Dan Miller (born 1962 or 1963)[1] is an American sportscaster based in Detroit, Michigan.
[2] He works as the sports director and anchor on WJBK ("Fox 2") and as a radio play-by-play announcer on the Detroit Lions Radio Network.
Miller was born in Washington, D.C.,[3] and raised there and in Northern Virginia.
He played several sports as a child, including basketball, football, and baseball.
He says his father wasn't a sports fan but he always took him to his games and practices.
[3] As a teenager, Miller attended Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts and Washington Redskins games with his father, who was a season ticket holder to the latter, even though "he didn't even know how to keep score".
He also never missed one of his basketball, baseball or football games when his son was on the team.
[3] Upon graduating high school, Miller, got a job at Mutual Radio Network affiliates WJLA and WTEM as a college student to help as an engineer for their weekend sportscasts.
At the job interview, he was asked if he knew how to edit audio tape.
[3] Miller attended George Mason University.
[4] In 1992, Miller got a job at WTNT ("Sports Radio 570") in Washington, D.C., as an overnight talk show host and Washington Redskins beat reporter.
[3] In 1994, he got his first job in TV at WTTG as host of the Washington Redskins pre-game show.
[3] From 1994 to 1997, Miller was a play-by-play announcer for NFL on Fox's regional broadcasts.
[3] In 1997, he joined Detroit's WJBK (Fox 2) as sports director and on-air personality.
Miller regularly appears via satellite to discuss the Lions on NFL Network's pre-game show NFL Game Day Morning during the "Word on the Street" segment.
Since 2005, Miller has been the radio play-by-play announcer for the NFL's Detroit Lions[6] as well the host of their official pre-game discussion show The Lions Roundtable on the Detroit Lions Radio Network, teaming with long-time color commentator Jim Brandstatter, and sideline reporter Tony Ortiz.
Miller replaced longtime Lions play-by-play man Mark Champion.
Miller also hosts The Lions Review Show on WXYT-FM during the NFL season.
[7] The Detroit Free Press named Miller the "best local TV sportscaster" for 2004.
[citation needed] Clock ticks down here in Green Bay.
For sixteen weeks, starting in Atlanta back in September, they took the field thinking this was gonna be their day.
Zero and sixteen, those are the numbers that will forever be associated with the Detroit Lions.Three receivers to the right side.
MATTHEW TOOK IT ACROSS, AND THE LIONS HAVE TAKEN THE LEAD, WITH TWELVE SECONDS TO GO!
Rodgers on the final play of the game, slipped inside of all the defenders in the endzone, and made the catch for the score.
FIRES THAT BALL INTO THE STANDS AND THE LIONS HAVE THE LEAD BACK WITH SIXTEEN SECONDS LEFT.
He's got Golden Tate, who makes the catch, inside the fifteen.
From the Falcon 11 yard line, down by 6, final play of the game.
Back, looks, looks, pumps once, steps up, looks, throws, end zone...CAUGHT!
Jared Goff to Amon-Ra St. Brown, his first career touchdown, AND HOW BIG IS THAT?!?!?
Sheila Hamp, Rod Wood, Mike Disner, Chris Spielman, Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell, they've brought it back to Detroit, they've given it to us.