Alex Karras played defense for the Detroit Lions in the 1960s. He turned to acting when he retired his cleats, landing a number of character roles... Football Player-Turned-Actor Alex Karras Dies ...

(Reuters) - Alex Karras, the Detroit Lions football star with the puckish personality who turned to acting and won legions of fans for punching out a horse in the movie "Blazing Saddles," died on ...

Long before becoming known as an actor who punched out a horse while playing Mongo in the satirical western “Blazing Saddles,” Alex Karras was a Detroit Lion who got into a lot of trouble off the ...

Alex Karras became the best known member of a football-playing family, with a career as a dominant defensive lineman in the National Football League, followed by an acting career that included notable ...

News of four Detroit Lions suspended by the NFL for violating the league's policy on gambling reminds football fans of a similar circumstance, involving the same team, exactly 60 years ago. While ...

(AP) Alex Karras was one of the NFL’s most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, a player who hounded quarterbacks and bulled past opposing linemen. And yet, to many people he will always be ...

(AP) Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand says the franchise is deeply saddened to learn of Alex Karras’ condition. The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News reported Monday that the former All-Pro ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The show begins with retired football player George Papadopolis and socialite wife Katherine Calder-Young (played by Alex Karras ...

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 ...