Outside of Sports Broadcasting
Summerall provided voiceover sponsorship credits for CBS' Masters telecasts, and currently provides voiceovers for game coverage on NFL Network. He has also provided game commentary for the Golden Tee Golf video game series.
For many years Summerall has been a commercial spokesperson for True Value. Ironically, his long-time broadcast partner Madden was the spokesperson for Ace Hardware, True Value's main competitor in the independent hardware store market. Summerall has served as the longtime radio spokesman for Dux Beds, a Swedish mattress maker, and their Duxiana stores.
Summerall was also associated with a production company in Dallas, Texas, from about the year 1998 to 2005. It was called Pat Summerall Productions. He was featured and hosted different production shows such as, Summerall Success Stories and Champions of Industry. These qualified production segments would air on the Fox News Channel and later, CNN Headline News. During the mid-1990s, Summerall hosted the "Summerall-Aikman" Cowboys report with quarterback Troy Aikman. Currently, Summerall serves as the host of Sports Stars of Tomorrow and Future Phenoms, two nationally syndicated high school sports shows based out of Fort Worth, Texas.
Summerall was name-checked on The Simpsons in the 2007 episode "Springfield Up", where his caricature and name appear on the cover of a book held by Homer entitled "Smut Yuks." Summerall and then-partner Madden also appeared in (and lent their voices to) the 1999 Simpsons episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday", which premiered following the duo's broadcast of Super Bowl XXXIII on FOX.
Summerall also provided commentary, alongside Madden, on Cartoon Network's annual Super Bowl parodies, The Big Game, from 1998 through 2001.
Summerall appeared in the music video for Forever the Sickest Kids' 2010 single "She Likes (Bittersweet Love)".
Summerall also recently preached a sermon at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Ft. Worth, Texas. He also has been a featured speaker at the Men's Gridiron Conference in Tuscaloosa, AL, where he related his giving his life to Christ during his stay at the Betty Ford clinic during his recovery from alcoholism.
Summerall makes his home in Southlake, Texas, where he has lived for 14 years.
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