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ProfessorGAC

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12. I'm With You

Reply to era veteran (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 07:47 PM

Sep 2012

The people who think he had an unfair advantage really strike me as clueless. The guy was physically handicapped and the "special" shoe was something he would have surely have forgone had he had a foot like the rest of us.

Really small of people to belittle his accomplishment.

I also agree with you about having to have kicked that in the heavy air of New Orleans.
GAC

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Akers joins the 63 Yard Club. [View all] cherokeeprogressive Sep 2012 OP

Akers should hold the record by himself.. Upton Sep 2012 #1

Yeah, but all those others InternalDialogue Sep 2012 #2

The record should belong to Matt Bryant alone. Akers made the kick in a game with replacement refs. fishwax Sep 2012 #3

Not really.. Upton Sep 2012 #5

it's silly to claim that a kick in an official game in a regular stadium somehow shouldn't count fishwax Sep 2012 #6

An ESPN sports science investigation concluded Dempsey's shoe hughee99 Sep 2012 #8

I remember the study.. Upton Sep 2012 #9

Take a square faced steel mallot out to your local football field hughee99 Sep 2012 #10

You might be right about the steel.. Upton Sep 2012 #11

He kicked a 63 yard field goal using legal equipment, hughee99 Sep 2012 #13

Great kick. I saw all the record kicks aside from Dempsey's fishwax Sep 2012 #4

Akers is a local kid from Tates Creek High School era veteran Sep 2012 #7

I'm With You ProfessorGAC Sep 2012 #12