"Big deal", Karras said amiably on TV.
But the world should know that for us kids growing up in metropolitan Detroit in his era; Alex Karras was football. In the Black and Blue Division of the sixties, Detroit Lions won zero NFL championships—12 teams didn't make the "playoffs", but at home or on the road opponents got an ass-kicking with that line spearheaded by Mr. Karras.
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