It’s hard to find an NFL announcer who gets regular praise from viewers. However, some announcers are demonstrably worse than others. Among the worst is Dan Dierdorf, who has not only been around forever, aw-shucking his way through broadcasts and doing things like calling the Bengals “the Bengalers”. It’s still hard to believe that Dierdorf used to be in the booth for Monday Night Football, back when MNF was still the marquee NFL game of the week. Jon Gruden is a revelation compared to him.
But no more! Dierdorf is going away after this season! Finally! No doubt he’ll be replaced by someone else who is bad at announcing football games, but his replacement would be hard pressed to be as bad at explaining rules and pronouncing names as Dierdorf.