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Streator native, Browns announcer Doug Dieken will retire after Sunday’s season finale

By J.T. Pedelty

Doug Dieken, receives his NewsTrbune's Illinois Valley Sports Hall of Fame award from Lanny Slevin. Dieken is a 1967 graduate of Streator High School where he was a four-sport athlete and two-time All-State football selection. Dieken was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the 1971 NFL Draft where he played 14 seasons as an offensive lineman and set team records with 194 straight starts and 203 consecutive games played.

CLEVELAND – Cleveland Browns, University of Illinois and Streator High School legend Doug Dieken has announced his intentions to retire as the Browns’ color analyst after the NFL team’s final game of the season Sunday.

Dieken – a 1967 graduate of Streator High School and a charter member of the Streator High School Sports Hall of Fame – was a star football player for the Bulldogs and then with the Illinois Fighting Illini. He was drafted by the Browns in sixth round of the 1971 NFL Draft and converted from a tight end to a left tackle, where he went on to have a 14-season, Pro Bowl career, start 194 consecutive games for the Browns and win the 1982 NFL Man of the Year Award.

Streator native Doug Dieken

Immediately after retiring as a player in 1984, Dieken joined the Browns radio broadcast team as a color analyst and has served in that capacity since with the exception of the three-year hiatus when Cleveland was without an NFL team.

Dieken will be honored Sunday during the Browns’ home season finale against the Bengals.