NFL broadcaster, local icon Pat Summerall dies at age 82
Source: Dallas Morning News
Employing a signature succinct staccato style that was brief and to the point, Pat Summerall grew into the pre-eminent network NFL voice for a generation of television viewers. Summerall has died at age 82.
He worked a record 16 Super Bowls on network television, the first five as an analyst. He worked for CBS from 1961 to 1993. He moved with the NFL from CBS to Fox in 1994. He retired after the 2002 season.
Summerall worked his final Super Bowl in February 2002. It was his eighth alongside analyst John Madden. They worked together at CBS and Fox for 21 seasons. Their work at Super Bowl XVI in 1982 remains the highest-rated sports program of all-time, with more than 49 percent of the nation tuned in.
Summerall was a regular-season Sunday staple in most Dallas-Fort Worth homes during the 1990s. He and Madden were regularly assigned to the NFL's No. 1 television attraction, the Cowboys. Not a bad deal for Summerall, who lived barely 20 minutes away from Texas Stadium in Southlake, with his second wife, Cheri.
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BeyondGeography
(39,351 posts)Perfect voice. Restrained as well, compared with today's bloviators. An example of letting the pictures tell the story:
But getting in a great line, too: "There will be no three-peat."
Struggled mightily with the alcoholic demon...RIP, Pat.
Hawaii Hiker
(3,165 posts)Sf finally beat the Cowboys in the NFC title game..
Botany
(70,449 posts)Flashmann
(2,140 posts)RIP!
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)No voice in the world said "Big and important game" like the voice of Pat Summerall.
He was the sports announcing version of Walter Cronkite.
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)Sports broadcasting sucked less when you were around.
TeamPooka
(24,210 posts)RIP Pat.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)He was legend. He was old school. RIP.
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)In contrast to many of today's barking, howling morons.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)talking all over the action. The game was the story, not how often or how loud he spoke. He was the perfect TV play by play guy.
House of Roberts
(5,167 posts)along with his partner, Tom Brookshier.
lastlib
(23,168 posts)...I COULD.NOT.STAND.john madden!!
I would turn the sound off rather than listen to that pompous annoying blowhard!
RZM
(8,556 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)You knew it was a big game when Summerall/Brookshier (later Summerall/Madden called it). Also did The US Open and The Masters. He was the voice of my youth.
BumRushDaShow
(128,527 posts)One of the great classic sports guys.
R.I.P.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)The Wizard
(12,536 posts)kicking a winning field goal 49 yards in the snow to give the Giants the Eastern Conference title. RIP Pat, always a class act.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)What a great NFL voice. Loved him with John Madden.
MADem
(135,425 posts)That was the catch phrase for an ad he did for a hardware store years ago.
A friend of mine went in to one of them once and said "Pat Summerall sent me" and they gave him a contractor's discount!