“It’s a miserable existence being a kicker, I joke with people. It doesn’t matter how many you’ve made, how many times you’ve been able to do your job, it’s always about the next kick. The longer you play, the more you come to learn that. Every time I go on the field it’s, ‘Oh boy, here we go.’”
Where’s the glamour in that?
As a boy growing up in Dallas, Dawson idolized Randy White and Ed “Too Tall” Jones of the Cowboys “Doomsday Defense” and knew he wanted to be a football player. He tried his hand at different positions on both sides of the football – mainly linebacker.