Mercury Morris
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Eugene Edward "Mercury" Morris, who was born on January 5, 1947, is a retired American football running back and kick returner.
He played for seven years, most for the Miami Dolphins in the American Football League (AFL), then in the American Football Conference after the 1969 National Football League merger (NFL). Morris played in three Super Bowls, winning 2, and was selected to three Pro Bowls. Morris was found guilty of felony drug trafficking in 1982.
After three and a half years in jail, he was released after a plea deal in which he pleaded no contest to cocaine conspiracy charges.
Amateur career
Morris was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Avonworth High School in the city's northwestern suburbs. He attended West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University), 1965 to 1969, where he served as an All-American for the Buffaloes from 1965 to 1969. He finished second in the country to O. J. Simpson of the United StatesC in rushing yards in 1967, at 44–45.
Morris set a new rushing record in a single game with 340, rushing yards in a single season, and rushing yards over a three-year college career (freshmen being ineligible), with 4,388. 44–45 Morris' three-season rushing record was shattered by Don McCauley two years ago.: 44–45
Morris was selected in the third round of the 1969 AFL-NFL Common Draft by the Miami Dolphins, following college.
Professional football career
Morris excelled as both a running back and kick returner. The bulk of his playing days were spent with the Miami Dolphins. Jim Kiick was backed up at halfback and spent as the Dolphins' primary kickoff return man from 1969 to 1971. Morris averaged 26.4 yards per kickoff return in his rookie year as a quarterback, leading the AFL in kickoff returns with 43 yards and 1136. Both numbers would have also led the NFL. 772 His 105-yard return was the longest in the AFL this season, and he was also one of the top punt returners in the AFL this year. In 1970, he missed some time on the field due to a leg injury, but his 6.8 yard per carry average of 60 runs was the highest in the league among players with at least 50 runs.: 59
204 : 61–63, despite being dissatisfied with his minimal playing time as the backup halfback, the Dolphins won their first Super Bowl, Super Bowl VI, by leading the American Football Conference (AFC) with a 28.2 yard return average. 772 Morris made the most of his running back appearances this season by gaining 315 yards on 57 passes for a 5.5 percent average, an average that would have led the NFL if he had enough carries to qualify. 766 For the first time as a kick returner, Morris was picked for the Pro Bowl for the first time as a running back, but he also served as a running back in the game.: 61–63
Morris earned Super Bowl rings in Super Bowl VII and Super Bowl VIII, and he was selected for the Pro Bowl in both years. He spent time with Kiick in 1972, being involved in fewer plays than Kiick, but running back has a different feel. 205 He ran for just 1,000 yds on 190 runs, making him and teammate Larry Csonka, the first 1,000-yard tandem in NFL history. Morris was expected to finish with 991 yards, but the Dolphins' administration requested that the league investigate a play in which Morris fumbled a lateral; Morris was given the nine yards previously unaccounted for on the play, earning him 1,000 yards for the season. Morris averaged 12 touchdowns in the NFL in the 2007 season, 766, and his 5.3 yard per carry average ranked third in the NFL.
Despite playing with a neck injury late in the season, Morris had taken over the starting halfback position and rushed for 954 yards on 149 attempts by 1973. His 6.4 yards per carry average led the NFL in the NFL for the first time in the NFL, a record for the seventh time in the NFL, a record for the NFL in rushing touchdowns.
Morris was a success in a string of playoff games leading up to Miami's two Super Bowl championships. In both the divisional playoff game against Cleveland and the AFC Championship Game against Pittsburgh with 72 yards and 76 yards respectively, he led the Dolphins in rushing. 235,242 In 1973, he led the Dolphins in rushing for the divisional playoff game against Cincinnati with 106 yards and 86 more in the AFC Championship Game against Oakland.: 253,260
Morris played for the Dolphins in 1974 and 1975 before he spent the remainder of his playing time with the San Diego Chargers in 1976. After Csonka left the World Football League in 1974, he was supposed to be the team's primary running back, but a knee injury limited him to five regular season games this year. 83 Despite sharing the Dolphins' halfback position with Benny Malone, Morris led the Dolphins in rushing yards in 1975, with 875. 91 In part due to the neck injury suffered in a 1973 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers and reinstated in a vehicle accident, he was traded to San Diego before the 1976 season but decided against retirement after the season.: 98
During his eight-year career, Morris ranked in the top five of the NFL in rushing touchdowns twice and total touchdowns twice. His career average of 5.1 yards per carry was his third highest among NFL players (1st among halfbacks) behind only fullbacks Jim Brown and Marion Motley. As of 2017, he ranked 6th all time behind Brown, Motley, running back Jamaal Charles, and quarterback Randall Cunningham. Morris' career kickoff average of 26.5 is among the all-time top 20 for players with at least 100 returns, and he was ranked in the top ten at the time of his retirement. 784 He was ranked 18th in 2017 as of 2017.
Post-football career
Morris appeared in Bookie Garrett in the 1974 blaxplosion film The Black Six alongside other football stars of the day.
Morris was found guilty of cocaine trafficking in 1982. He was sentenced to twenty years in prison, as well as a mandatory fifteen-year term. His appeal was reversed by the Florida Supreme Court on March 6, 1986, because he had failed to establish his entrapment defense had been barred under a misleading portrayal, according to learn. Morris was given a fresh trial. After serving three years in prison, he was able to strike a negotiated compromise with the prosecutor, resulting in his freedom from jail on May 23, 1986. He later appeared in an anti-cocaine Public Service Announcement where he spoke about his time in jail.
He went on to work as a motivational speaker later in life.
He and Wade Boggs were in a television commercial spot for a hair-treatment clinic near the end of 2006.