Well I have to agree with this article that Pro Football used to be like Pro Wrestling once and not the slick, multi-billion dollar spectacle it is now. One of the funniest guys from that era Art Donovan died recently and that transition is complete.
When Kusen died, Artie was the executor of his will. This wasn't
unusual; all of the Colts -- Fatso (Artie), Mumbles (kicker Steve
Myhra), Boulevard (tackle Jim Parker, because of the size of his butt,)
Big Daddy (the imposing Eugene Lipscomb), Spats (the natty Lenny Moore)
-- would regularly accept invitations from fans in the neighborhoods to
kids' birthday parties and cookouts. It was Baltimore. It was family.
I used to watch him when he was on ESPN doing NFL commercials years ago. He used to play a kind of court jester character that was just hilarious. He would do a double-take where his jowls would wobble and the other people on those commercials would poke fun at him. This is a video of him on Letterman from the 80s that got me laughing out loud. He was a real artifact from a bygone era of NFL History.
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