The Super Bowl is over, and another season has come and gone. But there’s still time to

The Super Bowl is over, and another season has come and gone. But there’s still time to reflect on the many football players who’ve branched out into movies. Here are five:

v O.J. Simpson: He played a security chief in “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and an astronaut in “Capricorn One” (1978). Probably his most famous film performances came in the “Naked Gun” trilogy, in which he played Frank Drebin’s best friend and partner, Nordberg.

v Jim Brown: One of the greatest running backs in football history, Brown played nine seasons with the Cleveland Browns, from 1957-65. He also was a revolutionary presence on the screen. In the 1969 Western “100 Rifles,” he did something previously unheard of: an interracial love scene (with Raquel Welch).

v Carl Weathers: Come on, he’s Apollo Creed from “Rocky”! And he was in “Predator.” Weathers started out as a star linebacker at San Diego State University before going on to an extremely brief pro career with the Oakland Raiders in the early ’70s.

v Terry Crews: He might be better-known now as an actor than as a football player. He’s done everything from dopey comedies (“Soul Plane,” “White Chicks”) to bombastic action movies (“Terminator Salvation,” “The Expendables”). He even has a bit part in the Oscar-nominated “Bridesmaids” as the boot-camp instructor whose classes Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph take in secret behind a tree.

v Alex Karras: You may know him best for his television work as Emmanuel Lewis’ adoptive dad, Mr. Papadapolis, on the feel-good ’80s sitcom “Webster.” But before that, Karras famously punched a horse as the fearsome but dimwitted Mongo in Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles” (1974). Karras played the sheriff in the classic teen-sex comedy “Porky’s” and a closeted gay bodyguard in “Victor/Victoria.”

“Smash” (10 p.m., nbc): It’s time to raise the curtain on “Smash,” a real show-stopper of a drama that chronicles the making of a Broadway musical and all the ego clashes, backbiting and diva doings that entails. Debra Messing, Anjelica Huston and former “American Idol” finalist Katharine McPhee headline a stellar cast.

“castle” (10:01 P.M., ABC: On “Castle,” Castle and Beckett (Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic) go back in time as a hard-boiled private eye and femme fatale trying to solve a cold case from 1947. Let’s hope the whole endeavor doesn’t send us into a big sleep.

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Country concert with Montgomery

Meadville, Pa.

Country-music star John Michael Montgomery will come to Allegheny College’s auditorium March 18 for two concerts: 1 and 6 p.m. Opening act will be NoMAD.

The concerts are fund-raisers for Meadville Fraternal Order of Police Colonel Lewis Walker Lodge 97.

Montgomery has 15 No. 1 hits and has sold 16 million albums. NoMAD, based in Pittsburgh, has opened for national artists Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Brooks and Dunn and Toby Keith. Admission is $22. For advance tickets, call 814-337-5650.