We have featured, in past posts, the football cards of former Monday Night Football analysts, including Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Dan Dierdorf. With another MNF game coming up tonight, here is the 1966 Philadelphia card of former Detroit Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras, who also worked on the Monday Night telecasts. Karras had an outstanding NFL career with the Lions, and despite being suspended for the entire 1963 season, along with Paul Hornung, for gambling, was a 4-time Pro Bowler who was also elected to the All Decade team for the 1960s. While he was still playing, Karras had a lead role in the movie Paper Lion, the story of writer George Plimpton’s short-lived attempt to try out with the Lions, which led to him going into acting after his football days were over. He worked on MNF alongside Gifford and Howard Cosell for 3 seasons, and was successful as a television actor, in the series Webster, and in movies, most notably Victor/Victoria and Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles.
