Iowa State kicker Cole Netten and the other specialists play plenty of FIFA video game soccer during their downtime in camp. File Photo by Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune
If an Iowa State specialist is needed their meeting room is the first spot to check.Then it’s the nearest TV with a video game console.
Camp is different for punters and kickers. It’s not as taxing as for position players and they end up with plenty of free time. They fill it with soccer video games. Lots of soccer video games.
“There is a lot of FIFA that is played in the locker room in between meetings because the offense and the defense meets a little longer than we do for all the plays they have to know,” kicker Cole Netten said.