(S24) - PT 4 - Trial by Fire

[Goat_Whisperer]

I remember when I first came over to Portland, just a fresh college kicker out of Arizona taking the next step on his career. Anyways, during the first day in Portland, we had the first practice, there I met with everybody, all the players and coaches were nice and welcomed me into the team. From there I joined the rest of the special team players and we went on to practice in our own little group. We did some kicking and punting drills, I naturally wanted to show that I can play and perform, but I was quickly reminded that the level of competition was a lot higher in DSFL than in college.

Pseudo QB at the time and still is a notoriously accurate kicker, he basically made me look like an amateur in one of the accuracy drills, we were supposed to hit the goalpost while kicking the ball from the baseline. Guess how many times I managed to hit the goalpost? Not even once. Pseudo did it ten times out of ten. At that moment I knew I was in trouble, I had a lot of work to do.

That was my introduction and little welcome to the league moment.