People: May 27, 1985

As the voices of Monday Night Football, they are already an odd couple, so why shouldn't Frank Gifford and Don Meredith make it official? To help raise money for the Festival Theater in Santa Fe, Dandy Don and the Giffer opened there last week in Neil Simon's comedy The Odd Couple. Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, plays Oscar Madison, the slob's slob, complete with a cigar and a New York Mets baseball cap. ("I hate the Yankees," he explains.) Gifford, the ex-New York Giants running back, is Felix Unger, the neat freak. Although Meredith did a show at the same...

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