One time co-owner of the New York Knights is gone

Earlier this week, actor Robert Prosky died.

Robert Prosky, 77, a character actor with hundreds of film, TV and stage credits whose roles included an avuncular sergeant on the NBC police drama "Hill Street Blues" and a desperate real estate salesman in David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross," has died.

He played Sgt. Stan Jablonsky on Hill Street Blues. But -- in my world -- he was best known as The Judge, the co-owner of the New York Knights.

Here is how he introduced himself to Roy Hobbs in the movie:

Please pardon the absence of light. You see, as a youngster I was frightened of the dark and I used to wake up sobbing in it as if it was water...and I was drowning in it.

As you will observe, I have disciplined myself against that fear that now I much prefer a dark room.

With no college football this Saturday, I'll have to pop that movie in the LaserDisc at the trailer.