# Broadcaster and former Razorback Pat Summerall died **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 16, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888 "2013-04-16T22:48:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/1 "2013-04-16T22:48:36Z")
Pat remained a Razorback suppoerter all his life. He often returned to help with the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame activities. He was one heck of a broadcaster too. I still think of Pat anytime I watch a NFL game. He was the NFL game voice that I listened to for a long time. He called 16 Super Bowls. R.I.P. [http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/04/16/pat-summerall-cbs-fox-nfl/2088571/](http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/04/16/pat-summerall-cbs-fox-nfl/2088571/) > [@](#): > > For many sports fans in the 1960s through the 1990s, Pat Summerall was the voice of the NFL, starting with CBS’ Sunday telecasts and later with Fox, famously paired for much of that time with John Madden. > > Summerall, 82, passed away Tuesday in Dallas, said his daughter, Susie Wiles. > **[Former Hog Pat Summerall dies at 82](https://katv.com/archive/former-hog-pat-summerall-dies-at-82)** > > DALLAS -- Pat Summerall, the former Razorback and NFL player-turned-broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 82. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/2 "2013-04-16T23:14:35Z")
I’ll have a shot for Pat tonight. R.I.P. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/3 "2013-04-16T23:38:50Z")
☹ Buy something from your local TrueValue hardware store in his honor. He had a hard life, 82 years is a pretty good run. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/4 "2013-04-17T02:02:07Z")
Young whippersnappers don’t remember that George “Pat” Summerall was a player for the Chicago Cardinals and my New York Giants way back when. He was a very good kicker, which is why he got the nickname “PAT” (point after touchdown). Summerall and Tom Brookshier were the announcers I first listened to as a novice football fan, and I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for them. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/5 "2013-04-17T03:42:24Z")
I always liked him because we’re the same height. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/6 "2013-04-17T13:23:27Z")
I hope it was peaceful for him. I know he was sounding rough even back at the last Super Bowl Detroit hosted in 2006. I’ll remember him as the voice of Madden football. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/7 "2013-04-17T14:16:27Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Young whippersnappers don’t remember that George “Pat” Summerall was a player for the Chicago Cardinals and my New York Giants way back when. He was a very good kicker, which is why he got the nickname “PAT” (point after touchdown). > > Summerall and Tom Brookshier were the announcers I first listened to as a novice football fan, and I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for them. I did not know that. And I grew up in Dallas, where he was the voice of football amen. Just thought his name was Pat. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/8 "2013-04-17T14:43:13Z")
Happy to see that John Madden had nothing but good things to say about him. > **[John Madden: Pat Summerall was 'card-carrying good guy'](https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-xpm-2013-apr-16-la-sp-sn-madden-summerall-20130416-story.html)** > > John Madden: Pat Summerall was 'card-carrying good guy' ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/9 "2013-04-17T14:48:38Z")
Pat’s teammate Frank Gifford comments about his friend. > **[Frank Gifford calls former NY Giants teammate and friend Pat Summerall a...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2013/04/16/frank-gifford-calls-former-ny-giants-teammate-and-friend-pat-summerall-a-helluva-player/)** > > Frank Gifford lost another piece of his football family when former Giants teammate and good friend Pat Summerall died Tuesday at 82. “You just run out of teammates,” Gifford, 82, told … > [@](#): > > “He was a helluva football player,” Gifford said. “He just didn’t play that much. No one wanted him to get hurt because then we wouldn’t have a kicker. I was the backup kicker. He was a really good kicker.” > > Summerall was in the hospital recovering from surgery for a broken hip. A spokesman for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, speaking for Summerall’s wife Cheri, said he died of sudden cardiac arrest. > > “Pat Summerall was one of the best friends and greatest contributors that the NFL has known,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. “He spent 50 years as part of our league, first as a player on the legendary New York Giants teams of the late ’50s and early ’60s and then as a Hall of Fame broadcaster for CBS and Fox. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/10 "2013-04-17T16:25:31Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Buy something from your local TrueValue hardware store in his honor. When I was in high school, my dad owned a True Value hardware store. We had a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Pat in the store. We closed the store just as I graduated from high school (the recession of the early 1980s killed it). Pat wound up in my dorm room. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/11 "2013-04-17T16:53:24Z")
He and Madden will forever be my favorite NFL broadcast team. Compare them to a duo like Buck and Aikman and the later are just a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/12 "2013-04-17T17:50:45Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Buy something from your local TrueValue hardware store in his honor. “This oval doesn’t mean a thing by itself, but when you combine it with price, service, and selection it means TruValue Hardware!” ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/13 "2013-04-17T18:23:25Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > He and Madden will forever be my favorite NFL broadcast team. Compare them to a duo like Buck and Aikman and the later are just a joke. Me too, but I think some of that is nostalgia speaking. Among the new guys I really enjoy Collinsworth and Michaels as a team. They are first rate. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/broadcaster-and-former-razorback-pat-summerall-died/655888/14 "2013-04-18T12:50:27Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Me too, but I think some of that is nostalgia speaking. Among the new guys I really enjoy Collinsworth and Michaels as a team. They are first rate. Yes!