HOF'er Merlin Olsen

• september63

  

  has died today at 69. What was that TV show he used to be on?
• devil1197

  Little House on the Prairie.
• september63

  

  Father Murphy was a short lived show he starred in. It was produced by Michael Landon.
• Non

  

  I liked his voice as an analyst.
  
  Enberg and Olsen was a great team during the 80s.
• vball10set

  RIP--charter member of the Rams' Fearsome Foursome
• ytownfootball

  

  He was a spokesman for FTD (flowers wire service) also.
• jhay78

  

  Non wrote: I liked his voice as an analyst.
  
  Enberg and Olsen was a great team during the 80s.

  Agreed.
  
  My kids will always remember him as Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie.
  
  Not old enough to have seen him play, but remember him as a decent analyst.
• thavoice

  As a kid I can still hear his voice calling NFL gamses....
• Speedofsand

  

  He was great on and off the field. RIP
  
  
  Starting in the 1960s the Rams fielded one of the most famous of the front fours of that or any other time, the “Fearsome Foursome” of Jones, Olsen, Roosevelt Grier and Lamar Lundy.
• Speedofsand

  

  http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/2010/1/27/a-field-for-merlin/
  
  01/27/2010
  
  USU’s seemingly immortal, larger-than-life figure, his trademark beard now gray and his body shrinking as concessions to age and illness, walked slowly to the middle of the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum court Dec. 5 as a sellout crowd of 10,270 stood and cheered.
  
  The scene was both reassuring and stunning, celebratory and sobering, amid the realization that there was a reason the legendary Aggie football player was being honored during a basketball game. His legacy will include the naming of Merlin Olsen Field at Romney Stadium, a statue on the facility’s southeast plaza and a scholarship endowment.
  
  “I share this special honor with great coaches and teammates,” Olsen said in a USU news release. “Remembering those days brings to mind some of the happiest and most productive days of my life.”
  
  Olsen, 69, is being treated for a form of cancer. Because of the illness, USU President Stan Albrecht acknowledged during a news conference, there was “some urgency” for the school and Olsen’s family to stage the observance, with the official dedication of the field and statue actually scheduled to take place during the 2010 football season.
• Darkon

  

  Sad to hear.
  Remember him playing for the Rams My favorite team back then.
• cat_lover

  Good player. Good announcer. Good man.
• royal_k

  

  He and Enberg really were a great team to listen to. And he was a hell of a football player as well as a great person.