Celebrity Secret Pasts: A-Listers You Won’t Believe Were High School Football Stars
Ed Asner
Most people viewed the late Ed Asner as an older man. How do we even reconcile that image with that of him being a star athlete in his younger days? Asner played high school football and organized a basketball team that toured much of Europe.
But despite his sporting success, Asner found his true calling as an actor, going on to play iconic characters like Lou Grant on both “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spin-off “Lou Grant.”
You must be logged in to post a comment Login