Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog » Sam Baker http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog News, trivia, and musings of interest to vintage football card collectors Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:41:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Square Toes http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2010/02/09/square-toes/ http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/2010/02/09/square-toes/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:53:03 +0000 nearmint http://www.nearmintcards.com/blog/?p=2438 Back when kickers still kicked “conventionally,” some of them wore special square-toed kicking shoes. A few of the shoes showed up on cards: here we have a 1964 Philadelphia Sam Baker, a 1966 Philadelphia Bruce Gossett, and a 1974 Topps Curt Knight.

Reading about these kickers, I discovered that each of the three attempted at least one “fair catch kick” in his career. Knight attempted two of them. According to Wikipedia, in the history of the NFL, only 21 such kicks have been attempted in regular season and playoff games. Alas, our three square-toed kickers all missed their kicks.
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