Mark Ingram

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Mark Ingram
Date of birth:	August 23, 1965 (1965-08-23) (age 42)
Place of birth:	Rockford, Illinois
Career information
Position(s):	Wide receiver
College:	Michigan State
NFL Draft:	1987 / Round: 1 / Pick 28
Organizations
As player:
1987-1992 1993-1994 1995 1996	New York Giants Miami Dolphins Green Bay Packers Philadelphia Eagles

Mark J. Ingram (born August 23, 1965 in Rockford, Illinois) is a former American Football wide receiver in the NFL who played for the New York Giants (1987-1992), the Miami Dolphins (1993-1994), the Green Bay Packers (1995), and the Philadelphia Eagles (1996).

After playing high school football for Flint Northwestern high school He went on to play college football at Michigan State University, and was selected by the Giants in the first round (28th overall) in the 1987 NFL Draft.

Ingram is probably best known for a third down play in Super Bowl XXV in which he eluded at least five Buffalo Bills defenders to achieve a critical first down for the Giants to sustain a long touchdown drive. As a Miami Dolphin, in a game against the New York Jets, Ingram hauled in four touchdown passes from Dan Marino. The most notable was the game-winning TD which was the result of Marino faking out the Jets defense by indicating he was going to spike the ball to stop the clock. Instead, he lobbed a short pass to Ingram who was wide open in the end zone.

Ingram retired after the 1996 season and has been in trouble with the law ever since. In July 2001, Ingram was sentenced in a Miami federal court to six months in prison after getting caught with $3,290 in counterfeit cash during a police sting targeting a stolen vehicle. Ingram was sentenced to a year in jail in October 2004 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for stealing a credit card from Davison, Michigan's Copper Ridge golf course. Michigan prosecutors issued an arrest warrant in August 2007 that charged Ingram with a felony count of breaking and entering of a building in Grand Blanc Township near Flint, and of stealing a purse containing cash and credit cards.

[edit] See also

• History of the New York Giants (1979-1993)

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