Don Meredith died as a result of a hemorrhagic stroke. Meredith died of a cerebral hemorrhage on December 5, 2010, at St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 72 years old at the time. He was put to rest at Mount Vernon, Texas, his hometown. Frank Gifford, an NFL and broadcasting legend, died at the age of 84. Gifford was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1930, and attended the University of Southern California on a football scholarship before being drafted 11th overall in the first round of the 1952 NFL Draft. Gifford spent his entire NFL career with the New York Giants, from 1952 to 1964.