Summerall: On and Off the Air [Hardcover]

Pat Summerall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 22, 2006

For more than three decades, countless millions of sports fans have welcomed him into their living rooms. Now, broadcasting legend Pat Summerall is granting you more intimate access into his extraordinary life.

This is the voice of Pat Summerall as you've never heard it before. Personal. Revealing. And willing to share with you equally his career victories and private defeats.

Here, Summerall calls the plays of his own life story. It is a story of sports, celebrity, and alcoholism. But, ultimately, the story that Pat Summerall shares from his life is one of spiritual healing and redemptive faith.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (August 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785214925
• ISBN-13: 978-0785214922
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #992,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unlike John Madden's books, August 30, 2006

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bigbook "bigbook" (Gig Harbor, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summerall: On and Off the Air (Hardcover)

Pat Summerall, a terrific longtime sports broadcaster, writes in a straightforward, easy to read style. It's impossible not to "hear" his enjoyable Southern speaking voice as he tells about his college football days at Arkansas, his NFL and broadcasting careers and his terrible fight with alcohol abuse . His former CBS and Fox broadcast booth partner, John Madden, wrote several funny and opinionated books in the 1980s. On and Off the Air is unlike those in content and style. Summerall reveals much more about himself personally than did Madden and discusses the nuts and bolts of how television covers professional football. Like when the two called games together, John Madden is the frenetic, bombastic commentator while Pat Summerall comes across as the smooth, down to earth pro. An excellent book, I wish it were a bit longer.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal and Revealing, November 9, 2006

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This review is from: Summerall: On and Off the Air (Hardcover)

A wonderful account of the 40's, 50's, and 60's and beyond. If you followed college and pro football in those years, this is nostalgia with a capital N. Pat's successes and problems are laid out in a humble way, and his faith statement will be hard to match anywhere in professional sports. This book reads like a (lengthy) newspaper account of the great game (wherever and whenever it was played).

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good read, August 27, 2006

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This review is from: Summerall: On and Off the Air (Hardcover)

I enjoyed ths uplifting story of Pat Summerall's life and successes. There are quite a few good anecdotes about his years in football and broadcasting.