1st pele placekicker (answered)

[flotsamnjetsam]

Who was the 1st soccer-style placekicker in the NFL?

Need the player, the team he played for, and the year he began the soccer-style kicks.

[Alkaholik]

Time: 33.76 seconds

1964 – Pete Gogolak, Buffalo Bills<br><br><span class=gensmall>Accepted as answer by flotsamnjetsam on Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:21 pm EST.</span>

[Scotsman88]

Time: 37.99 seconds

Pete Gogolak 1964 for bills

[Dr. Duran Duran]

Time: 42.27 seconds

Hungary's Pete Gogolak actually was the first soccer-style kicker in pro football; he joined the AFL's Buffalo Bills in 1964. While Gogolak had some success, going on to play for 11 seasons with the Bills and Giants, it was a young Norwegian ski jumper who really put soccer-style kicking on the map.

[flotsamnjetsam]

1964-Pete Gogolak of the Buffalo Bills.

[redragon19]

Pete Gogolak, pro football's first soccer-style kicker, Bills, 1964