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  1. 03-11-2010 12:01 PM #1
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    Default Merli Olsen dead at age 69

    Just reported on Fox...

    Football great and Actor, Merlin Olsen has died... He was diagnosed with Mesothelioma last year.


    Rest In Peace.

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    Never heard of him...but it's always sad when cancer takes a life.

    Mesothelioma is the most common form of cancer, if I remember correctly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanjoachim View Post
    Never heard of him...but it's always sad when cancer takes a life.

    Mesothelioma is the most common form of cancer, if I remember correctly.
    He was a pro football player in the 70's, but really got famous in the 80's for his commercials promoting FTD.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ryanjoachim View Post
    Mesothelioma is the most common form of cancer, if I remember correctly.
    It's rare and almost always the result of exposure to asbestos- which is why you hear about it so much.

    Most common is skin (Nonmelanoma, almost no one dies of this) followed by lung, then prostate & breast are about the same.
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    Ah, my bad. I must have fallen for the media hype then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Huck344 View Post
    He was a pro football player in the 70's, but really got famous in the 80's for his commercials promoting FTD.

    You forgot his decade-long work on "Little House on the Prairie"...
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    Olsen was rookie of the year for the Rams in 1962 and is still the Rams' all-time leader in career tackles with 915. He was named to 14 consecutive Pro Bowls, a string that started his rookie year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nooshinjohn View Post
    You forgot his decade-long work on "Little House on the Prairie"...
    I never watched the show. . . I had no idea he was on that.
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    Default One of the Fearsome Foursome and a football great...

    Quote Originally Posted by Huck344 View Post
    He was a pro football player in the 70's, but really got famous in the 80's for his commercials promoting FTD.
    Actually it was his fame in football that opened all the other doors...he will always be known as one of the Fearsome Foursome, a football Hall of Famer, and a football great above all else.The younger posters might have never had a chance to have seen him at his real best....tackling, the man was a monster on the line...
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    I lived down the street from him for many years. When I was 15, he once took hold of the front of my shirt & lifted me over his head - with one arm. I was impressed! He was a very good man. Soft spoken, mannerly and just all around good guy.
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    Rest in peace Merlin
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    Quote Originally Posted by NotaSuv View Post
    Actually it was his fame in football that opened all the other doors...he will always be known as one of the Fearsome Foursome, a football Hall of Famer, and a football great above all else.The younger posters might have never had a chance to have seen him at his real best....tackling, the man was a monster on the line...
    Great Post. Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, Lamar Lundy, Rosy Grier,made up the "Fearsome Foursome" under George Allen. Great years for the LA Rams, a championship never coming to fruition, sadly. A gentle giant, a Hall of Famer in every sense of the word, and really, not that bad of an actor. R.I.P. Merlin, we need more like you.



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