52 YARDS FOR A SCHOLARSHIP

I’ve hit a 30-yarder. Drunk. At 3 AM. In Memorial Stadium.

I had a 40 in high school. Yep, a 40 oz Olde English 800.

but really, a 40 yd. FG too…in practice

That’s hardcore.

I hit one from 35 yards in the big Horseshoe in Columbus, but then I missed from 40 and my dreams of walking on and using up my last year of eligibility ended ( i played soccer as an undergrad). I probably should have practiced a few times beforehand with a football, but that’s what a dumb cocky bastard I was back then.

real men toe punch.

WOW….leveled. He was concussed. I’d much rather spectate football than play actually, even if it was to play as the kicker.

46 yarder in Arizona Stadium. It looked like the BC over Notre Dame kick, though.

And I didn’t even have the pressure of John Goodman telling me all of the things we would get if we won the homecoming game.

boom bitch

Dumbass Spike Dykes. You can call that play if you need three yards, but not if you need twelve.

That was one of the worst nights of my life.

Ah, memories. Back when DKR had a track and astroturf.

Not pictured in the video: Red Raider fans “making it rain” with tortillas.

52 yards…at practice…with no D-line (which certainly would have blocked it). 42 in a game though. And I started at WR, FS, and P too, so no kicker jokes.

I had no idea the EDSBS readership was comprised of 95% former kickie-sluts. That explains some things.

I talk too much trash though. I really, really suck at kicking a football.

I was at that game, O. The crowd was thrilled at first – cheering loudly – before everyone realized at the same time, “Wait. He might have just died. Uh oh.”

30 in the Swamp. barefoot! It was the ugliest, wobbliest kick of all time too.

Orson – you’re selling yourself short. That 25er you missed- wasn;t that at your family drunk field goal kicking contest that your Pa Swindle heads up (if I remember correctly, on New Years Day every year or Christmas or some damn family holiday where everyone gets drunk)? Maybe I dreamed that thread of yours. If i did dream it, its good to know you make me laugh even in my dreams.

Urban’s getting weak. Nick Saban makes his kicker make one for the souls of his unborn children.

Fuck Urban Meyer. There, I feel better now.

Urban Meyer created field goal kicking.

Orson, I DEMAND you view this and write an explanation.

Actually, if you can make it through the entire thing without clawing your eyes out, you guys deserve another MNC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTV-Oj4U1qs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Figottarant%2Ecom%2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Ft%3D46828

Check out the Tech lineman’s indifference once the UT trainer comes into play. Fat fuck just leaves his boy at the mercy of the visiting trainer. Saaaad. Alabama Man woulda slapped the shit outta dude fo’ not mindin’ his biznass.

Sorry. That was a fullback that couldn’t give a shit. Or at least methinks so, as no standard has been established for losers like me (or some or all of us) to mine historical data from FBS schools. (The Tech site wouldn’t let me access the ’95 roster. Or I was too drizzunk.)

By the way, Texas won 48-7, and had to settle for a 24-24 kiss with Oklahoma the same year in the RED-RIVER WHATEVER-PEOPLE-CALL-IT.

To think that certain coaches and university presidents were opposed to OT back then just like some of those same fucks are against whatever-version-of-a-postseason-is- sexy-this-week makes me sad.

For y’all non-Yankees, former Vandy president E. Gordon Gee called tOSU’s 1992 13-13 taint washing w/ Meechigan one of the greatest blah, blah, blah… This is the same asshole who’s trying to make it so that Alabama recruits can’t run coke/crack/fake grades through an AD that wouldn’t exist if Gee we’re running things over in Overland Park, KS. Or wherever the fuck the home office of the N-C-double A be at.

I love it when an FCS team gives the business to a Pink Trophy* team.

*See ‘06 Colorado (Montana State) or 80’s era KSU. Or tOSU, as they deserve to lose to YSU 9/01 after going so long w/o scheduling one of these bullshit games.

Can’t you people see I need more than a box of dried grapes next week??!!!

SSL

Funny you should mention this as I took a kicking tee and two footballs to the local high school last weekend. I hadn’t tried a field goal in 20 years, but I somehow managed to hit a 35 yarder or two (and missed many other kicks, including some PATs). My longest FG ever was a 50-yard wounded duck in high school while goofing around in practice (I was a punter and 8th-string linebacker – not a placekicker).

I think I got my two young boys interested in kicking, which was my goal.

Back in 1992, I was actually an all-conference punter (the guys ahead of me at real positions like LB and TE went on to play 1-AA ball, so I’m not too ashamed), which earned me a trip to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to have my picture taken while standing next to fifteen-time Heisman winner, Ron Powlus. So there. I actually did hit a 50 yard FG during high school practice (block kicking tee, no defensive rush). I may or may not have taken a ten yard running start, but that motherfucker went through the uprights.

I later turned into an all-conference offensive tackle at Penn State. Well, Penn State intramurals. And it’s possible I designated myself an all-star, but fuck you.

Ahh, maskedavenger. I see we’re linebacking doppelgangers. I couldn’t tackle a fucking thing for some reason. I could catch a snowflake in a wind tunnel, but bringing down a running back? That shit’s for suckers.

