NFL Kickers Fascinate, Infuriate and Have Some Wondering If They’re Necessary

November 18, 2016   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

This is the world of a kicker.
It's full of pressure and a lack of appreciation for the position. It's also full of pranks. Few players have more opportunities—more time—to create trouble than kickers. So it wasn't a surprise when former kicker Lawrence Tynes was approached by his then-Giants teammates to target quarterbacks Eli Manning, Tim Hasselbeck and Anthony Wright for some good-natured mischief.
Tynes agreed and went about letting the air out of the driver's side tires of each of their cars. He then left a bicycle pump taped to the doors of each of their cars so they could pump the tires back up.
Tynes thought no one had discovered he was the deflator. But the quarterbacks found out and retaliated. When Tynes came to his car on the last day of camp in Albany, New York, his entire car was caked, bumper-to-bumper, with Vaseline.
"Took me about six hours to even make it safe to drive," said Tynes, who can now laugh about the scene.
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