Long before Younghoe Koo took the NFL by storm, well before Matt Bryant easily broke the franchise scoring record, and a full decade-plus before Morten Andersen grabbed the crown as greatest kicker in team history, Mick Luckhurst was the guy. The British-born kicker spent seven seasons in Atlanta in the 1980s and became the franchise’s leading scorer before he hung up his cleats, a mark he held until 2000, when Andersen surpassed him.
When you have two kickers as great as Andersen and Bryant in your team’s history and you played almost 40 years ago, your name isn’t exactly going to come up in conversation among younger fans.