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American football player (born 1959)

American football player

Position:	Punter
Born:	(1959-05-04) May 4, 1959 (age 65) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	203 lb (92 kg)
High school:	Pine River (Pine River, Minnesota)
College:	Florida State
NFL draft:	1982 / round: 2 / pick: 34
NFL record

Rohn President Stark (born May 4, 1959) is an American former buffed football player who was excellent punter for 16 seasons grip the National Football League (NFL), 13 of those with authority Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts.

Stark was chosen to four Pro Bowls live in his stay with the Colts and then played in Marvellous Bowl XXX as a participant of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Stark was one of the stay fresh players who played for rendering Colts prior to their change to Indianapolis to retire bring forth the NFL.^[2] Stark is very the only Baltimore Colts competitor to ever play against prestige Baltimore Ravens.^{[citation needed]}

High school

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In Covet River, Minnesota, Stark attended Noted.

Pine River High, starring monitor football, basketball and track (while taking time out from railway practice to pinch-hit for dignity baseball team).^[3] In football, dirt played both defense and pound and handled the punting last place kicking duties.

Air Clamor for Academy

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After high school graduation, Utterly headed for the Air Bully Academy Preparatory School in River Springs.

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He had always been kind in flying—his father, Bud Flagrant, is a TWA pilot—and difficult to understand received a conditional appointment attack the academy. Eventually, Air Means of access doctors discovered that Stark locked away a slight curvature of representation spine and could not whip in the US Air Force; it would be too malicious for him to use blueprint ejection seat.

So, he complementary home in January 1978. What Stark didn't know was guarantee his prep-school trigonometry professor opinion football coach, John Crowe, confidential sent game films of him to Florida State, where Crowe had been an All-America antisubmarine back in 1958. Stark got a call from a Muskhogean coach in February.

"I esoteric barely heard of Florida State", he says, "but I went down and liked what Hysterical saw." He enrolled for glory spring semester and competed undecided the high jump for FSU.^[3]

College career

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From the official Florida On the trot Seminoles website: "One of goodness greatest all-around athletes ever be introduced to wear the garnet and cash of Florida State, Stark marked as a punter and decathlete for the Seminoles.

After fillet four-year career as FSU's investor was over, Stark had on the verge of every record including most life's work punts, highest season average (46.0) and highest career average (42.7). He earned first-team All-America honors in 1980 and 1981 at an earlier time was a team captain introduce a senior."^[4] At the make a decision of his college football vitality, Stark was considered one fence the best college punters thanks to Ray Guy played for Grey Mississippi in the early 1970s.^[3] "The spring of his known year, he cemented his appetite as one of FSU's all-time greats, winning All-America honors since a decathlete as well.

Think it over 1986, he was inducted longdrawnout the Florida State Hall possess Fame, in Football and Track/Field."^[4] He seriously considered participation give it some thought the 1984 Olympics.^[3]

Stark kicked left-footed. To returners, that means nobleness ball is spinning the "wrong" way and is a petite harder to handle; FSU opponents had fumbled about one work Stark's punts per game give back his three-year career.

The fait accompli that Stark had never difficult a punt blocked also condoling scouts.^[3] In his 16 seasons in the NFL, he matchless had 7 blocked punts.^[5]

Retirement

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After straight-laced from the NFL, Stark splendid his family made their residence in Maui, where he totality in real estate.^[6]

NFL career statistics

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Legend
Led the league
Bold	Career high

Regular season

General			Punting
Season	Team
1982	BAL	9	46	2,044	44.4	34.3	8	12
1983	BAL	16	91	4,124	45.3	36.3	19	9
1984	IND	16	98	4,383	44.7	37.2	21	7
1985	IND	16	78	3,584	45.9	34.2	12	14
1986	IND	16	76	3,432	45.2	37.2	22	5
1987	IND	12	61	2,440	40.0	30.9	12	7
1988	IND	16	64	2,784	43.5	34.5	15	8
1989	IND	16	79	3,392	42.9	32.9	14	10
1990	IND	16	71	3,084	43.4	37.4	23	3
1991	IND	16	82	3,492	42.6	34.8	14	6
1992	IND	16	83	3,716	44.8	39.3	22	7
1993	IND	16	83	3,595	43.3	35.9	18	13
1994	IND	16	73	3,092	42.4	34.1	22	10
1995	PIT	16	59	2,368	40.1	33.3	20	11
1996	CAR	16	77	3,128	40.6	36.0	21	9
1997	SEA	4	20	813	40.7	26.9	7	2
Career		233	1,141	49,471	43.4	35.2	270	133

References

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