Found one...
You listed a bunch of misses, they dont kick 100% of there kicks. FInd me a kicker who never missed and played for at least 3 years!
Adam Vinatieri
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Adam Vinatieri in 2007No. 4 Indianapolis Colts
PlacekickerPersonal informationDate of birth: December 28, 1972 (1972-12-28) (age 37)
Place of birth:
Yankton, South DakotaHeight: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight: 202 lb (92 kg)
Career informationCollege:
South Dakota StateUndrafted in
1996Debuted in 1996 for the
New England PatriotsCareer history As player:
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics as of Week 10, 2009Field Goals Made 337
Field Goals Attempted 411
Field Goals % 82.0
Long Field Goal 57Stats at
NFL.comAdam Matthew Vinatieri (born December 28, 1972 in
Yankton,
South Dakota) is an
American football placekicker currently playing for the
Indianapolis Colts. He has played in five
Super Bowls, four with the
New England Patriots and one with the Colts, winning all but one. Vinatieri won a Super Bowl in 2007 with Indianapolis and won Super Bowls in 2002, 2004, & 2005 with the Patriots. Vinatieri is the first kicker ever to play in five Super Bowls and win four Super Bowl rings. His only Super Bowl loss came in
Super Bowl XXXI in 1996, against the
Green Bay Packers, 35-21.
Vinatieri is generally considered to be one of the best
clutch kickers in the history of the
National Football League.
[1] Nicknamed "Automatic Adam" for his accuracy, and "Iceman" for his incredible poise under pressure, Vinatieri has converted several of the most crucial field goals in NFL history, including game-winning kicks in the final seconds of two Super Bowls (
XXXVI,
XXXVIII).
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[edit] Personal
Adam and his wife Valeri and their two children reside in
Carmel, Indiana during the football season and
Celebration, Florida during the off-season. He is the second of four children. His great-great grandfather is Felix Vinatieri, an Italian immigrant who served as Lt Col
George Armstrong Custer's bandmaster
[2][3]. Adam said in an interview that Lt Col Custer told Felix Vinatieri to head back to camp instead of going ahead with the regiment to Little Big Horn, and that this decision saved his great-great grandfather's life. He is also a third cousin to the famous daredevil,
Evel Knievel.
[4]
A collection of Felix Vinatieri manuscripts and instruments can be found at the National Music Museum located in Vermillion, South Dakota.
[5]
His hobbies include hunting, riding motorcycles and golfing.
[edit] Career
[edit] High School
Adam attended Central High School (
Rapid City, South Dakota) and was a letterman in football, wrestling, basketball, cross country, soccer, and track. In football, he earned first team All-State honors as a senior. He graduated from Central High School in 1991.
[edit] College career
Vinatieri was originally recruited to kick for Army and attended
West Point for two weeks in 1991 before deciding to return home to South Dakota.
[6] He was a four-year letterman at
South Dakota State University as a placekicker and punter. He finished up his college years of football as the school's all-time scoring leader with 185 career points scored. (His younger brother Beau was a place kicker at
Black Hills State University before graduating in 2003).
[edit] Early Professional Career
He spent the fall of 1995 training to compete professionally. He received a tryout for the
World League of American Football (later rebranded as
NFL Europe), now defunct, and earned a roster position with the
Amsterdam Admirals as a placekicker and punter.
[edit] New England Patriots
In 1996, he was signed by the Patriots as an
undrafted free agent to be a place kicker. He played in New England for the first 10 years of his
NFL career, during which he played in four
Super Bowls, winning three. His first Super Bowl appearance was in his rookie season of 1996, when he played with the Patriots in their 35-21 loss to the
Green Bay Packers in
Super Bowl XXXI. One of his kickoffs in the Super Bowl was returned by
Desmond Howard a Super Bowl record 99 yards for a touchdown, winning the game for Green Bay.
In the 2001 playoffs, during a blizzard against the
Oakland Raiders in the final game at
Foxboro Stadium, Vinatieri kicked a 45-yard field goal to tie the game 13-13 and send it into overtime. The Patriots then won the game on another field goal of 23 yards by Vinatieri.
In
Super Bowl XXXVI he kicked a 48-yard field goal on the final play to give the New England Patriots their first Super Bowl victory, a 20-17 win over the
St. Louis Rams. Two years later, and in an almost identical situation, he kicked a 41-yard field goal with 4 seconds left in
Super Bowl XXXVIII to boost the Patriots to another championship (after missing one field goal and having another attempt blocked in the first half). This time, the Patriots defeated the
Carolina Panthers, 32-29, making Vinatieri the first player ever to be the deciding factor in two
Super Bowl games (Vinatieri kept the balls used on both of these kicks).
Vinatieri led the NFL in scoring in 2004 with 141 points (31-for-33 on field goals, and a perfect 48-for-48 on points after touchdown or PATs). His best game of the season came against the
St. Louis Rams, against whom he scored 16 points (4 field goals, 4 PATs), and threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver
Troy Brown on a fake field goal attempt (that pass gives him a career
passer rating of 122.9).
[7] He went on to score a field goal and 3 extra points in the Patriots 24-21 win over the
Philadelphia Eagles in
Super Bowl XXXIX.
To date, Vinatieri has kicked 20 game-winning field goals with less than one minute remaining (out of 21 attempts; his lone miss came in 1999), including those mentioned in the postseason. At the conclusion of the 2005 season, he had a career field goal percentage of 81.9 percent (263/321), fifth highest in NFL history. His career long is 57 yards.
In 2004 he never missed a PAT. He was (in all fairness) 31 of 33 on his field goal attempts. I would be happy with Mason if he had those numbers.:icon_biggrin: