Did You Know?
Let’s start with this fact: Ed O’Neill (Jay Pritchett) was almost a football player. In 1969, he was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers as an outside linebacker. But he didn’t go on to play; he was released before the regular season began. He was cut in training camp.
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And here’s another one about Ed O’Neill: He’s been reading the same prop newspaper for 20 years! The newspaper he read as Al Bundy in Married with Children is the same as the one Jay reads in the show.
Next, an on-screen relationship draws from one in real life. Wanna guess which one?