O/T: RIP Mongo

[Deertick]

Alex Karras, dead at age 77.

http://www2.tbo.com/entertainment/en...-77-ar-527907/

[novakjr]

RIP Mongo.. Somehow, I still remember him best as the Sheriff in Porky's..

[drc]

I remember when he appeared on MASH-- as a big dumb guy.

I hated Webster, the show. One of those vomitous rated G family shows. Puke.

[Exhibitman]

"Mongo only pawn in game of life."

[Runscott]

Alex Karras was a funny guy. I didn't realize he was not in the HOF - that's a real shame, as he was one of the dominant defensive players of his era. As a kid you wanted to find a Karras card in your pack. You weren't so interested in some of the other guys who actually got in the Hall. Odd how that works.

I met Alex Karras in 1968 at a celebrity golf tournament in Texas. I was walking all over the place asking people where he was. I finally found two guys joking around with each other and I went up to Karras and asked, "Are you Alex Karras?" He said "No, but this guy is". He let the ruse go right up to the point where the other guy had my pen and paper in hand, about to sign. He engaged me in some conversation I don't remember, but I walked away liking him even more. Dick Butkus, on the other hand, yelled at me to get out of the clubhouse because I was dressed in swim-wear.

[Brian Van Horn]

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[cubsguy1969]

"Mongo only pawn in game of life."

He was great. Really smart and funny guy to always be playing big oafs. RIP.

[kkkkandp]

I found him to be quite a personable guy. In the early 1980s, we were seated next to him at breakfast in a restaurant in Williamstown, Massachusetts where his wife was performing in summer theater. He and his wife and daughter, who happened to be about the age of my older daughter at the time, struck up a conversation with us about football and the trials and tribulations of having little kids. He was very approachable and didn't mind chatting with us at all.