PUNTERS
Don D
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OK, it won't be long before the smell of fresh cut football fields and the NFL and your favorite college conference games. Who's the best punter ever? Ray Guy, who played for the Raiders. He launched a 93 yard punt that traveled 115 yards. He kicked a 61 yard field goal in a snow storm. Playing safety, he hit an opponent so hard they had to stop the game to pick the guy's teeth out of the grass. He threw a football 80 yards. He threw fastballs as fast as Nolan Ryan ever threw. He pitched a no-hitter six weeks after knee surgery. He threw a softball 340 feet in an intramural track meet. Think about that.
He drove the green on a 375 yard, par-4 first hole at the Hattiesburg, MS country club when rain had soaked the course. He beat the Chinese at Ping Pong.
Ray Guy hit the Superdome gondola with a punt in the Pro Bow. The gondola, which hung over the field, was supposed to be out of play, but Guy's kick hit it on the way up. He said he did it just for kicks. Guy will be inducted into the national High School Sports Hall of Fame Monday in San Diego. His coach at Thompson, Georgia High School will be there. In high school, he averaged 52 yards a punt.
The University of Southern Mississippi coaches recruited Guy away from Bear Bryant and Alabama. Bryant told Ray he would only be a kicking specialist there, that his kicking was a weapon too valuable to risk elswhere. USM promised he would play either quarterback or safety.
Ray Guy, the best punter in the history of the NFL was a star basketball, baseball and track star in High school, and his records have never been approached.
Having been a star at Southern Mississippi, Ray Guy came along just a few years before a guy named Bret Favre played for the same Southern Miss Team. Go Eagles!!
He drove the green on a 375 yard, par-4 first hole at the Hattiesburg, MS country club when rain had soaked the course. He beat the Chinese at Ping Pong.
Ray Guy hit the Superdome gondola with a punt in the Pro Bow. The gondola, which hung over the field, was supposed to be out of play, but Guy's kick hit it on the way up. He said he did it just for kicks. Guy will be inducted into the national High School Sports Hall of Fame Monday in San Diego. His coach at Thompson, Georgia High School will be there. In high school, he averaged 52 yards a punt.
The University of Southern Mississippi coaches recruited Guy away from Bear Bryant and Alabama. Bryant told Ray he would only be a kicking specialist there, that his kicking was a weapon too valuable to risk elswhere. USM promised he would play either quarterback or safety.
Ray Guy, the best punter in the history of the NFL was a star basketball, baseball and track star in High school, and his records have never been approached.
Having been a star at Southern Mississippi, Ray Guy came along just a few years before a guy named Bret Favre played for the same Southern Miss Team. Go Eagles!!
Comments
Without a doubt, Ray was a very gifted all-round athlete.