News of Alex Karras' kidney failure was in the Detroit papers yesterday; before I got a chance to do a pre-obit, he would up dying on me. He was a bit ahead of my time as a Lions lineman famous for terrorizing Bart Starr in the 1962 Thanksgiving day game that handed the Packers their only loss of that year.
To non-football fans, he'd be noted as an actor, playing Webster's adopted dad and playing Mongo in Blazing Saddles. Sad to see him go; if you don't get the title, watch the clip.
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