As previously mentioned, during the 1987 season, through a short stint with NBC Sports, Gayle Sierens became the first woman to do play-by-play for an NFL regular season football game when she called the December 27 game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs. Sierens' broadcast partner on that day was Dave Rowe. She was originally to be a regular play-by-play announcer for the season, but a contract dispute with WFLA in Tampa, Florida prevented her from continuing in that role beyond her lone game. One year later, Sierens would join Len Berman and Paul Maguire on NBC's "NFL Live!" program while regular panelists Bob Costas, Ahmad Rashād and Gayle Gardner were in Seoul for the Summer Olympics.