2. Blazing Saddles: Mongo conferred Karras cult-comedy status. The Mel Brooks character also brought the by-then-retired NFL-er some grief. "Little old ladies wrote me from all over after the picture came out," he said in 1975. "They said, 'How could you hit a poor dumb beast?'" For the record, he didn't—he didn't really punch the horse. In a statement today, Brooks said, "Alex Karras was a great pleasure to work with. There was a lot of him and all of it was gentle, sweet, and surprisingly talented. I will miss him."
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