Janikowski struck the ball with a thud, sending his kicks so high it was difficult to tell at times whether the ball went through or not. Spring practice stalled for a moment as the players stopped to take a look at the bald kid with the accent, who was blasting the football like some Polish Paul Bunyan.
”Every time he kicked one, it sounded like somebody fired a gun out there,” Seabreeze coach Kerry Kramer said. “We had 115, 120 kids out on the practice field, and it got so quiet, you could hear a pin drop.