Flashbacks

[TheMacHouse]

I had flashbacks watching Mike Scifres kick for San Diego today and not good flashbacks. I still remember watching him kick the 56 yard FG to win the game for WIU and prevent UNI from making the playoffs. I watched him warm up that day and the guy could not miss from long distance so I had a bad feeling when he lined up to kick.

[UNI Fight]

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I was watching that and thought his name sounded familiar. He's the highest paid punter in the NFL now isn't he? Just signed a new deal.

[Panther-at-Arms]

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That's weird, the radio announcers said he hadn't place kicked since HS.

[UNI83]

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Terrible research skills by whoever was calling the game....a 30 second google search landed me this nugget

While playing for Western Illinois, Scifres was the only punter from NCAA Div 1-AA (now called the Football Championship Division) to become a 2002 finalist of the Ray Guy award, given to the nation's top punter. He set a school and conference record with an 89-yard punt against Southwest Missouri State in 2000. Scifres also kicked a game-winning 56-yard field goal in his first career FG attempt in 1999. Two-time First-team All-American selection by Football Gazette, Three-time All-conference selection, Seven-time National player of the week, and Five-time Conference player of the week. His college nickname was Scabies. He graduated from Western Illinois University with a degree in Communications & Broadcasting.

[PantherFan]

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That field goal he kicked against UNI kept us out of the playoffs that year.

[jnutt]

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Go BOLTS! Sorry to hear that he beat UNI years ago but has been great for my beloved Chargers (former RB Darren Sproles born in Waterloo btw - his relatives come to games a lot). At least Nate the Great can't lose any more playoff games for the Chargers.

[panther-state]

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So basically this guy has the most valuable leg in the NFL considering he can punt a ball 90 yds and kick a 50 yd FG....btw if 89yds was only the school and conference record...wth is the national record??? I've never heard of anyone punting a ball that far

[95UNIGRAD]

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So basically this guy has the most valuable leg in the NFL considering he can punt a ball 90 yds and kick a 50 yd FG....btw if 89yds was only the school and conference record...wth is the national record??? I've never heard of anyone punting a ball that far

According to wiki:

Longest Punt - 99 - Pat Brady, Nevada (FBS) vs. Loyola Marymount 1950

How is that even possible? Did he punt it from the 1/2 yard line to the 1/2 yard line on the other side of the field? I just can't picture that happening at all - guess it's one of those records that will never be broken.

[Cap'n Cat]

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According to wiki:

Longest Punt - 99 - Pat Brady, Nevada (FBS) vs. Loyola Marymount 1950

How is that even possible? Did he punt it from the 1/2 yard line to the 1/2 yard line on the other side of the field? I just can't picture that happening at all - guess it's one of those records that will never be broken.

Wind-aided. It's quite possible. Cap'n Cat kicked an 88 yard punt at Andrew HS (IL) in 1980 against Rich South HS in a very stiff tailwind.

[JayJ79]

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not to be confused with the other type of "tail wind" most often associated with the Cap'n..... (I kid, I kid) ;op

Alot of it depends on the bounce/roll as well, and sometimes the ability of the coverage team to down the ball before it goes into the endzone for a touchback

[Silent Earl]

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Wind and roll, but a 99 yarder probably stopped on it's own inside the one yard line rather than being downed by the coverage team.

[CincyPanther88]

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Here's an article where Scifres actually talks about the game winning kick.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Chargers-lose-kicker-to-injury-may-have-?urn=nfl-wp6986

[JayJ79]

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in official stats, aren't things always recorded to the nearest yard? So on that punt, the ball would officially been snapped from the 1-yard-line, and would have officially been marked as downed at the opposite 1-yard-line (even if in actuality, the spots were closer to the goal lines than the 1-yard lines). So I don't see how the official stats for a punt could register anything more than a 98-yarder (in American football, at least)

[TheMacHouse]

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in official stats, aren't things always recorded to the nearest yard? So on that punt, the ball would officially been snapped from the 1-yard-line, and would have officially been marked as downed at the opposite 1-yard-line (even if in actuality, the spots were closer to the goal lines than the 1-yard lines). So I don't see how the official stats for a punt could register anything more than a 98-yarder (in American football, at least)

A ball snapped from the 1 yard line and punted into the other endzone would be a 99 yard punt. It would be a net 79 but still count as a 99 yarder. A 98 yard punt would be better in that situation but you wouldn't get your name in the record book for the longest punt.

[95UNIGRAD]

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A ball snapped from the 1 yard line and punted into the other endzone would be a 99 yard punt. It would be a net 79 but still count as a 99 yarder. A 98 yard punt would be better in that situation but you wouldn't get your name in the record book for the longest punt.

That's a good point.