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The first time Pat Summerall met Tom Brookshier, at Franklin Field, it was a violent greeting. “He just about split my face mask away from my helmet,” Summerall said yesterday, eulogizing his friend and longtime broadcast partner at a memorial service at the Ardmore Presbyterian Church. Brookshier, 78, died Jan. 29 after a battle with cancer. At a memorial service filled with local and national sports luminaries, eulogies were given for the former Eagles star defensive back by his friends Summerall, Dick Vermeil, Jack Whitaker, and Billy Cunningham, as well as Brookshier’s daughter Betsy. “He was the best man at our wedding, and the best man I ever knew,” Summerall said. No less an …

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Ex-Eagle Tom Brookshier laid to rest

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