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    NFL broadcaster, local icon Pat Summerall dies at age 82





    Richard Michael Pruitt/DMN File 1994 Football broadcaster Pat Summerall in his Irving, Texas home in 1994. SportsDayDFW.com
    SportsDayDFW.com The Dallas Morning News
    Published: 16 April 2013 03:48 PM
    RelatedVideo: Pat Summerall's open to the Cowboys' win in Super Bowl XII
    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.

  • #2
    Rip

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    • #3
      I really miss the Summerall/Madden/Captain Obvious duo.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Ted View Post
        ...signature succinct staccato style...
        Distracting use of alliteration.
        Originally posted by Broncojohnny
        HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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        • #5
          RIP. I loved driving by his house on Whites Chapel in Southlake back in the day.
          Ford
          GM
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          VAG

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          • #6
            Damn, RIP Pat!
            "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, 1776

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            • #7
              Rip
              satisfaction is the death of desire...

              its still "We the people"...right?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Sean88gt View Post
                I really miss the Summerall/Madden/Captain Obvious duo.
                What I loved is when Summeral plugged a show. Something like "Stay tuned for 'How your Sister Fucked my dog' here on (whatever network he was on)," and he'd do it in the same grid iron, NFL monotone voice. Fabulous.

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                • #9
                  He's one of the good ones. He'll be missed. RIP.

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                  • #10
                    Touching off mic tribute.

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