Wildcard weekend gameday thread 1-15/1-16-2022

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I was curious so I looked it up....Karras on the Pats has an Uncle named Alex Karras who played many years in the NFL. Alex also played Mongo in Blazing Saddles.
Alex Karras was a bad man. Great player. Also played the dad on Webster with Gil rl wife as the mom.

I liked him his short time on MNF too.
 

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I was curious so I looked it up....Karras on the Pats has an Uncle named Alex Karras who played many years in the NFL. Alex also played Mongo in Blazing Saddles.
Alex Karras was a helluva player for the Lions. Also worked MNF during some of its glory years.
 

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I was curious so I looked it up....Karras on the Pats has an Uncle named Alex Karras who played many years in the NFL. Alex also played Mongo in Blazing Saddles.
I think he was suspended a year for gambling ( maybe with Paul Hornug?).
 

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Our safeties are great tacklers and excel in run support but do not have the nose for the ball. Baker, J Thompson, D Thompson, Banjo, Washington, none of them does. Have not seen enough Wiggins to tell at this moment.
 

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I was curious so I looked it up....Karras on the Pats has an Uncle named Alex Karras who played many years in the NFL. Alex also played Mongo in Blazing Saddles.
 

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Highmark Stadium doesn’t have an heated field. That’s bad in an open stadium and cold weather.
 

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Alex Karras also played himself in “Paper Lion” which also starred Alan Alda as George Plimpton. It was based on a true story in which sportswriter Plimpton posed as a qb in camp with Detroit. The movie also features some real game footage including Cardinal Jim Hart getting injured in a game against the Lions. I saw it when I was a kid and a young Card fan. I gotta check and see if it’s streaming anywhere..Also, Alex Karras wrote a memoir called “even Big Guys Cry” about his life in football.
 
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