That ties into the idea of having a scouting combine at our tailgate. Run the 40, vertical leap, shuttle, etc etc.

Or we could just do bar sports.

Run Up the Score.
As I read your post, i was like “Wow…oh” “wow….oh” “wow…oh” Nicely done.

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If that’s what would have happened at tOSU had we won, Im glad we lost. That is embarrassing.(not as embarrassing as 41-14 but whatever)

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LSU representin’…pullin down a few more FC points down the stretch.
http://www.nola.com/lsu/t-p/football/index.ssf?/base/sports-2/118793536553280.xml&coll=1
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Thread Jack…

http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/9352316.html

I guess we’ll take our point for this one.

Isn’t it against NCAA regulations for Florida to have a decent kicker, much less one who can make a 52 yarder under pressure?

1.) Real men don’t kick footballs.

2.) What kind of parallel NCAA universe is UF residing in that they have extra scholarships just lying around? Or are they just left over from all the suspensions? (I keed.. I keed!)

RUTS,

I was ok as a tackler, but 155# soaking wet. We had two eventual Div. 1 LBs and a 2-time NAIA All-American playing SS (my 4.8-with-a-wind-behind-my-back 40 was not conducive to any DB position where I actually had to run more than a couple of yards) so significant PT just wasn’t happening.

The coaches did get pissed at our third string RB one game and I was taught the position in a day. Surprisingly my 6.7 yards/carry average (3 rushes for 20 yards) did not get me Sam McGuffie-like hype.

Urban Meyer slammed his hat to the turf, looked at senior kicker Joey Ijjas and yelled, "Visors are for pussies!".

Soccer-style kickers are pussies; real men amputate their toes and kick straight-away.

Not a kicker but could snap a football 15 yards in HS.

I could snap roughly 20, but my punter was usually 15 back. Made for a couple of really bad nights, let me tell you.

Schizophrenia of the foot?
CLASSIC!!!

I love the high school hero stories on here. I “might” have made 1 out of 50 lifetime attempts at extra points while goofing around after practice, etc. I was beyond terrible at kicking a football, and, obviously, have never played a day of soccer in my life. Strangely enough I now watch Euro soccer on that Fox channel, periodically.

Anyone that bags on kickers, I have 2 words fro you:
Ryan Succoup. That’s how important a kicker is.

Bah. This story does nothing to build up my hump of hate for Urban Meyer. Pass.

Once kicked a 42 yarder off a tee on old high school field. Could never kick soccer style, I think those that can are witches.

And LOL at all the internet tough guys. Now they’re so lacking confidence in their masculinity that kicking a football is considered femme? Kicking things is fun.

You tools probably wear your collars popped.

This thread got me thinking about my HS days, which reminded me of a (funny?) story:

So I was about to be a senior in HS, at the point where college recruiting begins (at least for the guys who aren’t on Peeete Carroll’s “8-year olds to watch” list). My coach had recently come to the west coast from some school in down south where he won a couple state championships, and he swore he was going to do the same with us, and get us all recruited to D-I programs to boot.

Flash forward to my senior year, where I had a couple big touchdown catches and an interception in the first two games (it was all downhill from there, if you must know). I start getting letters addressed to me at school from college football programs. Mostly from small regional schools at first, like Pomona, Redlands, Linfield, Montana, etc. Then I get an invitation to the Nike scouting combine. My coach says I should go, so I say what the heck.

Before actually going to the combine, I had to fill out a stat sheet saying what position I played, height, weight, bench, 40-time, vertical, etc. Well, being that I was attending at a small school on the west coast with a crappy program, I had no idea what any of most of those numbers really were, so I put down the following:

WR/FS/K/P; 6’2" 180lbs.; 170 bench; 250 squat; 26" vertical….4.5 second 40 yd. dash

Yeah, 4.5. In reality, the numbers would have been more accurate had they been switched. Well, something came up and I couldn’t attend the combine, so I guess the combine folks just passed the numbers that I gave them along. A few weeks later, I start getting more interest from colleges: Washington, Stanford, Oregon State, Cal, Navy, Army, WSU, Oregon, etc. Letters a school, the occasional call from a WR coach at home, stuff like that.

To make a long story short, I eventually quit getting calls and attention. It was either because (a) I showed no interest in being recruited/playing college football; or (b) the schools saw me play and couldn’t figure out why I ran like my feet were stuck in mud. I lean towards (b).

Morals of the story: Be wary of recruiting numbers released by HS kids, and if you want your son to play CFB, lie your pants off.

Back in 82 I could kick a pigskin a quarter mile.

That is pretty damn sweet.

I’m pretty solid from 40 yards and in, and can stretch out to 45 ish. Longest made is 48 and I have hit the crossbar from 50, but that one was off a tee.

I did kick a couple of 35 yarders in the Georgia Dome which was damn cool. Made em both, too, bitches.

D-I golf programs get 4.5 scholarships. It sounds like Urban could spare one for Florida’s golf team if he can throw them around so easily.