Merlin Olsen was an American defensive tackle who spent his entire fifteen-year professional football career with the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. He was chosen for the Pro Bowl fourteen times, every year but his last, a total matched or exceeded only by Bruce Matthews, Tony Gonzalez, Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. In 1961 he received the Outland Trophy as the best college lineman, and he is a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. After football he became an actor, playing the farmer Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie, and a football commentator.
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