JohnTurney wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 5:24 pm
JohnTurney wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2024 5:18 pm
Gary Najman wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2024 10:29 am
I remember that even in the 1970s, some teams had kickoff specialist (in 1974 Sergio Albert with the Cardinals) and even punter Ray Guy with the Raiders (In the Ghost to the Post playoff game at Baltimore, but he had a short kickoff that Marshall Johnson returned for a TD).
Chris Gartner for the Browns was another one like Albert.
Also, Lonnie Perrin was another on -- he was effective for the Broncos for a few years, with Jim Turner not kicking off.
1974's TB percentage leaderboard is interesting
1974
rank - Player — KO — TB — TB %
1 - Mirro Roder — 41 - 8 - 19.5
2 - Roy Gerela — 58 - 11 - 19.0
3 - Ray Wersching — 48 - 8 - 16.7
4 - Tom Dempsey — 55 - 9 - 16.4
5 - John Smith — 73 - 11 - 15.1
6 - Sergio Albert — 54 - 8 - 14.8
7 - Bobby Howfield — 22 - 3 - 13.6
8 - Mark Moseley — 61 - 7 - 11.5
9 - Jim Turner — 59 - 6 - 10.2
- Chris Gartner — 49 - 5 - 10.2
11 - Ray Guy — 31 - 3 - 9.7
12 - Pat Leahy — 33 - 3 - 9.1
13 - Pete Gogolak — 48 - 3 - 6.2
14 - Nick Mike-Mayer — 35 - 2 - 5.7
- Horst Muhlmann — 35 - 2 - 5.7
16 - Jan Stenerud — 56 - 3 - 5.4
17 - Chester Marcol — 57 - 3 - 5.3
18 - John Leypoldt — 59 - 3 - 5.1
19 - Errol Mann — 61 - 3 - 4.9
20 - Bill McClard — 42 - 2 - 4.8
21 - Toni Linhart — 47 - 2 - 4.3
22 - Dave Green — 24 - 1 - 4.2
23 - Tom Wittum — 50 - 2 - 4.0
24 - Skip Butler — 52 - 2 - 3.8
25 - Fred Cox — 66 - 2 - 3.0
26 - Efren Herrera — 52 - 1 - 1.9
27 - Garo Yepremian — 64 - 0 - 0.0
28 - David Ray — 50 - 0 - 0.0
29 - George Jakowenko — 29 - 0 - 0.0
30 - George Blanda — 12 - 0 - 0.0
31 - Don Cockroft — 12 - 1 - 8.3
32 - Mike Bragg — 10 - 0 - 0.0
33 - Mac Percival — 10 - 0 - 0.0
34 - Bobby Walden — 9 - 0 - 0.0
35 - Jim Bakken — 8 - 0 - 0.0
36 - Mike Burke — 8 - 0 - 0.0
37 - Billy Van Heusen — 6 - 0 - 0.0
38 - Garry Puetz — 5 - 0 - 0.0
39 - Greg Gantt — 3 - 0 - 0.0
40 - Bruce Gossett — 3 - 0 - 0.0
41 - Dave Washington 3 - 0 - 0.0