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The_Philster
09-05-2004, 08:09 AM
Next Sunday will mark a number of milestones at Ralph Wilson Stadium: Mike Mularkey's regular-season debut as the 14th head coach of the Bills (I'm counting Lou Saban twice; like Grover Cleveland he served two terms, but non-consecutive), Willis McGahee's first appearance while real NFL bullets fly, and the commissioning of new offensive line coach Jim McNally to make chicken salad out of chicken scratch - but we're forgetting something else.
It will be the 40th anniversary of the introduction of soccer-style kicking into American professional football.

It happened here in Buffalo, with Bills rookie Pete Gogolak as the pioneer....more (http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20040905/1017067.asp)