Dierdorf Joins Frank Gifford and John Madden as Only Third Member of

Pro Football Hall of Famer with Distinction of Also Winning Rozelle Award

Dan Dierdorf is the 2008 recipient of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.  The award, given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, recognizes "long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football."

Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996, Dierdorf played 13 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals (1971-1983).  He joins Frank Gifford and John Madden as the only members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to also have won the Rozelle Award.

Dierdorf began his broadcasting career in 1984. That year he served as color analyst for KMOX Radio's coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals, announced National Football League games for the CBS Radio Network and provided color commentary for radio broadcasts of the National Hockey League's St. Louis Blues. His extensive broadcasting experience includes 16 years with KMOX. He also served as sports director for KMOV-TV St. Louis.

A former NFL All-Pro tackle with the Cardinals, Dierdorf had been a play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports' NFL broadcasts in 1985 before switching to color analysis in 1986. After serving as an analyst for ABC Sports' "Monday Night Football" for more than a decade beginning in 1987, the popular Canton, Ohio native returned to CBS Sports in 1999 as a game analyst for the network's coverage of THE NFL ON CBS. He paired with Verne Lundquist in 1999 before spending six seasons as a partner with previous Rozelle Award winner Dick Enberg. Since 2006, Dierdorf has teamed with play-by-play announcer Greg Gumbel.

Nationally recognized as one of the top football announcers in the industry, Dierdorf is a three-time Emmy Award nominee (1987, 1988, and 1989) as Outstanding Sports Analyst.  During his NFL career, he was named All-Pro five times, was selected as the NFL Players Association's top offensive lineman three times and was voted to the NFL Team of the Decade for the 1970s.

Dierdorf was a two-time All-Big Ten tackle at the University of Michigan, where he was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame and was a consensus All-America selection as a senior. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000 and is also a member of the State of Missouri Hall of Fame and the State of Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. In 2006, he was inducted into the Arizona Cardinals Ring of Honor as recognition for his years with the Cardinals when they played in St. Louis.

Active in his community, Dierdorf has served for 23 years on the Board of Trustees of Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, which includes an emergency and trauma center named in his honor, and for 27 years on the board of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's St. Louis Chapter. He and his wife Debbie live in St. Louis and are the parents of four children.