Alexander George Karras was an American football player, professional wrestler, sportscaster, and actor.
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Alexander George Karras was an American football player, professional wrestler, sportscaster, and actor.
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Alex Karras was a four-time Pro Bowl player with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, where he played from 1958 to 1970.
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Alex Karras starred as George Papadopolis, the adoptive father of Webster Long, in the ABC sitcom Webster alongside his wife Susan Clark.
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Alex Karras excelled in numerous other sports in high school, including baseball, track, wrestling, and basketball.
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Alex Karras struggled in the beginning at Iowa, with classwork, homesickness, and with his coach, Forest Evashevski.
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Alex Karras was a pledge at Sigma Nu fraternity during his first year in school.
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Alex Karras did not earn a football letter for the 1955 season.
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Alex Karras went to summer classes, lost the excess weight, and rejoined the football team, but a strained relationship resurfaced.
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The Hawkeyes then clinched the Big Ten title and Iowa's first-ever Rose Bowl berth by defeating Ohio State Alex Karras sealed the game with a sack on the game's final play.
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Alex Karras helped the Hawkeyes win the Rose Bowl over Oregon State, He was a first-team All-American in 1956.
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Alex Karras spent the summer of 1957 with an American track team of Greek descent.
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Alex Karras participated in the shot put, throwing a respectable 52 feet .
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Alex Karras was a great football player, but he didn't really like offense and, in those days, you had to go both ways.
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Alex Karras was the tenth selection of the 1958 NFL draft, taken by the Detroit Lions.
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Alex Karras himself admitted he was frequently heavily hung over as a result of late night bar-hopping.
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Layne was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers early in the 1958 season and Alex Karras eventually assumed a veteran leadership position himself.
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Alex Karras made the Pro Bowl four times, and the Hall of Fame named him a member of the 1960s All-Decade team.
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Alex Karras himself was under suspension and thus absent during Plimpton's training camp tenure with the Lions, making him a constant topic of tall-tale discussion among his past teammates.
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Alex Karras soon began acting on a full-time basis, playing a Tennessee boy turned Olympic weightlifter named Hugh Ray Feather in 1973's The 500 Pound Jerk.
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Alex Karras played a hulking villain who menaced Clint Walker in the ABC TV film Hardcase.
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Alex Karras served three years in that role until leaving after the 1976 season, with his most memorable comment coming in his first game, when he joked that bald Oakland Raiders lineman Otis Sistrunk, who never attended college, was from "the University of Mars", after seeing steam coming off his head.
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In 1973, Alex Karras made several cameo appearances on the January 8 broadcast of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
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Alex Karras returned to acting with roles that included playing Sheriff Wallace in Porky's, and as western settler Hans Brumbaugh in Centennial.
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Alex Karras played James Garner's closeted gay bodyguard in the 1982 Blake Edwards film Victor Victoria.
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Alex Karras played a darker role as Hank Sully, the right-hand man of villain Jake Wise in the 1984 film, Against All Odds.
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Alex Karras signed on to play the character "Super Jock" in commercials for a line of sports action toys named Super Jock, produced by Schaper .
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Alex Karras was known for his humorous endorsement of La-Z-Boy recliners, in an ad campaign which featured NFL greats such as Miami Dolphins Coach Don Shula, and New York Jets legend Joe Namath.
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Alex Karras subsequently wrote a memoir, Even Big Guys Cry, and a novel, Tuesday Night Football .
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Alex Karras was joined in the honor by Nile Kinnick, Chuck Long, and Tim Dwight.
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Alex Karras worked briefly as a football coach in 2007 and 2008.
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Alex Karras worked for the SIL as an assistant coach to Bob Lombardi.
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Alex Karras owned an ice cream parlor in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, called The Cow.
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