Posted on 04/16/2013 2:25:41 PM PDT by re_nortex
Pat Summerall died Tuesday. He was 82.
He died in his hospital room at Zale Lipshy Hospital where he was recovering from surgery for a broken hip, a family friend confirmed.
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I didn’t even know he had broken his hip. Not good at that age.
Actually one of the better football announcers IMHO was Vin Scully when he did NFL games for CBS....he announced “The Catch” in the 81 NFC Championship Game.
Every once and a while, Pat had a little too much cough medicine before the game.
No one complained. We all loved the guy more for it, in fact.
Simpler times, better times. Thanks to Pat
Go Mustangs !
He was also a pretty goods kicker..
I’ll forgive him for not choosing to go to UF.
As a Razorback and a football fan, I am deeply saddened by the passing of Mr. Summerall. It is a sad day. I hope he gets to call a game with Paul Eeels now!
Much like old Cold War Soviet Dictators who caught colds, the elderly who fall and break hips seldom recover.
Broken hip leads to immobility leads to pneumonia*
* an old man's best friend per my dad, an old country doc.
Yes he was! His game winning kick led AR past TX the first time ever in Fayetteville.
If he had been British, no doubt there would be the usual snide comments about the NHS killing him.
However I will resist any such comment about US healthcare.
As a friend of mine in Texas puts it: "That ain't right, but it's fer dangsure true."
Sooo understated, unlike today's buttkissers such as Joe Buck.
Unrelated subject, but I just saw today that NBC signed a major deal with the English Premier League to carry their games here in the US.
I remember watching his last broadcast. One of the posters in the stands read:
Summerral the same Pat,
But you’re one of a kind.
Summerall was a longtime NFL defensive lineman who also was a placekicker....back in his era it was common for a regular every down player to kick ( Lou “The Toe” Groza was a DL/PK for the Browns)
He had that awesome baritone voice that you find in Florida natives before the Northern Invasion (Like Buddy Ebsen, Pat Boone)...Summer all originally from Lake City
Pretty much all of the great old baseball/football announcers hailed from the South.
GMTA.
Red Barber, Keith Jackson, Mel Allen and Ernie Harwell come immediately to mind. Yet, in a twist of irony, some of the iconic broadcasters for Southern teams are New Yorkers.
The Texas Rangers PBP man, Eric Nadel, is from Brooklyn and another one from there is Eli Gold, the voice of perhaps the most Southern of all sports teams, Alabama's (the "Heart of Dixie") Crimson Tide. And of course Gold is associated with NASCAR, a sport that for many years was almost exclusively Southern.
Mark Holtz was the best though...Nadel can’t hold a candle to him.
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