Danny Ray Pittman (born April 3, 1958) is a former

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

wide receiver who played five seasons in the

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with the New York Giants and

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. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fourth round of the

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. He first enrolled at Pasadena City College before transferring to the

University of Wyoming The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming. It was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory was admitted as the 44th state, and opened in September 1887. The University of Wyoming ...

and attended

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in Pasadena, California.

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