Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekchips.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!tektronix!tekchips!stevev 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 Lines: 16 >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? ******************************** Steve Vegdahl NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR Computer Research Lab. typos Tektronix, Inc. logical errors Beaverton, Oregon actions of my pet alligator ********************************