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All All. Sign In. Play trailer The Last Shift Both his father, Ed, Sr. A gifted athlete, the 6'1" O'Neill attended Ohio University on a football scholarship, but transferred after his sophomore year to Youngstown State University, where he played as a defensive lineman. In , he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but was cut in training camp.

Al Bundy was a former high-school football star constantly reminiscing about his glory days on the high school gridiron. After graduating, he became a social studies teacher at his alma mater, Ursuline High School, before fully committing to acting. He was a member of the company at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the top regional theaters in America.

After numerous supporting parts in movies and television, he was cast as the New York City detective Popeye Doyle in the television movie that was a pilot for a proposed television series. The television movie and O'Neill's performance got good reviews, but it was not picked up as a series. It ran 10 years, until June , and made O'Neill a star.