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NEW YORK — Pledging to bring
to the broadcasts “my personality,
my good humor and my good
looks,” Joe Namath will replace Don
Meredith on the announcing team
for Monday Night Football, Roone
Arledge, president of ABC News
and Sports, announced Tuesday.
Frank Gifford, who has been with
the series since its second year, and
OJ. Simpson, who moved into the
booth last season, will complete the
broadcast crew, Arledge said.
“Don Meredith decided he did
not want to continue,” Arledge said.
“We’ll miss him. We’ve been trying
to get Joe involved for a long time.”
Namath, the former New York
Jets quarterback who led them to the
Super Bowl championship in 1969,
signed a five-year contract of undis
closed terms.
Arledge said the network antic
ipates continuing its relationship
with the NFL and that Namath, who
has worked as an actor since his re
tirement, might do some movie work
for the network as well.
“I, of course, am very excited,”
Namath said. “I’ve been out of foot
ball since 1977. I’ve been a good fan
of football and missed not being
closer to it.”
Namath said he had watched
Monday Night Football as often as
he could and that the key to being a
successful announcer would be pre
paration.
“I’ll certainly be prepared,” he
said. “As a quarterback, I found out
early how important that is, prepar
ing, doing your homework.”
Namath said his wife, Debra, had
encouraged him to seek a broadcast
job. “She’d listen to what I have to
say about games we watched and she
enjoyed it,” he said. “It was her
idea.”
The Monday Night ratings, like
those for other football broadcasts,
dipped last year.
“We were down six percent, which
is less than the packages of the other
networks,” Arledge said. “We had a
29 share of the audience and that’s
pretty good.”
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DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys
Coach Tom Landry said he feels
comfortable with choosing Danny
White as his starting quarterback
and picking Dallas to finish fourth in
the NFC East.
“He’s our quarterback,” Landry
said of White on Monday, six days
before training camp opens in
Thousand Oaks, Calif. “He’s got the
ball. He is going to play until he
proves he can’t do the job the way I
want him to.”
pion until he proves he’s not the
champion anymore.
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team and there’s a good feeling.i
Landry said Gary Hogeboom is
still in the running for the starting
assignment later. But Landry said he
favors the 33-year-old White over
Hogeboom, 26, because he detects a
difference in the way White is per
ceived by his teammates.
“He (White) has got to play poorly
(before he loses the job),” Landry
said. “How poorly? I can’t tell you. If
in my eyes he’s performing as well as
he can and the failure is someplace
else, I’m not going to penalize him.
I’m going to make a decision based
on what’s best for the team.”
Landry’s preseason prediction is
that the Cowboys will trail Washing
ton, St. Louis and New York.
“Washington got (George) Rogers
and they have confidence in him and
(John) Riggins,” Landry said- “Ev
erybody can start picking dark
horses to knock off the champion,
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fter Washington, it’s St. L.ouis,
then New York and Dallas,” he said.
“I think New York improved in the
draft and they will be tough. I pick
us fourth. I like that position. I like
to come from behind.”
Washington won the NFC East
last year at 1 1-5, followed by the
Cowboys, Giants and Cardinals at 9-
7.
“We have to re-establish ourselves
as a winning team, a playoff team,”
Landry said. “You can’t sit here and
say you’re going to be in the playoffs
before the season starts when you
just got knocked out of the playoffs.
We have to recognize we have a fight
ahead of us. We nave to re-earn it.”
Landry said the morale and atmo
sphere of the club is now more con
ducive to White keeping his job. Ho
geboom was a surprise first-game
starter last season who later lost, re
gained, then lost the position to
White again.
“It wasn’t Danny’s ability last year,
it was the team and how they felt,”
he said. ‘T he climate was not right,
so I made a change.
“We had a problem with morale.
We needed solid team unity. So we
went with Gary and won the first
game. We probably would have won
more if our receivers would have
stayed healthy.
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last January at a bar in Dallas.
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