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Originally Posted by YDFL Commish
Didn't we hear from a liquored up kicker after that game ???
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Originally Posted by njcoltfan
Wasn't that the Pittsburg game, after he pushed the kick wide right ???
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No, the wide-right miss against the Steelers was from the 2005 season divisional playoff game. That wound up being Vanderjagt's last games as the Colts' kicker.
The idiot-kicker getting liquored up incident was from just after the conclusion of the 2002 season, a few weeks after the Colts were throttled by the New York Jets in the wildcard playoff game by a score of 41-0.
Vanderjagt continued to be the Colts' kicker for 3 more full seasons after the idiot-kicker fiasco from 2003 through 2005, until the miss against the Steelers wound up being the final nail in his coffin as a Colts player ...... Manning was angry about what Vanderjagt had said about both he and Coach Tony Dungy, but to his credit he didn't insist that the Colts replace Vanderjagt as the team's kicker because of those incendiary comments. Peyton wanted to win first and foremost, so he kissed and made up with Vanderjagt because Vanderjagt was the most accurate kicker in the history of professional football at that time ...... Manning did not want to throw out the baby with the dirty bathwater.
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