Libertarian Librarian

If you saw Kris Brown's end-of-the-game field goal kick yesterday for the Houston Texans, you saw one of the worst field goal attempts ever attempted anywhere, by anybody, from any distance. And unlike a similarly ugly kick earlier this year by 49'ers kicker Joe Nedney, there weren't 40+ mph winds swirling around Tennesee yesterday.

Straight-- well, actually very crooked-- banana hook left with the game on the line. The kick nearly reached the sidelines. It certainly went no where near the uprights. To see video of the actual kick go here. Then click on the Titans/Texans game. The kick is about 4/5ths of the way through the video.

The miss cost the Texans a chance to win in overtime and to win their second game of the year. This is the third week in a row the Texans have found new and interesting ways to lose, and their 1-12 record now virtually assures them the first pick in the draft-- although San Francisco is stubbornly refusing to win their third game.

Which is the evil genius part of the question. Could Kris Brown have hooked that kick that badly on purpose to help ensure that Reggie Bush, perhaps the most coveted college football player ever, is wearing a bull skull on his helmut next year? It seems unlikely, but seriously the kick was so bad as to make you wonder-- guys that make a living kicking the football just don't miss that badly.

Unless they want to. Or were instructed to.

All of which is pure paranoid speculation, and since the Packers actually went out and beat somebody last night, mostly irrelevant to me. Green Bay will not be getting Reggie Bush this April. But, if I were in San Francisco, I think I'd have a huge Kris Brown effigy burning party after yesterday.