A kicker's failure became eternally significant
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🗓️ 14 January 2019
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| 0:00.0 | A kicker's failure became eternally significant. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Jim Denison's daily article for Monday, January 14th, 2019. |
| 0:08.0 | After last weekend's divisional round, the Chiefs, Rams, Patriots, and Saints are the last four of the NFL's 32 teams still in this year's playoffs. |
| 0:16.0 | The combined population of their cities is 1.57% of the U.S. population. In other words, as pro football fans go, |
| 0:23.6 | there are far more losers than winners this morning. In our winning isn't everything, |
| 0:28.6 | it's the only thing, culture. This is tough for those of us who live in Dallas and other |
| 0:32.2 | losing cities to wake up to. But we can learn an important life lesson from the player |
| 0:36.2 | who epitomized losing this season. |
| 0:38.6 | Cody Parky is a kicker for the Chicago Bears. He set an NFL Rookie scoring record in 2014 |
| 0:44.1 | and was named to the Pro Bowl in 2015. Earlier this season, he was named NFC Special |
| 0:49.2 | Teams Player of the Week for his performance against the Vikings. In the first round of |
| 0:53.0 | this year's playoffs, his Chicago Bears played last year's Super Bowl |
| 0:56.2 | champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. |
| 0:59.0 | At the end of the game, the Bears were poised to win as Parky lined up a 43-yard field goal. |
| 1:03.5 | He'd already kicked three field goals in the game. |
| 1:05.8 | His fourth was right down the middle, but the Eagles had called timeout just before the play |
| 1:09.5 | began. When the game resumed, Parkies's kick struck the left upright of the goalpost. |
| 1:14.7 | Then, defying all odds, struck the crossbar. |
| 1:18.0 | Then it fell backwards to the ground. |
| 1:20.0 | The Bears lost. |
| 1:21.7 | The team and their fans were devastated. |
| 1:24.0 | Only later did they learn that an Eagles player got a hand on the ball deflecting the kick. |
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