On Oct. 22, 2017, Dan Bailey’s career as the most accurate placekicker in NFL history began shifting from what he called “the perfect storm” of rare job security with one team to opening the 2018 season as a free agent shagging his own footballs at a high school just outside of Dallas.
“We were playing the 49ers in San Francisco,” the former Cowboy and current Viking said this week during a break in preparing to face the Bears at Soldier Field in a Sunday night battle for first place in the NFC North.
“I started the game, hit two PATs, a couple of kickoffs.