Skins Trying Out Kicker's Today

**murphskin** · 10-09-2012, 11:25 PM

I must be getting old. Don't even recognize 1/3 of that list of kickers. I'm thinking Mskins had to have made a few of them up.

Where is Luis Heswideright?

**duck** · 10-09-2012, 11:37 PM

Six of those kickers came in during Spurrier's tenure...

Surprised Davekn isn't in here preaching the value of John Hall again.

**murphskin** · 10-09-2012, 11:43 PM

You kiddin? Dave's already picked out the location of our next get together...

http://www.goalpostgrill.com/

Direct quote from the website:

ABOUT JOHN HALL:

Perseverance. For John Hall, it's more than a word - it's a way of life. Besides his unrivaled precision on the field, it's perhaps the trait he's most known for.

**Darrell Green Fan** · 10-10-2012, 10:52 AM

Rasta pointed out on Sunday that the best Redskins kicker in years was in fact Mr. John Hall. I never claimed he was great, just the tallest midget.

Yeah I too am unimpressed with the college stats of this guy Can we settle this dispute about the width of college vs. pro goal posts? Look the same to me.

**Darrell Green Fan** · 10-10-2012, 10:58 AM

What do you know?

[I][Goal posts in both the NFL and college football are 18 feet 6 inches apart. The goal posts in college used to be 23 feet 4 inches wide but were reduced to the same width as the NFL in 1991/I]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/I_have_hea...w_wide_is_each

**Ruzious** · 10-10-2012, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Davekn

What do you know?

[I][Goal posts in both the NFL and college football are 18 feet 6 inches apart. The goal posts in college used to be 23 feet 4 inches wide but were reduced to the same width as the NFL in 1991/I]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/I_have_hea...w_wide_is_each

I knew I wasnt crazy. Breed, on the other hand... At least when I was growing up, it was well known that college kickers had more room for error.

**Redskin Nation** · 10-10-2012, 03:37 PM

College kickers could also use tees on attempts back then too..

**duck** · 10-10-2012, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Redskin Nation

College kickers could also use tees on attempts back then too..

For field goals?

**Iggloo** · 10-10-2012, 06:21 PM

David Akers was your best kicker in years, only you didn't know it.

I just blinked and missed five Redskins kicker signings...

**Darrell Green Fan** · 10-10-2012, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Iggloo

David Akers was your best kicker in years, only you didn't know it.

I just blinked and missed five Redskins kicker signings...

Yeah don't think for a minute that I'm not still bitter about that. It was why I wanted them to keep Gano as he continued to hit his center in the ass.

Back to college yeah duck they were able to use a "tee" which was kind of like a hockey puck that the ball was placed on before the kick. And yeah I remember those goal posts being very wide with short uprights. There was a long list of great college kickers who failed. Here is perhaps the most famous, a duel kicker/punter picked 1tth overall by the Saints (ouch).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Erxleben

**duck** · 10-10-2012, 10:38 PM

I remember the high-school-like goal posts, but I don't remember college players being able to use a tee on field goals. Seems to require more coordination from the holder, to the point it could be detrimental.