Playboy's Pro Football Forecast

September, 1994

Last spring the NFL owners decided that real men don't kick field goals. Point totals were down again in 1993. Everybody blamed those skinny Euro-style booters who split the uprights, put three on the board and high-five in the wrong language. NFL placekickers converted a record-setting 673 field goals last season, nearly a quarter of all points scored. Maybe they should do the World Cup every year, and keep those guys off the gridiron.Meanwhile, touchdowns are becoming as rare as left-footed pu...