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 Pat Summerall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Summerall played college football from 1949 to 1951 at the University of Arkansas, where he played the defensive end, tight end, and placekicker positions.
Summerall spent 10 years as a professional football player in the National Football League, primarily as a placekicker.
Summerall was lured out of retirement and re-signed with Fox for the 2002 NFL season, working with Brian Baldinger on regional telecasts before retiring again after one year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Summerall   (868 words)

  
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Pat Summerall, 31 at the time, started in radio, and by the late '60s, was sports director of WCBS in New York.
PAT SUMMERALL: It was go, go, go, and laugh and have a good time, and be the first one at the bar and the last one at the bar.
PAT SUMMERALL: Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn-around.
www.cbn.com /700club/features/sports_pat_summerall.asp   (1137 words)

  
 Pat Summerall (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Following his playing career (he was a placekicker for the New York Giants of the National Football League), Summerall turned to broadcasting for the CBS network, initially as a color commentator and then (from 1975) as a play-by-play announcer.
For many years Summerall was paired on NFL telecasts with former Oakland Raiders coach John Madden, first on CBS (1981-1993) and then on the Fox network (1994-2002).
Summerall was lured out of retirement and re-signed with Fox for the 2002 NFL season, working with Brian Baldinger on regional telecasts before retiring at the end of the 2002-03 season.
pat-summerall.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (255 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Football / Pat Summerall released after transplant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Broadcaster Pat Summerall was released Wednesday from St. Luke's Hospital, where he received a liver transplant earlier this month.
Summerall will remain in the Jacksonville area for several weeks for outpatient care until his doctors clear him to return home to Texas, the hospital said in a statement.
Summerall played in the NFL from 1952-61 before becoming a broadcaster for the next 40 years.
www.boston.com /sports/football/articles/2004/04/21/pat_summerall_released_after_transplant   (158 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Football / Pat Summerall to get liver transplant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Broadcaster Pat Summerall was hospitalized in stable condition Friday awaiting a donor organ for a liver transplant.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Broadcaster Pat Summerall was hospitalized in stable condition Friday awaiting a donor organ for a liver transplant.
Summerall played in the NFL for 10 years (1952-61) before becoming a broadcaster, then spent more than 40 years in the booth.
www.boston.com /sports/football/articles/2004/04/02/pat_summerall_to_get_liver_transplant   (337 words)

  
 Pat Summerall Liver Transplant (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Chuck Howley and Lee Roy Jordan were honored at the kidney Pat Summerall Summerall 74 was recovering in Jacksonville Fla. from a liver transplant and was unable to attend.
Com 4/2/04) Pat Summerall the veteran broadcaster once considered the voice of the NFL faces weekend surgery for a liver transplant in Eight months after a liver transplant Pat Summerall is thrilled to be healthy enough to do what he does best speaking for a cause he feels more strongly about than football.
Summerall?s life was saved last year with a liver transplant in Jacksonville and the football and broadcast 75 is a recovering alcoholic who got the boy's liver in a transplant in April heart 2004.
www.trasplan.org.cob-web.org:8888 /pat-summerall-liver-transplant.htm   (431 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NFL - Summerall, Madden parting ways following season
NEW YORK -- Pat Summerall and John Madden are parting ways after 21 years in which they became the standard by which NFL announcing teams are judged.
Summerall's play-by-play and Madden's color analysis have complemented each other since they were paired at CBS in 1981.
Summerall, whose Fox contract expires at the end of this season, said he decided two weeks ago to move on.
espn.go.com /nfl/news/2002/0122/1315510.html   (462 words)

  
 123 Christian Forums :: View topic - Pat Summerall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pat Summerall, one of the most well-known voices and faces associated with the National Football League over the last 40 years, has now become a faithful voice for his new faith in Jesus Christ —thanks to a remarkable transformation in his life.
Summerall freely admits he became an alcoholic while broadcasting on TV and was ultimately living from drink to drink as his body broke down.
Summerall says he had been around rough and tough football players all of his life, but when he was baptized before a large congregation at FBC-Euless, he felt totally helpless.
www.christianforums.net /viewtopic.php?t=3113   (1853 words)

