FRISCO, Texas – Before Dan Bailey ever picked up a football, he was kicking a soccer ball at age six.
“The only the reason I started playing football was because all my buddies at school were playing football and we didn’t have a soccer team at the school,” the Cowboys’ veteran kicker said. “I was like, all right, I’ll give a shot. And then it led into, ‘We need somebody to kick off.’ I said, ‘Well, I’ll try.’ It just kind of evolved from there.”
Bailey is now among the most accurate field goal kickers in NFL history, but he’s still a huge soccer fan.