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The NEXT: Hotbed for Kickers?

By Ted Bauer

Friday, November 21, 2008

Remember the Adam Sandler ditty "Lonesome Kicker?" Kinda funny, but it was a little hard to watch it because it's legitimately true. Kickers are ostracized! (We think; we don't have a lot of friends in the NFL, honestly. Or at all.) Now imagine if you were a kicker and from another country. Double whammy. Well, meet Long Ding. On Sunday, he'll kick for Dean College in the Graphic Edge Bowl in Cedar Falls, Iowa (famous natives: Kurt Warner and Annabeth Gish). He will be the first graduate of th ...

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