But he has kicked once in a baseball-football venue and it was, on all days, the 2008 opener in the old Miami stadium when he had to deal with kicking off dirt. He doesn’t expect problems in Sunday’s opener (4:25 p.m.-Cincinnati’s-Channel 12 against the Raiders.
Bengals special teams coach Darrin Simmons directed “dirty,” workouts this past Sunday and Monday when Nugent kicked off the “warning track,” of cinders and clay lining one of the practice fields.
“I think it’s going to be a lot better out there than on the warning track,” Nugent said. “On the warning track my foot would slip out.