A suited-up Cundiff watches as the Ravens and Dolphins warm up before the Nov. 7 game. The Ravens won, 26-10.
tough for opposing kick returners,” said Ravens kicking coach Randy Brown. “Our opponents start deeper in their own end. So Billy really is a defensive weapon, too.” Beaming with confidence, Cundiff
says, “Every time I go out there now, I’m feeling good.” In a tight game at home against the
Browns, Cundiff came on the field to attempt a 51-yarder, a distance that he knew some observers would view as a test of his ability to make a long kick. A breeze required extra calculations that day. With the wind blowing left to right across the goalposts, Cundiff decided to aim for the farthest left quadrant be- tween the goalposts, quite close to the left goalpost. If the wind pushed the ball right, as he expected, the kick would end up straight down the middle. He took a last look at the flags. Still
swirling left to right. Ready. When the ball left his foot, it felt
good. A kick that felt so good was al- most always a made kick. But in the next instant, Cundiff saw something that struck him as extraordinary. He had hit the ball so hard, so pure, that it was fighting off the wind, an oblong missile boring in on that left quadrant. “I thought, It’s not supposed to do that, not with that wind,” he recalls. The ball hit the left goalpost. No good. “You have strange kicks that you just can’t explain sometimes,” he says. “Things like that just happen.” Two Sundays later, sitting in the
stands with their infant son at the Broncos game, Nicole Cundiff feels the uncertainty pressing down on her. Other spectators offer congratulations on her husband’s earlier field goal. But that kick is already long behind her. Her neck perpetually craning, she brac- es herself for the moment when he will need to jog out and prove himself wor- thy yet again. “It’s always about the next kick.”
Michael Leahy is a Washington Post staff writer. He can be reached at
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