We are in need of someone to take over the maintenance of the MMB. Yosef has done it for a long time, and we are grateful for all he has done, but life happens and he no longer has the time to devote to its upkeep. If anyone here is interested in helping to keep the board running, please let me know via DM.
Alex Karras R.I.P
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Alex Karras R.I.P
The mighty Mongo has fallen. Heck of a football player and had a nice acting career after. Blazing Saddles was one of my all-time favorites which I saw for the first time with the ASU soccer team on a road trip in Clemson. The dreaded Mongo might have just been a "pawn in game of life," but who can forget him riding into Rock Ridge on that ox or bull or whatever that ugly thing was and knocking out the horse with one punch?
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Re: Alex Karras R.I.P
Big Alex was an All-Pro lineman for the Detroit Lions in the mid-60s and was a teammate of former Mountaineer all-American Larry Hand in Detroit for about 8 seasons.
Proud triple-degree App grad--Classes of '66, '70 and '81.
If it happens to the Apps, it happens to me!
If it happens to the Apps, it happens to me!
Re: Alex Karras R.I.P
I remember watching Blazing Saddles at a theater in Raleigh next to the state campus when it came out.Mel Brooks found the perfect caracters in that movie including Alex.Never laughed harder with a theater full of college kids half pickled. 
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Re: Alex Karras R.I.P
As an absolute Packer fan in the 50s and 60s I didn't like anyone else - those guys were a totally different breed from today's NFL players - Hard and tough to their very core - I remember my Dad yelling at the TV when they would announce Hand from App a lay shun State - "it's APP - A - LATCH - UN" --- we were in WV and he had no connection to ASU - it would just make him mad that they announcers didn't know how to pronounce not just the school but the entire region ---asu1978 wrote:I remember watching Blazing Saddles at a theater in Raleigh next to the state campus when it came out.Mel Brooks found the perfect caracters in that movie including Alex.Never laughed harder with a theater full of college kids half pickled.
And Blazing Saddles was the first full-out laugh your ass-off movie I remember - still one of the funniest every made - I could quote you many lines right now but I got to go back to the ranch and get a sheetload of quarters ---
"Montani Semper Liberi"
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Re: Alex Karras R.I.P
As an absolute Packer fan in the 50s and 60s I didn't like anyone else - those guys were a totally different breed from today's NFL players - Hard and tough to their very core - I remember my Dad yelling at the TV when they would announce Hand from App a lay shun State - "it's APP - A - LATCH - UN" --- we were in WV and he had no connection to ASU - it would just make him mad that they announcers didn't know how to pronounce not just the school but the entire region ---asu1978 wrote:I remember watching Blazing Saddles at a theater in Raleigh next to the state campus when it came out.Mel Brooks found the perfect caracters in that movie including Alex.Never laughed harder with a theater full of college kids half pickled.
And Blazing Saddles was the first full-out laugh your ass-off movie I remember - still one of the funniest every made - I could quote you many lines right now but I got to go back to the ranch and get a sheetload of quarters ---
"Montani Semper Liberi"
The Dude Abides!!!
The Dude Abides!!!