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How Long Did John Madden and Pat Summerall Call Games Together?

• Posted by Erin Loralee December 25, 2021 Filed in Sports #football  #american football  #John Madden  #Pat Summerall  62 views
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  For decades, rarely did a football Sunday go by without the iconic duo of Pat Summerall and John Madden on the call. The former placekicker and the retired Super Bowl-winning head coach began working together at CBS and, when they called their final game together in February 2002, did so while at Fox.

  How long did Madden and Summerall work together? Well, despite what it may have felt like at the time, they weren’t calling games when players still wore leather helmets and operated out of the Wing-T offense.

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  After stepping down from his position as the Oakland Raiders’ head coach in 1979, Madden joined CBS as a low-level color commentator. Things changed in 1981 when CBS promoted Madden and teamed him up with Summerall, a former NFL champion who, several years earlier, had made the rare transition from color commentator to play-by-play voice.

  From 1981 through 2002, Madden and Summerall were inseparable on Sunday afternoons. Summerall’s simple, deadpan style meshed perfectly with Madden’s booming voice and love of the telestrator.

  The duo called games together for 22 seasons, a streak that ended when New England Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri ended Super Bowl 36 in style. Although Summerall originally intended to retire following the 2001 season, he instead took a semi-reduced role in 2002 and primarily worked Dallas Cowboys home games, in large part because he lived in the area.

   

  Older fans will also remember Summerall, who died in 2013, lent his voice to the Madden NFL gaming series in the 1990s and early 2000s. Those who still have working copies of Madden NFL 2002 can still hear the legendary broadcasting team in action.