Richard Avery Moser is an actor

Actor

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 and a former American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 running back

Running back

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 who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Pittsburgh Steelers

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, Miami Dolphins

Miami Dolphins

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, Kansas City Chiefs

Kansas City Chiefs

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, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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 of the NFL. He attended Scarsdale High School

Scarsdale High School

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 and the University of Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island

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.

Football career

Moser played in parts of five NFL seasons between 1978 and 1982 for four different teams, carrying the ball 54 times for 190 yards and one touchdown in total. He also caught three passes for 10 yards and one score and returned six kickoffs for 108 yards in his professional career. Moser was a member of two Super Bowl

Super Bowl

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 winning teams with the Steelers following the 1978 (Super Bowl XIII

Super Bowl XIII

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) and 1979 (Super Bowl XIV

Super Bowl XIV

Super Bowl XIV was an American football game played on January 20, 1980 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California to decide the National Football League champion following the 1979 regular season...

) seasons.

Acting career

Moser has acted in several movies, most notably as the high-sock wearing assistant football coach in Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

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, as a football player in Everybody's All-American

Everybody's All-American

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, and as himself in Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story

Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story

Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story was a 1980 made-for-television movie about the life of Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rocky Bleier, starring Robert Urich. It was released on 7 December 1980....

. He has appeared in the popular television series The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life (TV series)

The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979 to May 7, 1988. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focused on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, a prestigious...

and Diff'rent Strokes

Diff'rent Strokes

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External links

• Rick Moser on Scarsdale Football