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- NAME: Michael Irvin
- OCCUPATION: Football Player, Television Personality
- BIRTH DATE: March 05, 1966 (Age: 47)
- EDUCATION: University of Miami, St. Thomas Aquinas
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Full Name: Michael Jerome Irvin
- AKA: Michael Irvin
- Nickname: "The Playmaker"
- ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces
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Hall of Fame wide receiver Michael Irvin helped lead the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl titles in the early 1990s.
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Eight years later, in 2007, Irvin was voted into the Football Hall of Fame.
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Later Years
Following his departure from the game, the charismatic Irvin jumped into the broadcast booth. He has worked for ESPN and, more recently, the NFL Network.
In 2009, Irvin competed on ABC's dance-competition program Dancing with the Stars. Irvin and his partner, Anna Demidova, made it to the seventh week before being voted off of the program.
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