SOMETHING DIFFERENT: Celebrities who played football

[madpolecat]

http://www.parade.com/celebrity/slidesh ... tball.html

I saw this article on-line and started wondering... how many other celebs played football?

I would also add --

1. Patrick Swayze -- was a high school RB
2. Meat Loaf -- lineman, ya think?
3. John Malkovich

Post 'em if you know some.

[Bleeding Red]

Lee Majors (Fall Guy)- good football player in high school (Middlesboro KY)

I believe he even played college ball

[fuzzhead]

John Wayne 8)

[dilligaf]

bobby busche

[madpolecat]

Yes! Lee Majors!

[bdubya]

Burt Reynolds and Ron Simmons/Farrooq (WWE) both played at Florida State.

The Rock was a DL teammate of Warren Sapp at the U of Miami.

Brandon Hanning (Ohio U's infamous Rufus) played linebacker at Meigs.

[noreply66]

Mark Harman from NCIS played at UCLA and his dad won the Heisman at Michigan

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john wayne played for usc.

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bobby busche

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------dillgaf, you ever watch swamp people, dey sound just like the people from waterboy.

[dilligaf]

yea i watch it every week makes me wish i lived in the swamp killing them gators looks like fun lol

[javagt]

Believe it or not, but Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy) played for O.U. Bobcats back in the mid '60's......

[West_Sider]

Dean Cain (Superman from Lois & Clark) Played for Princeton.. Held NCAA record for ints in season with 12

Carl Weathers San Diego St.

[noreply66]

Javagt played for the Eastend Gang along with Father Francie

[javagt]

Bill Cosby - fullback for Temple ....

[javagt]

Seriously, Al Bundy was kicked off the O.U. football team by coach Bill Hess after 2 years..

He went on to acting school in Youngstown ...... noreply66 was an old man even then .....

[Auburntgrfan]

Alex Karras, did he play for Detroit or "da Bears", can't remember for sure,(Mongo, Blazing Saddles), Bubba Smith, Baltimore Colts? (CannonBall Run)
What about Lee Majors, and Michael Landon (A buckeye), Drew Carey maybe, he went to school in Cleveland did he play? The guy on the TV show Spencer for Hire is from Toronto Ohio I think, can't remember his name offhand. How about Dean Martin, Stuebenville and Clark Gable, Cadiz?

[noreply66]

Bill Cosby - fullback for Temple ....

I want to be the piece of class

[madpolecat]

I think that Michael Landon was a javelin thrower.

However, keeping with the LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE theme...

Merlin Olsen was a bad-arse defensive linemen, back in the Stone Age.

[1987chieftains]

NICK NOLTE PLAYED FOR USC IN THE EARLY 70S'

[madpolecat]

Tommy Lee Jones, Harvard, I believe.