Mark Pattison (American football)


Mark Lester Pattison is a former American football wide receiver who played four seasons in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Raiders, Los Angeles Rams, and New Orleans Saints. He played college football at the University of Washington in Seattle.

High school

Born and raised in Seattle, Pattison graduated from its Roosevelt High School in 1980. He was an All-American at wide receiver as a junior and at quarterback as a senior. In both seasons for the Roughriders, he was the player of the year voted on by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. Pattison was elected to the Roosevelt Hall of Fame in 2004 and is one of five football players inducted since 1922.

College

Pattison was a three-year letterman at the University of Washington in Seattle under head coach Don James, ending with the 1984 season and a victory in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Night.
He was selected in the seventh round of the 1985 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Raiders.
The 1984 team was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame in 2016.

After football

Following his NFL career, Pattison took up mountain climbing. In 2013, he began a goal to climb the Seven Summits, the highest points on each of the seven continents. To date, his successful ascents include Mount Kilimanjaro in 2013, Mount Elbrus in 2014, Mount Kosciuszko in 2015, and Aconcagua in February, 2016. Pattison would become one of only about 350 people who have climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents and the first NFL player to climb all Seven Summits.
The NFL Network ran a story which documents his journey in a feature called Life After Football-