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Dick Gordon (American football)

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Dick Gordon
No. 45, 5, 7, 88
Position:Wide receiver
Personal information
Born: (1944-01-01) January 1, 1944 (age 80)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Height:5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:190 lb (86 kg)
Career information
High school:Walnut Hills
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
College:Michigan State
NFL draft:1965 / round: 7 / pick: 88
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Receiving yards:3,594
Receptions:243
Yards per reception:14.8
Receiving touchdowns:36
Stats at Pro Football Reference

Richard Frederick Gordon (born January 1, 1944) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams, Green Bay Packers, and San Diego Chargers. After playing his option year with the Bears in 1971, Gordon became a free agent on May 1, 1972. The lateness of his signing with the Rams on October 12 after the start of the 1972 campaign was due to the uncertainty of compensation that the Bears were to receive. The Rams sent a 1974 first-round selection (20th overall–Dave Gallagher) to the Bears as compensation to complete the last of only four times the NFL exercised the Rozelle rule.[1][2][3] He was one of the fifteen plaintiffs in Mackey v. National Football League in which Judge Earl R. Larson declared that the Rozelle rule was a violation of antitrust laws on December 30, 1975.[4] In 2019, he was selected as one of the 100 greatest Bears of All-Time.

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