As we have seen, place kickers can be key to a football team’s success. They are often enigmatic individuals for several reasons, including the fact that they have a limited albeit crucial role to play on the team. That is, they are often not “regular” football players.
A few who have played football at the highest professional level—in the National Football League (NFL) – grew up in countries other than the United States where they had no knowledge at all of American-style football.
Rather, they learned how to kick a ball playing what they call in other parts of the world “futbol” but which w...
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