Mike Quick

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Mike Quick
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Position: Wide receiver
Personal information
Born: (1959-05-14) May 14, 1959 (age 64)
Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school: Richmond (Rockingham, North Carolina)
College: NC State
NFL Draft: 1982  / Round: 1 / Pick: 20
Career history
Career highlights and awards
NFL record
Career NFL statistics
Receptions:363
Receiving yards:6,464
Receiving touchdowns:61
Player stats at NFL.com  ·  PFR

Michael Anthony Quick (born May 14, 1959) is an American color commentator and former professional football player. He played as a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) with the Philadelphia Eagles for nine seasons, from 1982 to 1990. Quick played college football for the NC State Wolfpack.

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Early life

Quick's family initially lived in North Yard, an unincorporated section of Richmond County, North Carolina, before moving to a public housing project on the south side of Hamlet. [1] He played football at Richmond Senior High School. [2]

Playing career

A surprise first-round pick by the Eagles in the 1982 NFL Draft, Quick developed into a five-time Pro Bowler, selected consecutively from 1983 to 1987. He led the NFL in receiving yards in 1983 with 1,409 and finished second in 1985 with a total of 1,247. On November 10, 1985, Mike Quick caught a 99-yard touchdown pass from Ron Jaworski in overtime (an Eagles team record, and tied with eleven other QB-WR combos as an NFL record), as the Eagles beat the Atlanta Falcons in the game. He retired because of severe patella tendinitis.

Later career

Quick is currently a color commentator for Philadelphia Eagles radio broadcasts on WIP-FM 94.1 along with Merrill Reese. He resides in Marlton, New Jersey.

Quick appears as Coach Ike Fast, an assistant football coach, at fictional William Penn Academy in Jenkintown, PA, in Season 5, Episode 14, of the ABC-TV sitcom The Goldbergs . The episode originally aired on February 28, 2018, in honor of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl LII 41–33 win over the New England Patriots. [3]

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  1. Simon 2020, p. 24.
  2. Simon 2020, p. 125.
  3. "'The Goldbergs' celebrate Philadelphia Eagles with special episode" . Retrieved April 29, 2020.

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