There isn’t another job like it in all of professional sports. Outside the locker room, there have been a thousand jokes aimed at place-kickers, all of them poking fun at the fact that on rosters stuffed with behemoths, it’s the guys who look like golf pros who often decide who wins and who loses.
On Dec. 3, 2005, Jay Feely did a smart thing: He didn’t tune in to “Saturday Night Live” that night. So he missed a bit called “The Long Flight Home: The Jay Feely Story,” with comedian Dane Cook playing Feely, in the hours after Feely missed three potentially game-winning field goals the previous week for the Giants, in Seattle.