62 YARD Extra point?!?!?!?

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/975825.asp?cp1=1

Prep kicker boots 62-yard ... PAT?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — Faced with a 62-yard extra-point attempt yesterday, Wilson High School Coach Horace Fleming did not hesitate in giving senior David Rosenbaum the go-ahead to kick the ball.

After returning the kickoff 69 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter, Rosenbaum and his teammates incurred 15-yard penalties for excessive celebration, unsportsmanlike conduct and taunting, placing the ball at their 45. The 5-foot-11 Rosenbaum calmly stepped up and nailed the kick through the center of the uprights. Sixty-two yards, good for one point.

“I did it before in practice,” Rosenbaum said. “I saw it as a chip shot. I have hit longer ones in practice.”

Rosenbaum, who will attend the University of Virginia next year on a soccer scholarship :grr: , doesn’t practice every day with the Wilson football team because he plays for the Tigers’ soccer squad.

“I just wish I had him full time,” Fleming (sic) said. “He would be my starting tailback or quarterback.”


The longest field in Virginia stands at 58 yards. The Maryland record is 57.
Dirk Borgonone of Reno, Nev., set the national record with a 68-yard field goal in 1985.

Fleming said that Rosenbaum had convinced an assistant coach to give him a try at kick returner. He admits that he likes what he saw.
“I want him to continue that.”

Of course, I was playing Intellivision at the time but how much harder could it be in real life?

Oh, big deal... very funny.

Is real estate that expensive in Virginia?

a 58 yarder would put the ball on the 41 so 'round here they'd tend to go for it on 4th down.

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BTW-I have smoked (store bought brand)on this matter and it does not compute. If there were three 15 yrad penalties and the ball was originally on the the 3 yard line (as it should be)that would put the ball on the 48 and make it a 65 yarder. I know what I am talking about as I garnered the Honor Mention award for place kicker my senior year.*

*in a 5 team district :grr::mad:

I betcha when no one is looking you pull that White sweater out of the closet with that big narly Letter on it and stand proudly in front of the mirror..LOL ;-)

Of a two page spread for the football team there are 3 photos of me + the team picture. I pays to be on the yearbook staff.:bounce:

In an odd twist myself and three of the best men at my wedding are standing side by side by side by side in the team photo. Three of us hung out together all the time (since little league football) but the fourth member didn't really run with us at the time. Fate?

but that's a great feat and a damn good foot, to boot.

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Praytell?

I would kick this but it is already at the top.

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