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How one man’s ‘pipe dream’ created an influx of Australian punters — including Bears rookie Tory Taylor — in the US

LONDON — Standing on the sideline at the 5-yard line with his back to the field, Nathan Chapman could boomerang kick a football over his head and — get this — through the uprights at the Green Bay Packers practice fields.

John Bonamego, the Packers special teams coordinator at the time, swears it happened.

He witnessed it. With amazement.

And Bonamego believes if Chapman — who was a 28-year-old former Australian rules football player when he was on the Packers offseason roster in 2004 — had started his NFL journey sooner, he no doubt would have made it as a punter.