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unusual facts about special teams



Ade Jimoh

On September 11, 2007, the Chicago Bears signed Jimoh to assist with special teams, due to the promotion of kick returner Danieal Manning to take the place of injured starting safety Mike Brown.

Danny McCray

New special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia changed his role, which affected his tackle production, finishing sixth on the team with 8.

Farmington, Missouri

Kyle Richardson, former National Football League punter and Member of the NFL Super Bowl XXXV champions the Baltimore Ravens (special teams)


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1970 Cincinnati Bengals season

Kicker Horst Muhlmann added 15 points on five field goals, and four extra points by Muhlmann completed the special teams onslaught.

2007 North Texas Mean Green football team

New defensive coordinator Ron Mendoza, new offensive coordinator Todd Ford and new special teams Robert Drake all come with Dodge from Carroll High School where they coached the Dragons to 5 state titles.

2010 USC Trojans football team

Erik Folk, who hit the game-winning field goal for Washington, was named Pac-10 special teams player of the week.

Al Roberts

After one-year stints on the college staffs at Purdue University (1986) and the University of Wyoming (1987) as running backs and special teams coach, he joined Buddy Ryan with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1988.

Alonzo Jackson

In the National Championship game, the Sugar Bowl vs. Virginia Tech, Jackson contributed one solo tackle on special teams.

Baltimore City College football

He also brought in young aggressive special teams coaches Joe Brune, Bob Patzwall, Mel Filler, and Ed Novak; all of whom would become head coaches later in their careers with Brune coaching the Loyola Dons for more than 25 years.

Beach Spikers

In World Tour mode, you take a user-created team through a tournament, earning points as you go that allow you to increase the stats of your players and also unlock special teams and players, including one based on the character Ulala from Sega's Space Channel 5 series.

Blair Walsh

On November 24 againist the Green Bay Packers Walsh got 4/4 Field Goals and 5 Kickoff touchbacks and was named NFC special teams player of the week also Walsh tied Gary Anderson record.

Bob Casullo

But converted safety Jordan "Big Play Babs" Babineaux forced a fumble on special teams which was recovered by long snapper J. P. Darche to seal the victory in St. Louis.

Casullo had lost former Special Teams Pro Bowler Alex Bannister to another broken collar bone, and the other injuries to WRs, LBs and DB began to eat into his personnel.

Bob Valesente

He was the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks football team from 1986 to 1987 and has also served as an assistant football coach in the National Football League with the Baltimore Colts (secondary and special teams, 1982–1983), Pittsburgh Steelers (linebackers coach, 1990–1991), Green Bay Packers (linebackers coach, 1992–1994; defensive backs, 1995–1998), and Carolina Panthers (defensive backs, 1999).

In February 1982, Valesente was hired by the Baltimore Colts as the secondary and special teams coach under new head coach Frank Kush.

Brandon Banks

He was named the Special Teams Player of the Week for Week 18 of the 2013 CFL season for returning a missed field goal for the game-winning touchdown to clinch home-field advantage in the Eastern Semifinals.

Brandon McGowan

He recorded two special teams tackles in his first game back against the Miami Dolphins before being placed on injured reserve with an Achilles injury the next day.

Bucky Richardson

He played mostly in mop-up duty and even saw action on special teams during his first two seasons in the league, but when Oilers' QB Warren Moon was traded to the Vikings, Houston's quarterback position was up for grabs.

Byron Westbrook

In addition, he was a three-time All-Atlantic Central Football Conference first-team selection at defensive back and was a two-time first-team selection on special teams.

Dallas Cowboys

The most serious injuries were special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, who suffered fractured cervical vertebrae and had surgery to stabilize fractured vertebrae in his neck, and Rich Behm, the team's 33-year-old scouting assistant, who was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed.

David Lofton

Lofton then signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League as a free agent on September 12 and dressed for four games (four starts) of the 2007 CFL season making 17 defensive tackles, 1 special teams tackle, and 1 quarterback sack.

Dennis Erickson

After the season, Erickson, who had been told by new owner Paul Allen that he would return in 1998 had to fire longtime friend and assistant the special teams coach Dave Arnold and replace him with Pete Rodriguez.

Doug Mallory

Mallory has two brothers that are currently football coaches: Older brother Mike, is the special teams coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL, and younger brother, Curt, is the secondary coach at Michigan.

Duke Pettijohn

In 2007, Pettijohn finished with 43.5 tackles (35 solo) and led the team in special teams tackles with 16.5 while also tallying the second-most sacks (6.0) and tackles for loss (7.0).

Endwell, New York

Mike Dunham (longtime NHL goalie, now Goalie coach for the NY Islanders), Isaiah Kacyvenski (Starter for the Seahawks for 5 years-and was Special Teams captain for Seattle during their most recent Super Bowl appearance).

Hue Jackson

In the spring of 1991, he coached the running backs, receivers and special teams for the World League’s inaugural year champion London Monarchs.

Javier Glatt

On August 4, 2009, Javier Glatt was moved to back up and special teams when the Lions signed free agent JoJuan Armour, the former starting linebacker for the Calgary Stampeders.

Jeff Genyk

On January 23, 2013, Genyk was announced as the special teams coordinator and running backs coach at the University of Nevada under new head coach Brian Polian.

From 2010-2012 Genyk served as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach at the University of California under head coach Jeff Tedford.

John Leijten

Leijten's coaching skills were noticed by Jeff Reinebold, then the defensive backs and special teams coach at the NFL Europa Amsterdam Admirals (now WR coach at the Southern Methodist University).

Jon Heacock

The next two seasons, he was a graduate assistant on Bo Schembechler's staff at the University of Michigan, where he worked with both the defensive backs and special teams during a stretch in which Michigan won two Big Ten Conference titles and the 1989 Rose Bowl.

Lafayette Leopards football

Costanzo was named to Sports Illustrated's All-Pro team on special teams while playing with the Cleveland Browns.

Lebanon, Oregon

Eric Castle (1970-), former NFL safety and special teams player for the San Diego Chargers

Mike Bass

Bass scored the only touchdown for the Redskins in that game as a special teams player, returning a botched pass attempt from Miami Dolphins placekicker Garo Yepremian after a blocked field goal 49 yards for a fumble return touchdown, making him the last man drafted by legendary coach Vince Lombardi to score in a Super Bowl game.

Mike Wagner

For a short time, Mike Wagner also served as an assistant coach on the Pine-Richland High School (Gibsonia, PA) coaching staff, mainly working with the defensive backs and special teams.

Mike Westhoff

Mike Westhoff is the former special teams coach for the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Naufahu Tahi

During that year, he was listed number one on the Vikings depth chart and played several games at fullback blocking for Adrian Peterson as well as playing on special teams.

Ronald Darby

Darby attended Potomac High School in Oxon Hill, Maryland, where he played as much as six different positions on offense, defense, and special teams.

Sam Paulescu

Paulescu’s special teams coach at Fullerton was Jim Wren, who was USC’s punter in 1996 when Mike Riley was the offensive coordinator.

Super Bowl II

On special teams, defensive back Rodger Bird led the AFL with 612 punt return yards and added another 148 yards returning kickoffs.

Terry Bowden

Bowden is a son of former Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden and a brother of Tommy Bowden, former head football coach at Clemson University, and Jeff Bowden, the former offensive coordinator at Florida State who serves as Terry's special teams coordinator at Akron.

Travis Thomas

In 2006 he was moved to the position of linebacker because of his speed and physicality with Coach Charlie Weis's blessing and was appointed captain of special teams.

Trumann, Arkansas

Elbert Shelley – all-star special teams player for the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL.