Former Super Bowl hero Adam Vinatieri explains the art of making a clutch kick…
Yesterday morning, we visited with former Patriots K Adam Vinatieri and checked in on his thoughts regarding his old team. He’s a member of the Colts, but he still has some feelings on the Pats.
In addition, I spoke with him about the starter now, Stephen Gostkowski. He’s just kicked one game-winner, but Gostkowski says he’s ready. Is he? We’ll see.
But Vinatieri...
Via The Rap Sheet
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8 days ago
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Film links Pats' first Super Bowl win, Gen. Custer
(Eds: APNewsNow. With AP Photos.) By LYNNE TUOHY Associated Press The New England Patriots' Super Bowl lore dates back well beyond the team's first championship a decade ago on Adam Vinatieri's clutch kick with seconds to go.
A New Hampshire attorney with a passion for filmmaking takes it back to 1876 and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Alfred Catalfo has made a 15-minute...
Via AP on Fox
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8 days ago
Former Patriots K Adam Vinatieri says: “I want my buddies to have success.”
Yesterday, I stopped and chatted for a while with former Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri. The Super Bowl hero is in town because, well, he lives here and plays for the Colts.
But he was also repping Under Armour’s baselayer, which keeps him cool and light (he swears). He was also talking about how during Super Bowl XLVI, @UnderArmour, will be asking trivia questions and giving their...
Via The Rap Sheet
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9 days ago
For every Super hero, there’s always a goat
INDIANAPOLIS — When they sign up for this they all do so with the glory in mind. No one considers the alternative.
They dream of being Adam Vinatieri watching the game-winning field goal float through the uprights as time runs out and bathing in the confetti being released from the sky...
Via NY Post
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9 days ago
Pats, Giants kickers wandered onto Super Bowl path
Call them accidental Superheroes in the making. Or, if they miss, Super-something-elses.
Both Super Bowl kickers have taken uncommon paths to the title game, essentially stumbling into a job that often decides titles and legacies for better or worse. New York's Lawrence Tynes and New England's Stephen Gostkowski know one of them could be the first player celebrating - or...
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9 days ago
Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski on being the potential hero or goat: “It’s something that you sign up for”
It’d be hard to understate the importance of having a competent kicker come playoff time, especially when you’re the New England Patriots.
Twice did Adam Vinatieri kick a game winning field goal in the Super Bowl. His first came in Super Bowl XXXVI to lift the Patriots over the St. Louis Rams and again in Super Bowl XXXVIII, two years later, to left the Patriots over the Carolina...
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9 days ago
Adam Vinatieri's Kick In Super Bowl XXXVI Started Boston Sports Resurgence
No one could have seen this coming. Before Adam Vinatieri’s last-second field goal split the uprights to defeat the St. Louis Rams to give the New England Patriots their first Super Bowl victory 10 years ago, Boston fans waited a long time for a championship. Larry Bird and the 1986 Celtics took down the Houston Rockets in six games to give the C’s their 16th championship. Things...
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9 days ago
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9 days ago
Indianapolis Colts: The History Behind Their Super Bowl XLI Championship Title
The 2005-06 Indianapolis Colts were not the Colts that everyone was used to. They put up big numbers but the wins were not coming as easily as they did in years past. Seven of their first nine regular season games were decided by seven points or less and Indianapolis would lose four of their final seven games. But numbers aside, they did finish atop the AFC South.
The start...
Via Football Nation
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10 days ago
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10 days ago
Memo to Rams from Wes Welker: Win games and you can openly mock your fans
As any respectable St. Louis Rams fan knows, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and the rest of New England Patriots are pure evil. Belichick is a cheater. Brady was obviously conceived in a petri dish in some weird Gattaca-like experiment. Adam Vinatieri had a robotic leg engineered at MIT. We get it. Now on the verge [...]
Via JoeSportsFan
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10 days ago
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10 days ago
Super Bowl Trivia CT Style
Super Bowl media day has concluded and it is time to get serious about Super Bowl XLVI. So stop what you doing because I'm about to ruin your day with some Cliff Clavin Super Bowl knowledge. You can thank me later as you rattle off these futile football facts Sunday at your Super Bowl party.
CT's Super Seven:
1.) Who is the New York Giants backup quarterback?
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
Colts team up with Verizon for charity
It's easy to get lost in the hoopla of the Super Bowl but some very good things are happening for Indianapolis as a result of some great partnerships to improve the community. Specifically, our friends at Verizon have been instrumental in helping Colts players bring some much needed publicity to worthwhile causes:
Indianapolis area charities earned $1,000 grant donations today...
Via The Colts Authority
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
The top SB moments of the last decade
With the big game just around the corner, it's time for us to look back at some of the best moments from the Super Bowls over the past ten years. This list doesn't need much in the way of build-up, so here we go.
Adam Vinatieri gives the Patriots their first Super Bowl victory:
Randle El Throws a dagger against the Seahawks:
David Tyree uses his...
