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Title: Alex Karras is Ill
Post by: guido911 on October 09, 2012, 05:05:17 PM
Read he is in hospice with renal failure.

(http://alioneye.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mongo2-300x185.jpg)
Title: Re: Alex Karras is Ill
Post by: GG on October 09, 2012, 06:49:50 PM
How sad, I always enjoyed seeing him perform.   
Title: Re: Alex Karras is Ill
Post by: Townsend on October 10, 2012, 10:03:18 AM
He's passed.

Wasn't a Webster fan but Blazing Saddles is on my top 10.
Title: Re: Alex Karras is Ill
Post by: Hoss on October 10, 2012, 10:08:31 AM
Mongo parks in the red zone...great stuff.

Title: Re: Alex Karras is Ill
Post by: patric on October 10, 2012, 11:40:35 AM
Quote from: Hoss on October 10, 2012, 10:08:31 AM
Mongo parks in the red zone...great stuff.


Indeed.  Deserves a longer clip:

Title: Re: Alex Karras is Ill
Post by: guido911 on October 10, 2012, 12:31:41 PM
I thought Patric would love the Mongo punching the horse since it took up an accusation of breaking the law.
Title: Re: RIP Alex Karras
Post by: Teatownclown on October 10, 2012, 01:30:35 PM
A farewell telegram for Mongo:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alex-karras-20121011%2c0%2c2800870.story

Let's all hold our buttocks very tight, in his memory.