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If you're a certain age, you remember the sitcom "Webster," and it almost doesn't matter what age you are, you've heard of the cult classic comedy movie "Blazing Saddles". What do both have in common? Actor Alex Karras.
And New England Patriots rookie Ted Karras, a sixth-round pick out of Illinois, has a tie to both, since Alex was his great uncle.
When he met with New England media for the first time last week, Karras, a 6-foot-3, 307 pound was asked about his uncle's performances, and admitted to not watching much of the TV show that ran for six seasons in the mid-1980s and showed Alex as basically a teddy bear.