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unusual facts about Kickers, Inc.



A.F.C. Euro Kickers

Current National Assembly president Pedro Miguel González Pinzón played for Euro Kickers in the early years of the league.

Fuad Reveiz

However, Tennessee coach Johnny Majors, concerned with his kickers' performance during spring practice in 1981, offered Reveiz a scholarship just prior to fall practice.

Jeff Hostetler

However, outside of these games Hostetler's primary roles were mop-up duty and holder for kickers Raul Allegre, Bjorn Nittmo, and Matt Bahr.

Josh Scobee

Scobee's three 50+ yard field goals tied an NFL record for most 50+ yard field goals in a single game with five other kickers including Neil Rackers, Morten Anderson, and Sebastian Janikowski.

Kickers, Inc.

Created by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, the series featured a group of former professional American football players for the fictional New York Smashers team who became a group of heroes for hire, calling themselves "Kickers Inc."

Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz created the series, then titled "Mr. Magnificent and his Team Supreme", for the New Universe line before the concept of the New Universe itself had been fleshed out.

Ron Frenz - Kickers, Inc. #1-3 (November 1986-January 1987); "Choices" in D.P. 7 #21 (May 1988) Jack Magniconte back-up story

Leonel Núñez

He was one of the penalty kickers and succeeded, which brought Johor DT to the Malaysia FA Cup semi-final against Pahang FA with a 4-2 win against Selangor FA through the penalty shootout.

Paul Oßwald

In the 1937–38 season Eintracht won the championship of the Gauliga Südwest and let Borussia Neunkirchen, Wormatia Worms and Kickers Offenbach behind.

Richmond Kickers

The team's president is Richmond native, and former Kickers player, Rob Ukrop, who is also an heir to the area's Ukrop's Food Group chain.

From 2003 to 2004, Selecta 1320 AM (WVNZ) broadcast select Kickers matches in Spanish; in 2005 they broadcast all Kickers home matches.

Ted Gerela

His brothers were also professional kickers; Roy Gerela with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers and Metro Gerela briefly with the Montreal Alouettes (Metro is enshrined in the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.) In 1993, his nephew Ted Gerela was drafted in the 7th round of the 1993 CFL Draft by the BC Lions as a linebacker from Rocky Mountain College.


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