Article: From watching to being 'Dandy Don'

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BRAD BEYER

From watching to being 'Dandy Don'

Thursday, January 10, 2002

As a kid in Waukesha, Brad Beyer was allowed to stay up to watch "Monday Night Football" with Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith, provided he'd finished his homework. On Monday, some other schoolboy will no doubt be watching Beyer as ex-Dallas Cowboy quarterback and commentator "Dandy Don," opposite John Turturro as Cosell and Kevin Anderson as Gifford, in "Monday Night Mayhem" (8 p.m., TNT), a new cable movie. A 1992 graduate of Waukesha Catholic Memorial High School, on whose football team he played wide receiver, Beyer tried drama at the University of Minnesota, then took a chance on New York ...

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