"I keeeck a Touchdown". Sounds made up to me, but never let the facts get in the way of a good story, and that's a good one!rhickok1109 wrote:It may be apocryphal, but I read a story about Efren Herrera, who was a soccer player at UCLA when he was asked to try out as a placekicker for the football team. In the tryout, all of Herrera's kicks were accurate, but they all went under the crossbar.Rupert Patrick wrote:I still like the horizontal top bar idea, a bar on top of the goal post, and it has to go inside the rectangle to be good.
The coach told Herrera that they couldn't use him because he didn't seem to have the leg strength to get his kicks over the crossbar.
Herrera responded, "They're supposed to go OVER the crossbar?"
I was born in England and my family came here when I was very young, I remember in the 70's my dad saying, why dint they just bring some rugby players over they can run and kick better than these guys. I don't think he'd say that today.
To Ruperts' idea, its interesting in that id there was a max height it would seem to bring down the field goal percentage on shorter kicks but not on longer kicks. What would that do for strategy, teams would go for it more often close in - a good outcome. But kick a field goal just as freely from 40 yards out. I don't love the concept myself, but the strategy implications are interesting, you'd go for it much more often on 4th and 1 at the 30 than at the 15.
