[3] Former coaches who employed Dickerson, and players who played under him, considered him "a buffoon" and "degrading;" Levy noted that "his idea of motivation was 'Hey, boy, get your fucking fat ass over here!
[3] Before Super Bowl XXVI, Dickerson mocked the Washington Redskins' famed offensive line, "The Hogs", in a television interview.
Dickerson said Redskins tackle Joe Jacoby was "a Neanderthal -- he slobbers a lot, he probably kicks dogs in his neighborhood."
That’s why he’s been fired more times than a Civil War cannon.”[3] Dickerson began his broadcast career on WGR 550 in 1993, hosting a three-hour afternoon drive-time show for almost ten years, leaving the station in 2003.
In his last year on air, he was forced to share a program with Mike Schopp, who had previously been Dickerson's nemesis at crosstown rival WNSA.
Dickerson was known for his blunt and provocative opinions, and his pushing the boundaries of decency acceptable on terrestrial radio in the 1990s, regularly using language such as "crap" and "hell," occasionally invoking Nazi references, and eviscerating his former co-workers on the Bills payroll, while heaping even further scorn on the Buffalo Sabres, at the time contending for the Stanley Cup.
Dickerson was married to his wife, Shirley, for over 60 years before her death due to COVID-19 in June 2020,[12] and has an adult child (Chris) and several grandchildren.