Don Meredith, Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford. Meredith, one of the most recognizable figures of the early Dallas Cowboys and an original member of ABC's "Monday Night Football" broadcast team, died Sunday in Santa Fe, N.M., He was 72. Story here. (AP Photo/ABC, Steve Fenn)

Question: Will there ever be a broadcast trio as entertaining as Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell, & Don Merdith from "Monday Night Football"?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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