Raiders make Janikowski highest paid kicker ever

Posted by A. Isaac on February 16th, 2010 at 1:01 pm

You can call Al Davis crazy, but at the very least he’s original. He follows no protocol, has no game plan and seemingly makes decisions on the fly.

In the past it may have worked for him. He was the first owner to hire a Latino coach, the second person to hire a black coach, and the first to place a woman as president of a NFL club.

And now, he’s the first person to ever be stupid enough to give a kicker 4 million dollars a year.

The Oakland Raiders have awarded the largest kicking contract in league history to one of the league’s largest kickers.

Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Sebastian Janikowski will sign a four-year, $16 million contract, including $9 million in guaranteed money.

Maybe Davis knows something the rest of us don’t. After watching the playoffs this past year, kickers certainly didn’t perform up to the standards they had in the past. Shayne Graham, Jay Feely, and Nate Kaeding just to name a few.

Certainly the pressure of the playoffs was a crucial factor in those kickers performances, so that’s not something Janikowski needs to worry about. Having missed the playoffs every year since 2002 and only averaging about 4 wins a year, Janikowski’s field goals aren’t exactly kicked in heart pumping post-season action.

But hey, if Al says he’s worth 4 million a year, who are the rest of us to argue? After all, he is a Hall of Famer.

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A. Isaac A. Isaac is the Senior Editor of Guyism.com. You may have seen him before on The World of Isaac or at a local beach showing off his man boobs. His claims to fame include eating 5 cheeseburgers in one minute, having a threesome with two Victoria Secret models, and being a world-class table tennis player. Unfortunately, the validity of some of those claims is under dispute.