Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Star Athletes Once

Ed O’Neill

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Before starring as a self-important dad on “Married with Children” then “Modern Family,” O’Neill played football at Ohio University then Youngstown State. The Steelers signed him as an undrafted free agent in 1969, but cut him after two weeks of training camp. With Joe Greene and L.C. Greenwood in the fold, O’Neill tried to make the switch from the defensive line to outside linebacker. “[Training camp] actually went pretty good. … I actually enjoyed it, and my problem was that I had never played that position before,” he told Rich Eisen in 2016. “So I was trying to learn it and make the team at the same time.”

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