It's Scifers Week...let's talk balls

We've all known for some time that Mike Scifers is a pretty special punter. He doesn't get the recognition he deserves because there are so many other fine punters out there....and nobody cares about kicking footballs. There is however, a noteworthy skill that he has mastered -- one that was developed under the tutelage of an Australian Master.

The Master: Darren Bennett

The Skill: The Aussie Kick

The Aussie Rules punt ensures that the ball, when punted, comes at you crazy like a knuckle ball but most importantly, due to the little flip given when dropping it for a punt, it does not bounce forward into the end-zone. It bounces pretty much straight up or slightly back. Colts trapped at the 2 yard line...Game....Set....Match!

I may have butchered the explanation but what do you expect...I'm not a punter! Direct any and all questions to 4th and Long...he's your Huckleberry.

In addition to this game changing kicking style, Darren Bennett is bad ass, and currently holds the number one most memorable punt according to us.

Oi Mate...ya dn't want me kickin' ya in the balls

We'll preface the following with this: the "most memorable punts list" only has three punts on it because during most weeks.....we could give two shits about punting away possession:

• #3 Sean Landetta of the Giants versus the Bears in January of 1986. On their way to a Superbowl XX victory the Bears handed it to the Giants 20-0 during the Divisional round of the playoffs. Landetta's kick went for negative yards (15 ?)...we were there...it was COLD!

• #2 Mike Scifers and his pin of Peyton Manning at the 2 yard line to essentially win the Wildcard game for the Chargers. 2009.

• #1 Darren Bennett.....the punt must have been terrible (or at least the coverage) because Bennett was forced to make a tackle...and he proceeded to kill the returner! Clothesline Destruction Tackle!!! Think it was his rookie campaign, fresh out of the Aussie Rules game, where men who kick must be men who tackle! 1994?

Three Punts in all of our years of watching football. Three stinking punts! Sorry 4th and Long... but it is what is.

Darren Bennett is the man and Scifers learned from him...The PUNTING MEN!

This concludes today's run for Mike Scifers, the ONLY player we will need on Sunday versus the Steelers.