Dan Dierdorf Retiring From Broadcast Booth After NFL Season
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The burly, mustachioed color man who followed a Hall of Fame football career with a three-decade stint in the broadcast booth is hanging up his microphone.Dan Dierdorf will retire fromCBS after this season, his 43rd connected to theNational Football League. After a 13-year stint as an offensive tackle for the St. Louis Cardinals, he began his announcing career withCBS Radio in 1984, moving to the TV side the following year. He left CBS in 1987 for ABC, where he did color forMonday Night Football until 1999 and also covered NCAA games, boxing and the 1988 Winter Olympics. He has been with CBS for the past 14 years. Dierdorf’s often brusque, call-it-like-he-sees-it style earned him plenty of detractors — snarky L.A. sports radio legend Jim Healy famously referred to him as “Dan Dierdork” — but in 2008 he became one of only four Pro Football Hall of Fame players to receive the Hall’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award for excellence in broadcasting.
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7 Comments
- Jack Tilton
Just goes to show what drugs and alcohol does to you. Dierdork is as bad as Musburger if that was possible but he managed. Dan will make you change channels.
- Red Right 88
Dierdorf is the best football analyst in the business.
- Ryan in L.A.
Interesting photo selection. Deadline.com never really went for the whole irreverent thing but I guess this is the new management.
- Steve
Love Dierdorf. Great analyst. Maybe that shot can help him revive the Keystone Light “Bitter Beer Face” campaign.
- Anonymous
THANK GOD! This guy has been the worst football broadcaster of the last 30 years. How his contract kept getting renewed for so long is utterly beyond me. He’s the reason that I started watching football with the sound off.
- Jed
He can’t be any worse than Grandpa Dick Stockton on FOX, who fumbles almost every name he comes across during said telecasts.
How that man continues to get work is beyond comprehension.
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