The Noid
Avoid me!
The Philadelphia Eagles are holding a contest where, from August 18th to October 20th, they are randomly selecting one fan each day (64 total) to compete for a chance to kick a FG worth $20,000 at haltime of the Eagles-Titans game. The competition will take place at the Eagles practice facility on November 1st.
I entered a few days ago and found out I was selected as that day's winner.
Here's what I figure:
Any advice? Do I pony up a few hundred bucks on a kicking net and kicking cleats?
I entered a few days ago and found out I was selected as that day's winner.
Here's what I figure:
- I've got 2 months to prepare, which gives me a good advantage over the last 10 or so people selected in mid-October
- There will be another 10 that are no-shows or have eligibility issues
- Probably another 15 of the winners will be old and/or out-of-shape that will only skip groundballs toward the goal posts
- At least 5 more will be women with no athletic ability
- That leaves about 24 men/women as legit competition
- Everyone got 2 kicks from 20 yards, if you made one, you moved on
- Next kick was from 25, and so on
- If no one made it with their two kicks, remaining kickers got an equal amount of tries until someone made it and was the "winner"
- All kicks were done using kicking stands
- Just turned 40, but in good, ahtletic shape
- Eat healthy and workout regularly (I am a FBG after all)
- 30-45 minutes of cardio 7 days/week
- 30 minutes of weights 6 days/week
- My son is the kicker for his JV team and I took him to Ray Guy's kicking camp last year, took home a DVD and other materials about drills and other techniques that he works on; they only do kick-offs (no FGs at this level) but he's been trying to get a jump on good FG and Punting skills for when he's older
- We went out yesterday and, with no prep, I hit about 50% from 20, made a couple from 25 and was very close to making a 30; about 25 kicks total and only a slight bit of soreness in my kicking leg today
- The biggest stage I previously performed on was 16 years ago at an NBA game in front of 20,000 people when I was selected to take an almost half-court shot, and air-balled it
Any advice? Do I pony up a few hundred bucks on a kicking net and kicking cleats?