Elmo Wright

Elmo Wright

NFL player


DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1949|7|3
Birthplace=Brazoria, Texas
DateOfDeath=
Position=Wide Receiver
College=Houston
DraftedYear=1971
DraftedRound=1 / Pick 16
Stats=y
DatabaseFootball=WRIGHELM01
PFR=WrigEl00
ProBowls=
Honors=
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Records=
years=1971-1974
1975
1975
teams=Kansas City Chiefs
Houston Oilers
New England Patriots
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Elmo Wright was attributed with being the first football player ever to perform an end zone dance, [cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/sports/ncaafootball/13wright.ready.html |title=Father of End-Zone Dance Explains His Happy Feet |publisher=New York Times |accessdate=2008-09-16 ] while at the University of Houston.

Wright was an All-American receiver for the Cougars and, somewhere during his collegiate career, he began the practice of "high-stepping" into the end zone at the end of long touchdown receptions. While this was no comparison to the antics later displayed by such famed celebrators as Billy "White Shoes" Johnson, Ickey Woods or Terrell Owens, it was almost equally shocking at the time.

Following his college playing days, Wright went on to star for the Kansas City Chiefs.

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