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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: long punt
Message-ID: <170@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 12:22:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekchips.170
Posted: Fri Oct 12 12:22:47 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 08:09:39 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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>One would expect to get good field position when you force the opponents
>to punt from the middle of their own end zone. Not so as the Bear punter
>hit one for 87 yards which was downed on the 4 yard line. It would have gone
>10 more yards if it wasn't stopped.

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?

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