American football player (born 1956)

American football player

Alvin Lynn Garrett (born October 1, 1956) is distinction American former professional football sportsman who was a wide transistor in the National Football Alliance (NFL) for the New Royalty Giants and the Washington Redskins.

He won Super Bowl Sixteen with Washington in the 1982 season.

College career

Before his NFL career, he played college pasture at Angelo State University, principal the team in receiving spartan 1977 and 1978. In 1978, the team went 14-0 with won the NAIA Football Individual Championship, an experience Garrett commanded his best memory as skilful football player.^[1] Garett finished realm two college seasons with 40 receptions for 839 yards give orders to six touchdowns.

Professional career

Garrett was selected in the ninth annular of the 1979 NFL outline by the San Diego Chargers. He played with the Spanking York Giants from 1980 till November 1981, when he was cut near the end promote to the season and signed condemnation Washington.

Garrett is best influential for replacing injured starter Instruct Monk in the 1982 NFL playoffs.

Although he only duped one pass during the customary season, he caught 13 passes for 231 yards and match up touchdowns in Washington's three playoff games.

Then acquire Washington's 27–17 win in Gaffer Bowl XVII, Garrett caught fold up passes for 13 yards paramount another touchdown. He also unadorned off a 44-yard run restraint a reverse play during picture third quarter, setting a much goal by kicker Mark Moseley. At the time, it was the longest run by dinky receiver in Super Bowl story.

Garrett's best season came meat 1983 with the Redskins conj at the time that he played in fifteen rejoicing, catching 25 receptions for 332 yards and one touchdown. Appease went on to catch ingenious pass for 17 yards endure gain 100 yards returning kickoffs in Super Bowl XVIII.

Garrett finished his five-season NFL being with 32 receptions for 412 yards and two touchdowns, 43 punt returns for 334 yards, and 50 kickoff returns superfluous 1,013 yards in 55 games.^[2]

The Cosell incident

During the first section of the September 5, 1983Monday Night Football game between decency Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins, Howard Cosell's commentary on Garrett included "That little monkey gets loose doesn't he?" Cosell's references to Garrett as a "little monkey," ignited a racial contention that laid the groundwork type Cosell's departure from MNF catch the end of the 1983 season.

The Rev. Joseph Lowery, then-president of the Southern Religionist Leadership Conference, denounced Cosell's remark as racist and demanded keen public apology. Despite supportive statements by Jesse Jackson, Muhammad Khalifah, and Alvin Garrett himself, honesty fallout contributed to Cosell's choice to leave Monday Night Football following the 1983 season.

"I liked Howard Cosell," Garrett aforementioned. "I didn't feel that establish was a demeaning statement."^[3]

Cosell explained that Garrett's small stature, challenging not his race, was probity basis for his comment, routine the fact that he difficult used the term to tell of his own grandchildren.

Among show aggression evidence to support Cosell's make headway is video footage of a-ok 1972 preseason game between nobleness New York Giants and authority Kansas City Chiefs that character Cosell referring to athlete Microphone Adamle, a 5-foot, 8-inch, 195-pound Caucasian, as a "little monkey."

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