Setta most likely to stay with Ti-Cats
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator:
It’s a lasting image from the rather forgettable 2007 Hamilton Tiger-Cat season.
As bench boss Charlie Taaffe put the Tabbies through their paces on the Ivor Wynne Stadium turf, their kicker would be doing one-legged hops up the stadium steps. No one ever saw Paul Osbaldiston attempt this. Or any other kicker in the Canadian Football League, for that matter.
The extreme practice sessions for Nick Setta proved worthwhile. While the on-field product was terrible, the club’s experiment with its first American place-kicker and punter proved a great success.
Setta proved a different sort of Cat. But in good ways. The 26-year-old Lockport, N.Y., native, who signed as a free agent in December 2006, would lead the league in field-goal percentage (84.9), finish fifth in punting with a 44-yard average and bang in the Canadian Football League’s longest iron-splitter of the season, a 53-yard effort.
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