{"id":21605,"date":"2013-08-12T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=21605"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:44:49","slug":"trick-kicking-norwegian-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/trick-kicking-norwegian-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick kicking, Norwegian style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmqb.si.com\/2013\/08\/12\/andy-reid-peter-king-monday-morning-quarterback\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter King<\/a> in his Monday Morning Quarterback column has lots of nice things to say about this young man:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the sheer story-telling of it, Havard Rugland has to be this morning\u2019s winner. He\u2019ll tell his story at The MMQB in detail Tuesday, but the short version is this: Soccer player from a small town in southwest Norway, enchanted with American football. Ordered a football online in early 2011, began kicking it for fun, made a <em>YouTube<\/em> video of him powerfully kicking a football, Norwegian TV picked it up, it got some buzz on American TV, and the Jets invited him for a tryout late last year. Detroit tried him out, then signed him last spring.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eBWxJdlxWvM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI scored some points in a real football game,\u201d Rugland said from the Lions\u2019 facility Sunday, still sounding incredulous about it all in his quite-good English. \u201cIt is such an incredible feeling, when that first kick went through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It showed. For a third-quarter first-preseason-game field goal, Rugland\u2019s 49-yarder engendered huge emotion on the Lions\u2019 sidelines. Linebacker Stephen Tulloch lifted Rugland in the air, and the team gathered \u2018round, pounding him on the pads and helmet. It\u2019s hard to have a feel-good, memorable moment in a first preseason game, but this was certainly one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter King in his Monday Morning Quarterback column has lots of nice things to say about this young man: For the sheer story-telling of it, Havard Rugland has to be this morning\u2019s winner. He\u2019ll tell his story at The MMQB in detail Tuesday, but the short version is this: Soccer player from a small town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[178,179,610],"class_list":["post-21605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-detroitlions","tag-nfl","tag-norway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Ct","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21607,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions\/21607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}