Football legend Alex Karras died at his home in the Hollywood Hills. The 77- year-old defensive lineman played for the Detroit Lions in the 1960s. The Gary Ind., native and Emerson High School ...

DETROIT -- Alex Karras was a man of many roles. Fearsome NFL defensive lineman. Lovable TV dad. Hilarious big-screen cowboy. And in the end, a dementia victim who blamed the NFL for his illness along ...

DETROIT - Alex Karras was a man of many roles. Fearsome NFL defensive lineman. Lovable TV dad. Hilarious big-screen cowboy. And in the end, a dementia victim who blamed the NFL for his illness along ...

(AP) Alex Karras was one of the NFL’s most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, a player who hounded quarterbacks and bulled past opposing linemen. And yet, to many people he will always be ...

Alex Karras, an NFL star-turned-TV actor in the '80s, died Wednesday in Los Angeles, CNN reports. He was 77 "After a heroic fight with kidney disease, heart disease, dementia and for the last two ...

A long-time friend of former Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras said Karras has suffered kidney failure and has only a few days to live, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News reported Monday. Karras ...

To a generation of TV and film fans, Alex Karras will forever be the loving adoptive dad on the 1980s sitcom "Webster" or the big guy who punched a horse in 1974's "Blazing Saddles." Before his acting ...