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    We lost one of the NFL’s All-Time Greats Today:Tom Dempsey, the New Orleans Saints’ record-setting Kicker, GONE at age 73 due to Coronavirus/COVID-19

    April 5, 2020 - By Andy Durham

    Back in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, this was our guy…And I’m not talking about the Oakland Raiders’ punter Ray Guy, I am speaking about Tom Dempsey, the club-footed kicker, who kicked what was then, the longest field goal in National Football League history, back in 1970, when he nailed a 63-yard FG, as time expired, to give the Saints a 19–17 win over the Detroit Lions, on November 8, 1970, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. Tom Dempsey wore a custom, flat-front kicking shoe that ended where his toes were supposed to begin(no toes on his right foot).…

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