The Funniest Athlete Cameos In Movie History

Alex Karras in Blazing Saddles

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Four years after the final season of his NFL career, the four-time All-Pro defensive tackle played Mongo, the horse-punching, door-demolishing, piano-pushing villain of Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” with a limited vocabulary. “If you shoot him, you’d just make him mad,” Gene Wilder’s character warns Cleavon Little’s Sheriff Bart of Mongo.

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