With another Monday Night Football game now completed, here is the 1973 Topps football card of former St. Louis Cardinals offensive tackle Dan Dierdorf, who was a color commentator on MNF for 12 seasons. Dierdorf played on an offensive line for the Cardinals in the 1970s that was one of the NFL’s best, and in 1975 they allowed a then-league record low of 8 sacks for the entire season (the Bears gave up 9 in the first half last Sunday night). Dierdorf was an All Pro selection 6 times, was voted as a lineman on the all-decade team of the ’70s, and was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Dierdorf has enjoyed an equally successful career in broadcasting. While working for ABC and doing the Monday night telecasts, he showed versatility by also working as a boxing commentator for the network and serving as a correspondent on the Calgary Winter Olympics in 1988. After a shakeup at ABC in 1998, Deirdorf signed on with CBS as an analyst on NFL games and continues in that position today. He is in the Hall of Fame as both a player and broadcaster, as he won the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2008, given annually to a broadcaster who has made significant contributions to the sport through the media.
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