Openly gay kicker tries out for the NFL
by Cyd Zeigler | April 23, 2013
It had been months since Alan Gendreau put on a pair of cleats and stood three yards behind a football. The former Middle Tennessee State placekicker had all but left the game behind when he graduated a year ago.
Yet there he was on a Saturday morning in early April lining up for a kick, the sun beating down on the bright green field as the wind swirled around him. A half-hearted attempt to make it to the NFL was in his past; the crush of a disappointing senior season, punctuating a stellar college career, had been put in his distant memory. Now with renewed purpose, Gendreau had made a potentially game-changing decision: It’s time for him to shoot for the stars again.
After a brief instruction on how I should hold the ball for him, Gendreau looked up from his backward steps and focused downfield.
"I always focus on a spot past the goal post," he said as he readied for his first kick. "Gotta aim further than I’m trying to go."
With a deep breath, arms outstretched, and one last stare past the goal posts 40 yards away, he took three steps toward the ball and let his foot fly. The connection lifted the ball soaring, passing through the uprights and finally hitting the track 20 yards past the field, bouncing high over the distant fence.
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Plus he's a very nice looking young man.
