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Legend and Legacy: Adding impact for kickers

Recently in San Francisco, National Football League owners voted to make the first significant change in the extra point in decades.

The NFL went to the two-point conversion in 1994, and the American Football League had it in 1960, but there had been precious little change (excepting the moving of the goal posts to the back of the end zone) in the decades since the 1920's.

Yet now the placekicker is front and center in NFL conversation at this time.

But there was a game, a moment in Denver Broncos history in which the kicker stood taller than at any other time in franchise history, and it was in one of the greatest—and most important—games in franchise history.