Casey Merrill

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Casey Merrill (football) (or Richard Casey Merrill) was a professional football athlete played for three NFL teams in the 1980's, the Green Bay Packers (1979-1982), New York Giants (1983-1986) and his last year with the New Orleans Saints in the 1987 season.

[edit] Career Stats

Richard Casey Merrill ,Position: DE , Height: 6' 4, Weight: 255

Year	Team	colspan5= Games	Passing					Rushing
Year	Team	GP	SK	SFY	IN	Yds	LN	TD	TO	OW	OP	Yds.	TD
1979	GB	13	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1980	GB	16	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
1981	GB	16	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
1982	GB	9	4.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	GB	5	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	NYG	10	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1984	NYG	16	8.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	NYG	11	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986	NYG	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986	NO	1	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	style="background-color: #eee;"
Career - 8 NFL Season Totals
Regular Season Totals	97	18.5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0		style="background-color: #eee;"

Merrill spend nine full seasons in professional football as a defense running back. He was part of the 1986 season New York Giants, but was traded to another team, the New Orleans Saints and he missed Super Bowl XXI in 1987 when the NY Giants won the league championship title. However, Merrill has a super bowl ring from team mates who never forgot his role in that season.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Personal Life

Born in Danville, California east of Oakland on July 16, 1957, Richard Casey Merrill was born to an upper-middle class family of Irish American parentage. As a child, Merrill became interested in playing sports such as baseball, basketball, horse riding and wrestling. He received a sports scholarship to play football for the University of California Davis football team in 1976 and 1977, when he was drafted by the Packers in the NFL Draft in 1978.

Merrill retired from sports in 1988 and went on to self-establishing a commercial Land appraisal business in the 1990's that still operates today from his home in the California desert community of Bermuda Dunes near Indio. Recently, the home office became an actual business in a Palm Desert shopping center.^{[citation needed]}

Merrill married Nilda, a NY Giants personnel secretary, in 1991 and raised five children together, one of them Zach, was diagnosed with high-functioning autism but has a high school sports resumé like his brother Casey Jr. in Palm Desert High School. Merrill has a vacation home in a ranch near Borrego Springs east of San Diego.^{[citation needed]}