Punters & kickers: A history of violence
With the assault on his father by recently released punter Danny Baugher, coupled with the news out of Northern Colorado that the back-up kicker stabbed the starting kicker to possibly secure a starting spot (hilarious), the Sports Hernia decided to take a look at big name kickers who have had their own brushes with violence.
Martin Gramatica
Known to enter numerous cockfights in his native Argentina. He would literally get in the ring with amped up roosters. While being pecked to near death on numerous occasions, he's always been a fighter and has tasted some glory of his own.
Bill Gramatica
Permanently left the kicking game to become a full-time cockfighting rooster.
Reggie Roby
Led a vicious honky tonk biker gang out of Nashville, Tennessee. Amazingly, his kicking translated to fighting as his back foot would remarkably never leave the ground during a fight.
Olindo Mare
Competes as a Muay Thai kickboxer in the off-season. His lethal "Dolphin Kick" has decapitated four former Thai champions.
Sean Landetta
Still runs with the Greasers after unceremoniously ousting Patrick Swayze by shoving his head into a meat grinder. To this day wears his sleeveless leather jacket under his uniform whenever the Eagles or Giants sign him to that inevitable 39-second contract.
Ray Finkle & Scott Norwood
Ray and Scott continue to run the violent "No Laces Wide" pub in Alaska where they average three patrons a year, two of whom are usually ghosts. Each night around 7pm you can find them squaring off to fight in the middle of the empty dance floor as The Dropkick Murphy's song from the Departed blares in the background while their favorite horror movies play on black & white television sets throughout the bar.
Matt Bahr
Bahr's violent background comes as no surprise, given the fact that NFL Films compiled an entire highlight reel on his tackles on kickoffs. After every road game, Bahr used to go to the stadium's parking lot, pick out the biggest and drunkest guy in the place and just beat the living shit out of him - all while wearing a helmet with one bar for the facemask. Bahr would also reportedly yell: "No Holds Bahred!" before pummeling that poor sap in the parking lot.
