They kept me 33 because I was so angry at the people who did the intervention, the first five days didn't do me any good." "The prescribed stay at Betty Ford is 28 days. "I had no intention of quitting, I was having too good a time," Summerall said in a 2000 Associated Press story.
The lifesaving surgery was necessary even after 12 years of sobriety.Īfter an intervention involving, among others, former NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, former CBS Sports President Peter Lund and former PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beaman, Summerall checked into the Betty Ford Clinic in April 1992. There will be a piece of Pat Summerall on the air as long as I do golf for this network."Ī recovering alcoholic, Summerall had a liver transplant in April 2004. "He's been a much larger influence on my career than I think he realizes. I always thought he could work here until he was 75 or 80 years old," Nantz told The Philadelphia Daily News then. At the time, CBS Sports anchor Jim Nantz said he was "very saddened" that Summerall didn't get to leave CBS under his own terms. He had hoped to keep working with CBS for other events like the Masters, but network executives saw it otherwise. When CBS lost its NFL deal after the 1993 season, Summerall switched to Fox to keep calling NFL games with Madden. He was also part of CBS's coverage of the PGA Tour, including the Masters from 1968-94, and U.S. Summerall started doing NFL games for CBS in 1964, and became a play-by-play guy 10 years later. He was also one of the great storytellers who ever spoke into a microphone." "He was a master of restraint in his commentary, an example for all of us. "Pat was a friend of nearly 40 years," CBS Sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist said.
Summerall played 10 NFL seasons (1952-61) with the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants, but it was in his second career that he became a voice familiar to generations of sports fans, not only those of the NFL.
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"You are what the NFL is all about, what pro football is all about, and more important, what a man is all about and what a gentleman is all about," Madden said.Īs former teammate and broadcaster Frank Gifford put it in an accompanying video tribute: "America is very comfortable with Pat Summerall." A flawless summation without distracting from the reaction viewers could see on the screen.Īt the end of their final broadcast together, Madden described Summerall as "a treasure" and the "spirit of the National Football League" in a tribute to the partner that complemented the boisterous former Oakland Raiders coach so well.
And the Patriots have won Super Bowl XXXVI. His final play-by-play words beside Madden were succinct, of course, as he called the game-ending field goal of the Super Bowl for Fox on Feb. "He was an extraordinary man and a wonderful father," said Susie Wiles, his daughter. Summerall died Tuesday at age 82 of cardiac arrest, said University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center spokesman Jeff Carlton, speaking on behalf of Summerall's wife, Cheri. Open tennis tournament with a simple, understated style that was the perfect complement for the "booms!" and "bangs!" of Madden, his partner for half of the NFL player-turned-broadcaster's career. Simple, spare, he delivered the details on 16 Super Bowls, the Masters and the U.S. Over four decades, Summerall's deep, resonant voice described some of the biggest games in America. DALLAS-Pat Summerall was the calm alongside John Madden's storm.
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