Thursday Night Football: Seahawks vs. Rams statistical preview

Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY SportsEarlier this year, Johnny Hekker kicked the longest punt in Super Bowl history. It was an iffy punt shanked a bit off Hekker’s foot, but by virtue of falling well short of rookie return man Riley McCarron, it was able to bounce. And bounce it did, first striking at the Los Angeles Rams’ 44 before skittering and sidewinding into Patriots’ territory. Hekker’s punt did not skip on forever either, though it seemed to take heart, or did it renew fear? from its encounter with the turf; but despite this urging each bounce was less, like that shortness of breath which grows the greater, the greater effort is required—and poom . . . . . . . . poom . . . poompoompoompumm was its heart’s register and all it was.

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