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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1061267" data-attributes="member: 17953">When I was young, I worked on punting to the point that even after I was married, my wife would get mad because I'd keep working on it instead of coming in the house to eat in the evenings. We had these huge pine trees and I worked on getting the ball up and over the trees trying to add distance. It was almost endless work. In fact, I had a half a dozen balls, and I'd kick from one side the trees go to the opposite side and round them up, and pick another distance back in relation to the trees and kick them the opposite direction. On a lot of nights, I'd kick 5 times from each end for a total of 60 punts.Anyhow, I was good enough that I was actually invited to the Cincinnati Bengals camp, back in the old days when they were in the AFL. I thought about it strongly, until the coach I'd been talking to told me how much money I'd get for being in camp, and how much I'd be paid if I made the roster. I nearly choked. I was making more as a police officer than what I would have gotten to kick a football and thanked them for the opportunity but passed. At that time, the AFL teams paid players $50 for each exhibition game, and the length of training camp was about 9 weeks. That would have been $300 pay for two months of work. Then, the yearly salary they paid punters was the league minimum, which I believe was $9,000. I was making $18,000 as a cop and had job security. It was a no-brainer decision. As for making the team, there was going to be three of us in camp to start camp so there was a chance I'd be sent packing before I even got one of those $50 checks.Two weeks later I gave away the footballs. I gave them to an area junior high school. Sometimes the dreams are nothing more than someone saying that you'd be "privileged" to make the team. That doesn't feed the wife and a little one less than 2 years old. If I'd gone for it, I would have had to quit the force and that would have been a mistake. Anyhow, I wasn't really an AFC fan. I considered them minor league.</blockquote>

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