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Football and faith: Bucs' kicker overcomes odds, club foot

TAMPA — “Run, Forrest, run!”

Some of the other children teased him. He was the boy in leg braces, the boy with the club foot, the boy who went through all those surgeries — through all those doubters. But always that smile.

“I was oblivious,” Kyle Brindza said. “Nothing fazed me. Not anything from anyone. I was always playing street hockey, soccer, anything. I was going to do what I wanted to do.”

And become an NFL kicker.

Last Sunday in New Orleans, the Bucs rookie made his first NFL field goal, followed by three more.