I will sometimes says to one of the boys, "His Dad won the Heisman playing at Michigan." Of course, Mark Harmon himself played ball at UCLA, which reminds me that Ed Marinaro played college ball at Syracuse and in the NFL as well with the Vikings before going into acting. Sometime, we need a list of football players who went into Hollywood (John Matusak, Fred Dryer, Burt Reynolds, OJ Simpson, John Wayne, and so on).
Also, I didn't realize Curly Lambeau had a son who played ball. I wonder if Cliff Christl, the historian for the Packers, has anything else on Don Lambeau.
Green Bay didn't think so.
When I think of old Raiders from Wisconsin, I immediately think of Jim Otto and Dave Casper.
to Pat Sullivan of Auburn.
Right state, wrong college.
Story from Tony Kornheiser's piece "Off Broadway Joe"
One might Namath and Ed Marinaro, who was with the Jets then, are sitting in a New York bar, and it's well into the shank of the evening, and Namath is preparing to go home with a woman who is not, to be kind, a drop-dead beauty.
Marinaro: "Joe, you were my idol, all through college, and I just can't imagine you leaving a bar with anything less than a 10. And, to be honest, Joe, this woman, even on her best nights, is a six."
Namath: "Eddie, it's three in the morning, and Miss America just ain't coming in."
Olson always has an audience with me.
Keep it comin’, my friend.