I continue to be find Sunday Morning Quarterback to be mandatory reading for both pleasure and for information. His post-Saturday posts this week deal with a number of things, such as Fresno State’s demise and the Tennessee-Georgia game, that we only touched upon. His best, though, dealt with that 7-overtime affair between Florida International and North Texas. It turns out that all of those zeroes in the OT columns were the result of missed field goals. SMQ:
“[T]he extended series of extra frames resulted in an astonishing eight missed field goal attempts among 13 attempted kicks altogether by both teams, featuring four straight misses in the third and fourth OTs and three straight in the sixth and seventh before Adam Vinatieri was flown in to commit suicide on the fifty, after which a beleaguered ball symbolizing the oceans of human blood spilled in futility throughout man’s dark and lonely existence finally went hurtling through for what was deemed ‘victory.’”
Inspired.
It’s becoming a obsessive meme of mine, something I will be ranting about to nursing home staff when I am unable to talk about anything else: Treat kickers as a recruiting afterthought at your own peril. Hell, I might even crazily make it my number ONE recruiting priority if I were putting together a squad, thinking that if I could get someone as automatic as an Elam or a Nugent (college version), then no matter how bad my team sucked we should still be able to get some points out of it any time we blunder past the opponent’s 35.
