Word: toe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kicked footballs with his toe then, but now his employers, the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL, want him to kick with his instep, soccer style. They figure he will be a better kicker that way. They also figure that this is the time to teach him new tricks: McInally broke his leg and fractured his ankle in the College All-- Star Game last August, and has sat out the season thus...
THWACK! THUD! Jim Brynteson offered some advice. "Too much whirlwind," he said. "Use the whirwind at the beginning, not the end." McInally was still hitting the ball with his toe, not his instep...
Trying to change the attitudes of people comfortable in their middle ages is like trying to remove a deeply-imbedded splinter from your big toe: the process is inevitable, slow and always painful...
...other muffs that caused the crowd to groan in embarrassment were not Lynch's fault. There is more to the kicking game than meets the toe...
...then Lynch has only been the varsity toe for three games, so the comparisons are hardly fair. The junior from Swampscott via Exeter has amassed all of eight points so far, with a field goal and five PATs. Hardly the stats to make the opposition quake...