Pat Summerall stood in the front row at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, on Easter Sunday, next to his wife Cheri, as the congregation sang "The Old Rugged Cross."
"I looked over there at Pat, and big tears were streaming down his face," Prestonwood Pastor Jack Graham said. "Of all the times I've watched him on television, of all the times I've heard his voice, my greatest memory is going to be remembering Pat with his eyes lifted up to heaven, tears soaking his face, singing 'The Old Rugged Cross.'"
Summerall, the famed NFL broadcaster, died April 16 in Dallas of cardiac arrest at age 82. He had been in Zale Lipshy Hospital after surgery for a broken hip....