  
 Summerall's final NFL call: 'It's time'
Pat Summerall, the pre-eminent network NFL voice for a generation of television viewers, informed Fox Sports on Thursday that he is retiring from play-by-play duty.
Summerall, who said his health is "terrific," has signed on as spokesperson for cable's fledgling Football Network, scheduled to launch in the fall.
Summerall began his broadcasting career with CBS in 1961 after a decade-long career as a player in the league.
www.810whb.com /scripts/archives/getStory.asp?article=5152   (626 words)

  
 Pat Summerall
Pat Summerall’s 50th season in and around the National Football League is under way.
Summerall had a casual touch with that great Bobby Layne-led team before being moved to the Chicago Cardinals, with whom he did the placekicking for five bad teams.
Summerall, who is now 71, eventually let the party times erode the disciplines of broadcasting, of football.
archive.profootballweekly.com /content/archives2001/features_2001/wallace_091701.asp   (1089 words)

  
 Pat Summerall Tickets
Pat Summerall, the pre-eminent network NFL voice for a generation of television viewers, has also overcome a major struggle with alcohol and a liver transplant.
Following his career as a placekicker for the New York Giants, Summerall turned to broadcasting for the CBS network, initially as a color commentator and then as a play-by-play announcer.
For many years Summerall was paired on NFL telecasts with former Oakland Raiders coach John Madden, first on CBS and then on the Fox Network.
www.acu.edu /alumni/whatsnew/rsvp/Copy_of_Pat_Summerall_Tickets.html   (165 words)

  
 Pat Summerall : Client Profile : Ambassador Speakers Bureau & Literary Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pat Summerall is the signature voice of sports broadcasting in America.
Pat received an education degree in 1952 and later earned a master's degree in Russian history.
Summerall's also earned Sportscaster of the Year honors from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Quarterback Club, the Golden Mike Award from the Touchdown Club of America (1977) and the Association of Tennis Professionals' JAKS Award as Tennis Broadcaster of the Year (1983).
www.ambassadoragency.com /print_client_profile.cfm/cid/97   (532 words)

  
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Summerall is a recovering alcoholic, who was convinced by friends in 1992 to enter the Betty Ford Treatment Center in California.
Summerall, who played in the NFL for 10 years before becoming a broadcaster, spent more than 40 years in the booth.
Summerall said that he had recently undergone tests at the Mayo Clinic in Florida that confirmed he needed the transplant.
www.firstcoastnews.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=17130   (399 words)

  
 Michael Eisen - Story - 7/11 Where Are They Now? Pat Summerall - Giants.com
Summerall called a record 16 Super Bowls (five as an analyst and 11 as a play-by-play man) and his 21-year partnership with analyst John Madden created what many critics and viewers consider the greatest announcing tandem in sports broadcasting history.
Summerall is a member of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame, and he has received numerous citations, including a Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Summerall was one of many Giants confused by the events at the end of the fourth quarter.
www.giants.com /news/eisen/story.asp?story_id=6910   (2377 words)

  
 SPORTS: Pat Summerall’s salvation - (BP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As important as the liver transplant was for Summerall, however, it wasn't as vital as another transformation that took place in his life a few years ago.
Summerall became a Christian at age 69 and was baptized at First Baptist Church of Euless, Texas.
Summerall is proof of that, and he's likely still alive today because of it.
www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?Id=18276   (528 words)

  
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Pat’s broadcast career was something he hadn’t planned on pursuing, but rather something that just kind of happened.
Through his career, Pat encountered and interacted with numerous celebrities and professional athletes who are legends themselves.
Pat continued his broadcast career with CBS for 32 years.
www.cbn.com /700club/guests/bios/Pat_Summerall092806.aspx   (617 words)

