Willie Gault

Willie Gault

NFL player


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DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1960|9|5
Birthplace= Griffin, Georgia
Position=Wide Receiver
College=Tennessee
DraftedYear=1983
DraftedRound=1/ Pick 18
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PFR=GaulWi00
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years=1983-1987
1988–1993
teams= Chicago Bears
Los Angeles Raiders
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Willie James Gault (born September 5, 1960) is a former American football wide receiver and Olympic athlete. Gault played in the National Football League for 11 seasons for the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Raiders. He was a member of the Bears team that won Super Bowl XX, and was also a member of the U.S. Olympic team that boycotted the 1980 Olympics. He is currently pursuing a career as an actor.

Biography

College and olympics

Gault was born in Griffin, Georgia. A star in both football and track at the University of Tennessee, Gault was part of a world record-setting 4 x 100 meter relay team, a 110 meter hurdler who would have gone to the 1980 Summer Olympics if the United States had not boycotted the event (he did attend the Olympic Boycott Games, where he won a bronze medal in the 100 meter race) and a bobsledder (he made the American Olympic team on one occasion). He was an All-American wide receiver in 1982.

NFL career

Gault was drafted in 1983, played with the Bears until 1988 and then was traded to the Los Angeles Raiders (now Oakland Raiders). Gault was the prototypical "speed merchant", meaning his greatest asset was his pure straight line swiftness. He was the primary long-pass threat on a team known as one of best defensive teams in history. In Super Bowl XX, Gault had four receptions for 129 yards, and four kickoff returns for 49 yards. He was also featured on the Super Bowl Shuffle.

Gault finished his 11 NFL seasons with 333 receptions for 6,635 yards. He also returned 9 punts for 60 yards, rushed for 154 yards, returned 45 kickoffs for 1,088 yards, and scored 45 touchdowns (44 receiving and 1 kickoff return).

After retiring as a player

Gault retired in the early 1990s and is pursuing an acting career in Hollywood. He portrayed Willie the Sweeper in the NBC series "the Pretender". He's had a few appearances on "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" playing himself alongside sportscaster Van Earl Wright and most recently was featured in the series finale. He also had a guest appearance on the CBS sitcom Still Standing as himself in 2004. On June 24, 2006, Gault set a world record of 10.72 seconds in the master's 100 meters, a division for athletes aged 45 to 49. On April 26, 2008, Gault (at age 47) set a new world record of 21.80 seconds in the M45-49 age-group for 200m. [http://www.flashresults.com/flashwest/results/2008track/08Lister-m.htm] He also was in an episode of MTV's Parental Control perusing his acting career.

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