Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!kaufman From: kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: long punt Message-ID: <13000007@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 12:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.13000007 Posted: Mon Oct 15 12:13:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:42:54 EDT References: <888@ihuxe.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxe:-88800:uiucdcs:13000007:000:864 Nf-From: uiucdcs!kaufman Oct 15 11:13:00 1984 [Oops - I must be in the first line ... He missed the bug!] > I seem to recall a game on TV several years ago when a (Jets?) punter > punted for 98 yards. The line of scrimmage was his team's 1, and the > ball rolled and was downed on the opponents' 1. An unbreakable record > for NET yardage on a punt, no? It happened in 1969 when the Jets lost to Denver in (I believe) the thin air of Mile High Stadium. The punter for New York was Steve O'Neill. For net yardage, it's true that the record can't be broken by more than a couple of feet - unless playing on a Canadian field. What bugs me is that triviaists regard this as the NFL record, although it actually took place in an AFL game. Sure, the record books were updated to include pre-merger exploits, but does anyone know who really had the longest punt in an NFL game? Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)