Saturday, January 06, 2007

Andy Del Gramatica?

I've always contended that Cuban-American acting great Andy Garcia moonlighted as a football player. Garcia's alter-ego for 16 years was former NFL placekicker & current Birmingham radio personality Al Del Greco. Upon seeing Del Greco's career winding up, the great thespian undertook the creation of a new identity, and in 1999, he created Martin Gramatica.


Can't you just see Gramatica assassinating Joey Zasa in The Godfather Part III? (click to enlarge)
Garcia juggled the three identities for two seasons, but retired the Del Greco character in 2000. Gramatica's future is questionable after the 'Boys performance this weekend. I can't wait to see who Andy's going to come up with next...
(Espn.com's "Page 2" contends that Gramatica is actually "The Great Gazoo" from The Flintstones.)