# Art Donovan RIP

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 6, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-donovan-rip/665465 "2013-08-06T03:08:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-donovan-rip/665465/1 "2013-08-06T03:08:32Z")

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Over the weekend, [Pro Football HOFer and talk show raconteur Art Donovan passed away at age 88](http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000226150/article/art-donovan-pro-football-hall-of-famer-dies-at-88).

Donovan played for 12 seasons most of which were with the Baltimore Colts. He was a member of the 1958 Colts who defeated the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game that’s been dubbed “The Greatest Game Ever Played.”

I wasn’t around when Donovan played so I got to know him from his second career during the 1980s and 90s when he told stories of his playing days with David Letterman and Johnny Carson.

RIP “Fatso”.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-donovan-rip/665465/2 "2013-08-06T03:12:45Z")

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I remember the SOB(spoken with fondness). My Washington Redskins always lost to those guys. But I knew them.

I probably knew the Colts names better than all the 'skins, 🙂

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**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-donovan-rip/665465/3 "2014-04-13T03:54:40Z")

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Found this thread while searching for posts on the show _Ray Donovan_, but as a guy born in Baltimore:

RIP Art. He was a local legend.

Hopefully, only the thread is a zombie and not Art…Fatso wants to eat your brains…

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-donovan-rip/665465/4 "2014-04-14T22:48:08Z")

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I only knew him from his great interviews on NFL films. The guy was hilarious. Was bummed out when the news broke last summer.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/art-donovan-rip/665465/5 "2014-04-15T13:43:11Z")

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I always thought he was a hoot when he showed up on Letterman. Always very engaging, funny in that wacky way, and always kept Letterman going. At some point Vince McMahon thought letting him guest announce at a PPV in Baltimore would be a good idea. Unfortunately, he was mostly confused, lost, and didn’t know any of the wrestlers participating.