Even though Jim Breech, the NFL’s Overseer of Overtime, last ended a game suddenly 24 years ago this Election Day in Chicago with an incorruptible 36-yard field goal on Sunday night, he has never stopped living and dying with the men who have succeeded him as the Bengals kicker.
By the time Mike Nugent kicks again in New York against the Giants on Monday night, Nov. 14, there will have been four presidents elected in seven campaigns since Breech hit his last OT winner at home, a 34-yarder that beat the Raiders and sent Dave Shula to 2-0 as Bengals head coach in the 1992 Riverfront Stadium opener.