Tom (Brookie) Brookshier, who in nine years with the Philadelphia Eagles (1952-61) was twice named an All-Pro defensive back (1959. 1960), then later broadcast National Football League games for CBS, teaming up with Pat Summerall for …
TOM BROOKSHIER was the autumn Rich Ashburn. Their career paths were eerily similar. Whitey helped the Whiz Kids win the 1950 pennant. Brookie helped the 1960 Eagles upset Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers for the NFL title.
Among those who gathered at the First Presbyterian Church in Ardmore to honor Tom Brookshier were Billy Cunningham (left), hugging a friend, and Hall of Fame Eagles Chuck Bednarik (right) and Tommy McDonald (below). …
NFL: Tom Brookshier, ex-CBS analyst and Philadelphia Eagles star, dies at 78. AP Tom Brookshier, an NFL analyst for CBS for more than two decades after an All-Pro career at defensive back for the Philadelphia Eagles, has died. …
Passing: Tom Brookshier, Eagles Star and Broadcaster (Philadelphia Inquirer). From The Philadelphia Inquirer: He was an all-pro on the last Eagles team to win an NFL championship, in 1960, and was part of CBS’s top NFL broadcast team …
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.
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.
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 …
EL PASO — Tom Brookshier, former star athlete at Roswell High School, had that special on-air personality … the kind that made you comfortable and made you smile.
Ex-Eagle Tom Brookshier laid to rest | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/09/2010. Philadelphia Inquirer Brookshier told Cunningham, in a seven-game playoff series at the time, that he just wanted to make sure Cunningham was all right. …