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
Least Discussed Matchup May Be Most Important in Super Bowl XLVI
There are many matchups that are discussed and dissected during Super Bowl week but one that’s rarely looked at is the kicker. Kickers are the most disrespected of football players. In fact, many people go as far as to consider them not even football players. But many times the game lands on the foot of the smallest player on the field.
Being a kicker in the NFL is the...
Via Rant Sports
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13 days ago
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13 days ago
Greatest Super Bowl Plays
Over 45 years of Super Bowls have created numerous memorable plays. From superb catches to long kickoff returns, from made field goals to missed field goals, on the biggest stage, with everyone watching, some players rise above the rest to make spectacular plays.
Based on impressiveness, significance, and time of the game it occurred, here are the ten greatest Super Bowl Plays...
Via Football Nation
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13 days ago
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13 days ago
Capturing the Moment
Seize the day. A phrase that is meant to move the listener to take action, capture what’s in their grasp. Words intended to motivate the audience to secure the desired outcome of a given opportunity.
Over the course of history, countless people have squandered those chances, letting windows of time close right before their eyes, leaving them looking painfully through the bars...
Via Wildcat Blue Nation
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19 days ago
The Worst AFC Championship Ever: A Steeler Fan's Guide
This is probably the worst thing anyone in Steeler Nation could have asked for. Instead of the battle of the loveable underdogs in Texans vs Broncos, we get the Ratbirds and the... Gay...triots. Something. This game is going to suck because no matter who wins, Steeler fans lose.If you decide to even watch the AFC Championship (and we don't blame you if you don't) you...
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23 days ago
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23 days ago
The Worst AFC Championship Ever: A Steeler Fan's Guide
This is probably the worst thing anyone in Steeler Nation could have asked for. Instead of the battle of the loveable underdogs in Texans vs Broncos, we get the Ratbirds and the... Gay...triots. Something. This game is going to suck because no matter who wins, Steeler fans lose.If you decide to even watch the AFC Championship (and we don't blame you if you don't) you...
Via Blitzburgh Blog
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23 days ago
Friday Night Flashback
Tonight's
Friday Night Flashback looks back 10 years ago to the 2002 AFC
Divisional game between the Oakland Raiders and the New England
Patriots. This game actually took place 10 years ago yesterday, but we
do Friday Night Flashbacks not Thursday Night Flashbacks. This game has
been deemed one of the best playoff games in football history, with "The Snow
Bowl...
Via The Nosebleeds
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23 days ago
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23 days ago
Tuck Rule Game 10th Anniversary
It was exactly 10 years ago that the New England Patriots faced the Oakland Raiders in a snowstorm now known as the “Tuck Rule game”. That win propelled the Patriots to their first of four Super Bowl appearances of the new millennium and was the start of a dynasty. That AFC divisional playoff would be the last game played at the old Foxboro Stadium and one of the most memorable...
Via Rant Sports
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
A Decade of Tuck
If you woke me, or for that matter any New England Patriots fan, up on January 19, 2002 and said this game you will watch tonight is the pivotal game in franchise history. This game will determine the next ten years of the franchise I, as well as those other fans, would have laughed in your face.
If you told me on that day that the kid running the offense and wearing #12 would...
Via Sox and Dawgs
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
'Tuck Rule Game' turns 10
---Today marks the 10th anniversary of the “Tuck Rule Game’’ which saw referee Walt Coleman controversially overturn Tom Brady’s fumble to give the ball back to New England, setting up the Patriots’ 16-13 overtime victory over Oakland and igniting a dominant New England run
Oakland cornerback Charles Woodson stripped the ball from Brady in the fourth quarter and linebacker...
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24 days ago
SNOWPOCALYPSE NOW
10 classic snowy NFL games
Of course there have been hundreds of NFL games played in horrible snowy conditions. Of course you guys are going to drill us for leaving out certain classics such as the Dolphins-Cowboys Thanksgiving Day classic. Feel free. However, what blogger went into the Google newspaper archives to bring you the 1932 game between the Bears and Packers snow bowl? This one. Best snow team...
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January 13, 2012
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January 13, 2012
Doug Williams' Historic Super Bowl, Music City Miracle Highlight Playoff Memories of Current Patriots
FOXBORO, Mass. -- Now is the time when any given play can turn into one of the NFL's most iconic, everlasting images. The playoffs have delivered "The Guarantee," "The Drive," "Wide Right," "The Immaculate Reception" and so many other moments. Even the nameless plays -- Adam Vinatieri's winning field goals, Tom Brady's game-winning drives, the birth and death of dynasties -- can...
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January 12, 2012
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January 12, 2012
Colts move on from special teams coach Rychleski
Hot News for K Adam Vinatieri
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January 04, 2012
VanderJacked Week 16
As the weather gets colder and the offenses slow down, a real premium is put on the kicker. This week the man whose foot won the day was none other than Adam Vinatieri, Mike Vanderjagt’s sworn enemy. Vinatieri led the hapless Colts to their second victory with a 19-17 win over the Texans. Vinatieri kicked 4 fg’s in what may be the worst win ever!
The problem with this...
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December 30, 2011
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December 30, 2011
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