Several of those names are familiar to those of us who aren't football fans (though even non-fans could hardly escape hearing those names!). I think Alex Karras probably was the most successful as an actor, though many of them took the plunge, didn't they? Joe Namath, was he an actor, or an anomaly?

Wasn't Merlin Olsen the second host for a while on that old Mutual of Omaha animal program? Or am I confusing him with someone else?

SRS