RIP Bernie Casey

[DanOregon]

Bernie Casey, Football Star Turned Actor, Poet and Painter, Dies at 78

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Bernie was one of the best at looking like a badass.

 

[Riptide]

Bernie was cool. RIP, Bernie.

 

[mpcincal]

I hope he took his theme music with him. No good hero should go to Heaven without it.

RIP. He was great at playing the cool, tough guy. He also had a good turn in a TV movie as Maurice Stokes, the NBA player who suffered a debilitating stroke in his prime.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Bernie Casey, Football Star Turned Actor, Poet and Painter, Dies at 78

Man he was great in that movie. Let us not speak of the sequels. Explaining why the nerds weren't the usual candidates for Tri-Lam membership--"After all. You're nerds."--is one of the funniest lines of the '80s.

Unrelated but interesting: Him and Jim Brown retiring from the NFL at their peaks offers us a reminder it's not just today's players recognizing the dangers of the game often don't outweigh the benefits.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

I can't find the NFL Films piece on him, but it was excellent. Also enjoyed him in Never Say Never Again

 

[Smallpotatoes]

"So Napoleon was a short, dead dude and Julius Caesar was a salad dressing dude?"

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

West Virginia native.

 

[Steak Snabler]

There was a time you could throw the word "black" into any movie title and have an instant audience.

 

[Liut]

Bernie was cool. RIP, Bernie.

+1. Thought he was pretty damn good in "Sharkey's Machine."

 

[Joe Williams]

+1. Thought he was pretty damn good in "Sharkey's Machine."