Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Former BYU players Gifford Nielsen and Ty Detmer - along with BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe, Elder M. Russell Ballard, BYU President Cecil Samuelson and BYU head football coach LaVell Edwards - watch the retirement of their jerseys in Provo on Sept. 1, 2007.
PROVO — He’s a former All-American quarterback at BYU, a six-year NFL veteran, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame and for decades, and worked as a sports anchor for KHOU in Houston.
These days, Elder S. Gifford Nielsen, a General Authority Seventy, is busily engaged in assignments for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.