Dierdorf

There are other cameras: one called “All-22,” which shoots the whole field from a fixed position high above; one in the booth for when Gumbel and Dierdorf are onscreen; and for this game, one in the blimp hovering over the stadium, which was providing stunning September-afternoon vistas of Manhattan and northern New Jersey.

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There was no chance of completing a pass, Dierdorf said.

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Dierdorf played in the 275-pound range for those 1970s Cardiac Cards, anchoring a line for a Don Coryell-designed offense similar to the one Fouts operated in San Diego.

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In the pregame conversation, Dierdorf, a Hall of Fame offensive lineman with deep knowledge of the game, who knew that such comments drive the big men crazy, asked if the Bengals blockers had “gotten their noses out of joint.”

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The bookends will be Hall-of-Fame tackle Dan Dierdorf and Willie Roaf, who will doubtless be immortalized soon himself.

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"People forget how big he was at the time (he played)," Sabol says of Dierdorf.

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As if there weren't already enough Kanye West-related Internet memes, on Friday, Seattle-based game designers John Horner and Scott Dierdorf astutely observed that the addition of "Liz Lemon" to almost any of Kanye West's tweets results in the kind of irresistible nonsense talk usually uttered by "30 Rock" character Tracy Jordan.

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Wolff is in charge of the broadcast; Gumbel and analyst Dan Dierdorf are its voices and faces, but their work exists to complement the show Fish orchestrates onscreen.

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There was no chance of completing a pass, Dierdorf said.

The Hardest Job in Football 2009

Michaels and Gifford worked the booth together in 1986, then were joined by Dan Dierdorf for another 10 years.

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