  
 Let Summerall make the final call - Remote Patrol - Pat Summerall, sports journalist ready to retire from broadcasting ...
Indications are Super Bowl 36 will be the inevitable coda to Pat Summerall's career--the main indication being his contract expires at the end of the game.
Summerall was told he was going to lose his Maddencruiser privileges in '02 and must retire or accept a demotion.
During a Bears-Buccaneers showcase, Summerall misidentified players, awarded a touchdown one play early and declared Chicago could run out the clock--only to be as shocked as Madden by the Bucs calling timeouts and trying the tying field goal.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_4_226/ai_82885033   (567 words)

  
 Pat Summerall, retiring?
Pat Summerall was a member of the Giants, the losing team that day.
His answer that the Pat's should sit on it the last 1:30 and play to win in overtime is the old school coaching answer from the same kind of thinking that gives up the short pass to protect the lead when the other team has the ball at the end.
Summerall's style gave Madden, who is a talker, the room to pontificate without overburdening the telecast.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/621227/posts   (2578 words)

  
 C4TF: Pat Summerall (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-5.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pat: One time I had an idle moment--some meeting I was at--supposed to be paying attention to the meeting, but I started writing down all the people that I'd worked with.
Pat: I had the opportunity to work for Ray Scott for six years and I saw how meticulous he was, how careful he was about being correct, and the fact that he didn't have to be in a hurry to tell the story.
Pat: Everyone thinks when you watch golf broadcast that there's nothing to it, but golf actually is the most difficult.
www.blogspy.com.cob-web.org:8888 /contend/interviews.php?id=iPat   (2841 words)

  
 Pat Summerall to speak at ACU in Centennial Speaker Series
As a professional football player, Summerall was best known as the kicker for the legendary New York Giants championship teams of the late 50s and 60s.
Summerall has received prestigious awards for his contributions to professional football including the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award, and the NFL Alumni's prestigious Order of the Leather Helmet.
Summerall also earned Sportscaster of the Year honors from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Quarterback Club, the Golden Mike Award from the Touchdown Club of America (1977) and the Association of Tennis Professional's JAKS Award as Tennis Broadcaster of the Year (1983).
www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2005/051026_pat_summerall.html   (492 words)

  
 American Sportscasters Association | Hall Of Fame - Pat Sumerall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New York, December 22-- Pat Summerall has been selected by the membership of the American Sportscasters Association (ASA) as the 1999 Hall of Fame inductee, it was announced today by Louis O. Schwartz, President of the ASA.
Summerall's career as an announcer began with CBS in 1961.
Summerall was named ASA Sportscaster of the Year in 1994.
www.americansportscasters.com /sumerall.html   (344 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Broadcaster Pat Summerall receives liver transplant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Pat Summerall, legendary sportscaster for CBS and Fox for 41 years, underwent a successful liver transplant operation on Saturday at St. Luke's hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
Summerall, 73, was flown to Jacksonville on April 1 via air ambulance from his home in Dallas to await the transplant.
Overall, Summerall was a part of 16 Super Bowl telecasts, 11 on play-by-play.
www.usatoday.com /sports/2004-04-10-summerall-transplant_x.htm   (371 words)

  
 Pat Summerall's new life
Summerall knows what is happening in that circle because he has lived it.
Now, as he enters a new stage of his media career, Summerall is trying to figure out how to tell both sides of this story.
Now, Summerall is being asked to focus on something totally different -- the very personal story of his battle with alcohol.
tmatt.gospelcom.net /column/2002/02/27   (729 words)

  
 FOX13 Investigative
Summerall is now a spokesperson for a video production company baring his name.
Pat Summerall Productions is based in a suburb of Dallas, Texas and the company offers awards to leaders in industry, government and schools through a program call "Champions of Industry."
Pat Summerall Productions told the city the fee was to help cover the cost of making a video to showcase New Port Richey.
www.wtvt.com /investreptr/pat-summeral.html   (677 words)

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