Mark Pattison (American football)

Mark Pattison
No. 83, 89, 88
Position: Wide receiver
Personal information
Born: (1961-12-13) December 13, 1961
Seattle, Washington
Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight: 190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
College: Washington
NFL Draft: 1985 / Round: 7 / Pick: 188
Career history
Career NFL statistics
Receptions: 12
Receiving Yards: 152
Touchdowns: 0
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at PFR

Mark Pattison (born December 13, 1961) is a former American football wide receiver who played four seasons in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, and New Orleans Saints. He played college football at the University of Washington and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1985 NFL Draft.

High school

Pattison attended Roosevelt High School in Seattle, WA from 1976-1980 where he became an All American as a wide receiver his junior year and All American quarterback his senior year. Both junior and senior years, he was the player of the year voted on by the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper. Pattison was elected to the Roosevelt Hall of Fame in 2004 and is one of 5 football players inducted since 1922.

College

Pattison was a 3-year letterman and played from 1980-1985 under Coach Don James.

On May 10, 2016, Pattison and the rest of the 1984 Husky Football team were inducted into the Class of 2016 Husky Hall of Fame.[1]

After football

Following his NFL career, Pattison took up mountain climbing. In 2013, he began a goal to climb The Seven Summits on 7 continents. To date, Mark's successful ascents include Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) in 2013 (19,333'),[2] Mount Elbrus (Russia) in 2014 (18,666'), Mount Kosciuszko (Australia) in 2015 (7,310'), and Mount Aconcagua (Argentina) in February, 2016 (23,000'). Pattison would become one of only about 350 people who have climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents [3] and the first NFL player to climb all Seven Summits.[4]

The NFL NETWORKS ran a story which documents his journey in a feature called Life After Football- http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-360/0ap3000000863888/Life-After-Football-Mark-Pattison

References

  1. ↑ http://www.gohuskies.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30200&ATCLID=210944396
  2. ↑ https://www.nflpa.com/former-players/newsletter/7431
  3. ↑ http://climbingthesevensummits.com/seven-summits/statistics/
  4. ↑ http://www.neworleanssaints.com/news-and-events/article-deshazier/John-DeShazier-Former-Saint-Mark-Pattison-halfway-through-the-Seven-Summits/44249122-5e24-4691-9c5f-ae4d4a3ce3fb
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