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Merlin Olsen: The Schizophrenic Football Player

Article By on 13th March, 2010

... Olsen always fascinated me. I considered him borderline schizophrenic.

On the football field, Olsen was part of the Los Angeles Rams’ Fearsome Foursome defensive line that swallowed ball carriers whole. He, Lamar Lundy, Deacon Jones, and Rosey Grier gave no quarter on Sunday afternoons. You’d be better off running through a fire wearing a suit soaked with gasoline.

Olsen, like his line brethren, was mean, nasty, unforgiving, snarling, and angry.

But it was what he did, not what he was.

Jones, on the other hand, reveled in hi...

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