SkippinTurtles Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Been obsessed with the NFL since the 80's and have no idea why kicking exists. An arbitrary non-contact position in a brilliantly violent game. Swinging your leg to decide the outcome of a brutally vicious sport is like deciding a boxing match with a jump rope contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bone Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Rolf Benirschke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Matt Bahr.. tough little mother fucker who would tackle too.. fearless.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalterWhite Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Jeff Reed, Steelers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Been obsessed with the NFL since the 80's and have no idea why kicking exists. An arbitrary non-contact position in a brilliantly violent game. Swinging your leg to decide the outcome of a brutally vicious sport is like deciding a boxing match with a jump rope contest. Alternatively, the only time in the game called football where a foot connects with a ball to score points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wargograw Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Been obsessed with the NFL since the 80's and have no idea why kicking exists. An arbitrary non-contact position in a brilliantly violent game. Swinging your leg to decide the outcome of a brutally vicious sport is like deciding a boxing match with a jump rope contest. Completely agree. I hate kicking. It's at odds with the rest of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StinkHole Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Jeff Reed, Steelers. An upstanding member of society as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Completely agree. I hate kicking. It's at odds with the rest of the game.= And yet it's called FOOTball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StinkHole Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 The Lonesome Kicker very funny... "But I kick that ball and I pray it goes straight, If it does the coach says good job number 8, He doesn't even know my name is Andre Kristakovichalinsky Jr. Its the life I live, the lonesome kicker" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren15 Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 My Fave Kicker since I was 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Been obsessed with the NFL since the 80's and have no idea why kicking exists. An arbitrary non-contact position in a brilliantly violent game. Swinging your leg to decide the outcome of a brutally vicious sport is like deciding a boxing match with a jump rope contest. Well, they do call it Football......so somewhere in the mix the foot and the ball have to interact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wargograw Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Who's the enforcement authority on that rule? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike H Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 I tend to have as my favorite player people that like play for my teams and that like make the Hall of Fame. Can you name a Browns Kicker that is in the HOF? If so, there you go. Yea, that would be the guy nicknamed The Toe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 I'll go with the last Brown to handle all of the kicking duties... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Coon Dawg. Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tour2ma Posted April 14, 2016 Report Share Posted April 14, 2016 Lou the Toe. As a kid, to all the fans he was bigger than life and he seldom missed. When I was in Jr. High I met him once at the MetroPark Tobaggan run. "Bigger than life" was accurate. "Never missed"? Not so much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinTurtles Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Field goals are great until your team loses a big game on a fucking missed field goal. Let the actual athletes decide the outcome of games. People show up in New York to watch the Rockettes. Chicks swinging their legs is hot. Dudes swinging their legs is pussy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Dependable old number 12, Don Cockroft. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Been obsessed with the NFL since the 80's and have no idea why kicking exists. An arbitrary non-contact position in a brilliantly violent game. Swinging your leg to decide the outcome of a brutally vicious sport is like deciding a boxing match with a jump rope contest. But having a good- or great kicker can mean the difference between winning and losing. Just ask Scott Norwood if he still has nightmares about that missed kick. I tend to have as my favorite player people that like play for my teams and that like make the Hall of Fame. Can you name a Browns Kicker that is in the HOF? If so, there you go. Yea, that would be the guy nicknamed The Toe. Lou the Toe. As a kid, to all the fans he was bigger than life and he seldom missed. Lou was my favorite Brown of the 60s, Moreso than Jim Brown. My second has to be Phil Dawson- even though he booked on us. That FG against the Bills in a blizzard has to be one of the greatest ever. BTW, if Phil was still playing for the Browns- he just eclipsed Groza in career points. PS- Groza is in the HOF as much for playing OT, as his kicking, George Blanda for his quarterbacking. Jan Stenerud is the only pure kicker in the Hall, though MHO is Morton Andersen belongs. It was about time they let Ray Guy in as a punter. If you're the best at what you do- you should be in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gftChris Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Surely Ama Vinatieri will make it in there not long after retiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Surely Ama Vinatieri will make it in there not long after retiring. If Morton Andersen isn't in yet- Vinatieri will be waiting a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinTurtles Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I find the nickname "The Toe" offensive. Sincerely, Tom Dempsey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flugel Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 If Morton Andersen isn't in yet- Vinatieri will be waiting a long time. What kills Morton Andersen is missing that very doable FG vrs Atlanta in the NFC Championship Game as the first kick he missed all year right after the commentator mentioned he hadn't missed all year. That was the year Randall Cunningham wasn't supposed to be a good WCO QB but Robert Smith, Cris Carter, Randy Moss, Jake Reed and 2-3 Pro Bowl linemen kind of made it tough to suck. Cunningham would sport the best passer ratings of his career with something like a 109 to go with a 15-1 record. Come to think of it, didn't Minnesota just blow another kick this last post season vrs Seattle? Groza was awesome kicking and playing some excellent Offensive Tackle for us. One guy that was not my fave was Don Cockroft. In that red right game, he had about a 38 yard FG attempt land about 15 yards shy of the goal post. Knowing all we needed at the end was a FG to win - his junior achievement was a big reason we had the blunder Brian Sipe is more remembered for than an MVP season from so many exciting comebacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Blanda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 I find the nickname "The Toe" offensive. Sincerely, Tom Dempsey. Toeless Tom Dempsey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinTurtles Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Tom Dempsey had the longest FG record with no toes on his right foot. Saying he was offended by the nickname Lou Groza had, "the Toe", was kinda funny. Fuck it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkippinTurtles Posted April 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Toeless Tom Dempsey? Tom Dempsey had no toes on his kicking foot with a specially made boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flugel Posted April 15, 2016 Report Share Posted April 15, 2016 Tom Dempsey had the longest FG record with no toes on his right foot. Saying he was offended by the nickname Lou Groza had, "the Toe", was kinda funny. Fuck it. Dom gummit! I wasn't expecting to lose a freakin mouth full of beverage all over the laptop but that was a rip snortin riot ST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FALCON7 Posted April 19, 2016 Report Share Posted April 19, 2016 The late great Garo Yepremian, because he had that amazingly entertaining passing ability... My real favorite's Phil or Lou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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