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FILE - In this July 24, 2000, file photo, Pat Summerall, lead play-by-play announcer for the NFL on Fox Sports, announces his retirement during a news conference in the Century City section of Los Angeles. Summerall transitioned from a successful playing career to the booth in the 1960s and became the voice of the NFL. He started off as an analyst and was part of the first Super Bowl. He shifted to a play-by-play role in 1974 at CBS and that is where he really shined. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

A look at iconic announcers in NFL history

By JOSH DUBOW - Associated Press

This Dec. 3, 1993 photo provided by CBS Sports shows Sandy Grossman, who directed a record 10 Super Bowl broadcasts and spent more than two decades in the TV truck working with announcers Pat Summerall and John Madden. Grossman died Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 78. &quot;His amazing directorial talents on the NFL truly distinguished him as one of the great directors in the history of sports television,&quot; CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus said. (AP Photo/CBS Sports, Roman Iwasiwka) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES; NO ARCHIVE; NORTH AMERICAN USE ONLY

Sandy Grossman, acclaimed sports TV director, dies

By RACHEL COHEN - Associated Press

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this March 1958 file photo, St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, with bat in hand, poses for a photo during spring training baseball in Florida. Musial, one of baseball's greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the Cardinals for more than two decades, died Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. He was 92. (AP Photo/File)

Earl Weaver, Stan Musial among those the world of sports lost in 2013

By Fred Lief - Associated Press

Summerall remembered as ‘voice of the NFL’

By DAVID WARREN - Associated Press

Super voice gone: Pat Summerall dead at 82

By STEPHEN HAWKINS - Associated Press

**FILE** Pat Summerall and John Madden in the FOX broadcast booth before the NFC divisional playoff in this Jan. 20, 2002 photo in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Pat Summerall dies: NFL broadcaster was 82

By Stephen Hawkins - Associated Press

Super voice gone: Pat Summerall dead at 82

By STEPHEN HAWKINS - Associated Press

Pat Summerall, left, and John Madden stand in the booth at Louisiana Superdome before the NFL Super Bowl XXXVI football game in New Orleans, Feb. 3, 2002. Fox Sports spokesman Dan Bell said Tuesday, April 16, 2013, that Summerall, the NFL player-turned-broadcaster whose deep, resonant voice called games for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 82. (Associated Press)

Pat Summerall, ‘spirit of the NFL,’ dies at 82

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