Mark Ricardo Bell (born June 14, 1957) 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 and punt returner who played two seasons in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

(NFL) for the

St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals ha ...

College career

Bell attended Colorado State University, and played four years with the

Rams In engineering, RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)WAC team honors. He was one of three Colorado State players with the surname Bell who were selected during the 1979 NFL Draft.

Professional career

Bell was selected in the fifth round of the

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by the

. He played parts of two seasons with the Cardinals, and was released after one game in the 1981 season.

References

External links

NFL.com player page
1957 births Living people Players of American football from Youngstown, Ohio American football wide receivers Colorado State Rams football players St. Louis Cardinals (football) players {{widereceiver-1950s-stub