Mike Quick
{{Short description|American football player (born 1959)}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2021}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox NFL biography
| name = Mike Quick
| image = Mike Quick 020325.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption =
| number = 82
| position = Wide receiver
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|5|14}}
| birth_place = Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 2
| weight_lb = 190
| high_school = Richmond
(Rockingham, North Carolina)
| college = NC State
| draftyear = 1982
| draftround = 1
| draftpick = 20
| pastteams =
- Philadelphia Eagles ({{NFL Year|1982|1990}})
| highlights =
- 2× First-team All-Pro (1983, 1985)
- 5× Pro Bowl (1983–1987)
- NFL receiving yards leader (1983)
- Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame
;NFL record
| statlabel1 = Receptions
| statvalue1 = 363
| statlabel2 = Receiving yards
| statvalue2 = 6,464
| statlabel3 = Receiving touchdowns
| statvalue3 = 61
| pfr = QuicMi00
}}
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.
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.{{sfn|Simon|2020|p=24}} He played football at Richmond Senior High School.{{sfn|Simon|2020|p=125}}
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 twelve 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.
NFL career statistics
=Regular season=
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| rowspan="2"| Year
! rowspan="2"| Team ! colspan="2"| Games ! colspan="5"| Receiving | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Rec | Yds | Avg | Lng | TD | |
| 1982 | PHI
| 9 || 0 || 10 || 156 || 15.6 || 49 || 1 | ||||||
| 1983 | PHI
| 16 || 16 || 69 || style="background:#cfecec;"|1,409 || 20.4 || 83 || 13 | ||||||
| 1984 | PHI
| 14 || 14 || 61 || 1,052 || 17.2 || 90 || 9 | ||||||
| 1985 | PHI
| 16 || 15 || 73 || 1,247 || 17.1 || style="background:#cfecec;"|99 || 11 | ||||||
| 1986 | PHI
| 16 || 16 || 60 || 939 || 15.7 || 75 || 9 | ||||||
| 1987 | PHI
| 12 || 12 || 46 || 790 || 17.2 || 61 || 11 | ||||||
| 1988 | PHI
| 8 || 8 || 22 || 508 || 23.1 || 55 || 4 | ||||||
| 1989 | PHI
| 6 || 5 || 13 || 228 || 17.5 || 40 || 2 | ||||||
| 1990 | PHI
| 4 || 4 || 9 || 135 || 15.0 || 39 || 1 | ||||||
| colspan="2"| [https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/Q/QuicMi00.htm Career] | 101 | 90 | 363 | 6,464 | 17.8 | 99 | 61 |
Later career
Quick is currently a color commentator for Philadelphia Eagles radio broadcasts on WIP-FM 94.1 along with Merrill Reese, a position Quick has held since 1998. 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.{{cite web |url=https://6abc.com/the-goldbergs-philadelphia-eagles-mike-quick-merrill-reese/3139177/ |title='The Goldbergs' celebrate Philadelphia Eagles with special episode |access-date=April 29, 2020}}
References
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Works cited
- {{cite book| last = Simon| first = Bryant| title = The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives| publisher = The University of North Carolina Press| date = 2020| location =Chapel Hill| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=z6cJDgAAQBAJ| isbn = 9781469661377}}
External links
- {{Footballstats|nfl=Mike-Quick|pfr=QuicMi00}}
{{1982 NFL Draft}}
{{EaglesFirstPick}}
{{Eagles1982DraftPicks}}
{{NFL receiving yardage leaders}}
{{Eagles Honor Roll}}
{{Philadelphia Eagles}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quick, Mike}}
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