Tony Franklin

It only happened once before where one kicker on one team made two.

I think it was Tony Franklin for the Texas A&M who later kicked for the Patriots.

But nevertheless...

Indiana, that was the big one this afternoon.

So a couple of future Rams doing pretty well.

And Mark, Texas A&M's Tony Franklin made history, or Nearly did.

Well, so Tony Franklin had the NCAA record for field goals with 63.

OK, so the Texas A&M barefoot kicker, he is now trying to break that record.

So he had a 16 mile per hour breeze at his back.

I tried like three or four times.

Oh, and I don't think I ever got the ball off the ground.

But I love Tony Franklin for that reason.

No.

That was Tony Franklin.

There you

go.

Why does he wear 11? Do you want to know who it was prior to Cam Newton? Yeah.

Tony Franklin.

Oh, yeah, the barefooted punter.

Yeah.

But Dad was working with me on punting.

I used to punt.

I'm like, I'm going to try it with barefooted with Tony Franklin.

Then I tried it with a sock.

And USC's Pat Hayden who led the Trojans in a 55-point comeback against Notre Dame in 1974.

The 70s were also the era of the big kickers with barefoot Tony Franklin at Texas A&M.

Steve Little at Arkansas.

Russell Erksleben, who along with Franklin, set the NCAA record for distance 67 yards.

The Giants had Ali Haji-Sheikh, or Raul Allegre for a period.

The Eagles had Tony Franklin, who kicked with no shoe because kids-

Barefoot

... there...

I became a diehard Patriot fan in 1986.

The Tony Eason, Tony Franklin, Steve Grogan, Moises Tatupu, Irving Fryar Patriots going to Miami and squishing the fish, and the first time I actually knew what a T-shirt was and what it meant to be a Patriot fan and, you know, having the Squish the Fish T-shirt bought for me.

I remember my dad coming home with it, and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.

And then watching the Patriots get thoroughly annihilated by the Super Bowl-shuffling Chicago Bears Uh, sad day in the NFL, Fitzy