Dan Dierdorf
Actor · b. 1949 · Canton, Ohio, USA
Dan Dierdorf is a former NFL offensive lineman and longtime football broadcaster, known for his insightful commentary and steady presence across multiple decades of network television. A Hall of Fame player with the St. Louis Cardinals during the 1970s, Dierdorf transitioned seamlessly into broadcasting after his playing career ended in 1983. He began his media career with CBS before moving to ABC’s Monday Night Football in 1987, where he spent over a decade as one of the league’s most prominent analysts. Dierdorf’s commentary was known for its balance: firm, informed, and delivered without exaggeration, often drawing on his offensive line background to highlight nuances of trench play that were otherwise overlooked. In 1999, he returned to CBS as a lead analyst for The NFL on CBS, where he called multiple playoff games and remained a central figure in the network’s NFL coverage through the 2013 season. Dierdorf also contributed to college football broadcasts and various studio assignments during his career. Respected for both his football intellect and straightforward style, Dierdorf was honored with the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2008 for his exceptional contributions to sports broadcasting.
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Movie7.0ComedyDramaJerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.
Jerry Maguire
1996 · 3.9K votes
Movie5.7DocumentaryCrimeSteve McNair was an NFL legend whose life was seemingly cut short by a crime of passion. Is there more to this chilling tragedy than meets the eye?
Untold: The Murder of Air McNair
2024 · 42 votes
Movie5.2ComedyFamilyA Philadelphia garbageman is discovered by the Philadelphia Eagles and signed by them to become a kicker.
- MovieDocumentary
MovieDocumentaryIn September 1970, ABC Sports started a revolution that became an American Institution. Now, 25 seasons later, the beginning of every autumn work week is much easier to handle. The 25th Anniversary of ABC's Monday Night Football celebrates the highlights and history made by football's greatest players and play-by-players. The hard-hitting action is all here in classic overtime victories, amazing runs, winning kicks, blitzes, bloopers and bizarre moments from the NFL's greatest night.
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TV6.7ComedyHayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, fatherhood and family life without dropping the ball.
Coach
1989 · 67 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaWorkaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
Spin City
1996 · 350 votes
TVHoward Cosell hosted the first instalment of Monday Night Football.
TV7.0ComedyWidower and professor Porter Waide has his life turned upside down with the arrival of his football player brother, Bobby, who's gotten into so much trouble that he's been contracted to live with a responsible relative. This move also disrupts the lives of Porter's impressionable son, Oscar, and Bobby's perpetually annoyed agent, Dena.
Brother's Keeper
1998 · 1 votes