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The ball was snapped, the hold was perfect, Zuerlein stepped through the ball, launching it high and fast. It was long enough, but the 64-yarder tailed off to the left, a foot wide.
Oh, yeah, and get this. The kid was mad that he missed it. Genuinely ticked off, like he's actually done better than that before, which by the way he has. In college last season, he made an NCAA Division II-record 21 consecutive field goals, including nine from 50 yards-plus.
"I go out there expecting to make every single kick," Zuerlein said. "I had the distance, but I didn't connect on it. I'd like to make every kick, and when I don't, it's kind of disappointing. But other than that, it was a good day."
So, after seeing him nearly make a 59-yard kick on Saturday and after witnessing a few 60-yarders in practice, the next logical question for Zuerlein was just how far has he kicked a football.
[hil]"Longest ever? Oh, it was a 74-yarder with probably about 60 miles of wind behind me in a pre-game warmup before a game last year[/hil]," he said. "Without the wind? Probably about 66 or 67."
But let's go back to that 74-yarder, I said. Seriously, you made a field goal from seventy-four yards!!?
"Yeah," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "But it was with a lot of wind. A lot of wind."
Well, I don't care if he kicked it in a wind tunnel with gale-force winds churning at his back and the football was strapped to a hang-glider. Normal people can't kick a football 74 yards under any condition.
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