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BERKELEY — On a football field next to Cal’s Memorial Stadium, with an NFL kicker watching, my 36-yard field goal sailed through the uprights.
“If I coach him, he’s gonna take my job,” said the kicker, Giorgio Tavecchio of the Oakland Raiders.
My objective wasn’t to take any jobs, as if there was even a chance of that. My objective was to learn what really goes into kicking field goals, every intricacy leading up to the seconds-long sequence that makes kickers a hero or a goat.