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Alex Karras, Former NFL Lineman, Actor, Dies At 77

Associated Press | by Larry Lage

DETROIT (AP) — Alex Karras, the rugged lineman who anchored the Detroit Lions’ defense in the 1960s, then went on to an acting career in which he starred in the sitcom “Webster” and famously punched a horse in the 1974 comedy “Blazing Saddles,” died Wednesday. He was 77. Karras, who had recently suffered kidney failure, […]