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Article: SUMMERALL'S EXIT WAS NO SURPRISE TO FOX.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2002
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Byline: Dusty Saunders News Broadcasting Critic
Most NFL announcers spent the 2001 season in stadium broadcasting booths.
Not Pat Summerall. He was on a ledge.
And 10 days ago, the veteran sports personality jumped, saying Sunday's Super Bowl would be his finale as Fox's main play-by-play man.
This personal drama will focus more attention than normal on the Super Bowl broadcasting booth.
Summerall was caught in a typical did-he-jump-or-was-he-pushed broadcasting scenario. The 71-year-old sportscaster leaped, but not before he had been given a hefty nudge from Fox executives. The network might want a replacement who offers a ...