The 46-year-old kicker and the Indianapolis
Colts have agreed to a new deal
Will Harris Jersey , general manager Chris Ballard announced Friday on 1070 The Fan, the radio station that broadcasts the team’s games. Terms of the
deal were not immediately available.But it was hardly a surprise. The day after
Indy’s season ended with a divisional-round loss to Kansas City, Vinatieri said
he would “probably” be back for his 24th season in the league. And if all goes
as planned, the NFL’s career scoring leader might still be adding to his record
total of 2,600 a while longer.“There are no guarantees for any of us that
there’s a next day, a next year, anything. I’ve kind of always prepared myself
thinking that way,” Vinatieri said last month after noting he’d like to play 10
more seasons. “There are no guarantees, and when you get to my age, you’re
absolutely right, your days are numbered.”The four-time Super Bowl champion has
showed no signs of slowing down.He made 23 of 27 field goal attempts last season
and finished with 113 points — extending his league record to 21 100-point
seasons.But that’s just part of Vinatieri’s resume.In September, he broke Morten
Andersen’s league record for field goals made and needs 10 more to become the
first player with 700 field goals. In October
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in league history to participate in a game at age 46.His 32 career playoff games
are second all-time, behind former teammate Tom Brady, and he’s the only player
to score 1,000 points with two different franchises — Indy and New England.Yet
somehow Vinatieri and his white beard seem like a perfect fit in this young
locker room.“He seems like he’s the same age he was when I first came in here
and I guess that’s been eight years,” left tackle Anthony Castonzo said earlier
this month. “That’s pretty impressive, eight years, going through your early 40s
that you don’t really seem any older. I’m always impressed with how he’s able to
hang out with the young guys and be one of the guys despite being old enough to
be one of our dads.”Andrew Luck added: “Vinny is the best. I love him.”And there
are more milestones ahead for Vinatieri if he stays healthy.His next game played
will be No. 354, breaking a tie with Gary Anderson for second on the career
list, and if he’s still kicking after he turns 47 in late December, Vinatieri
would join Andersen and George Blanda as the only 47-year-olds to play in a
game.But Ballard saw another reason to bring back the league’s oldest player for
another season.“Do I think he can still kick in this league and be a really good
kicker? Absolutely I do,” Ballard said Jan. 14 in his season-ending news
conference. “He is as important a guy in that locker room as anyone. I don’t
know if I have been around a special teams player that has as much impact as
Adam does in the locker room. From a positive standpoint
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times, handle the good times. I mean all of that, what Adam brings, brings a lot
of value to this team.” THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Andrew Whitworth and most
of his Los Angeles Rams teammates live within a few miles of their team’s
training complex in Thousand Oaks. The Borderline Bar and Grill is only five
miles south of their weekday headquarters in this placid suburban city.The Rams
all reacted with horror and sadness Thursday after a late-night mass shooting
occurred about five miles north of their fields and training rooms.“It’s
gut-wrenching, and it’s emotional,” said Whitworth, who lives in Thousand Oaks
with his wife and four children. “I was up at 3:30
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It’s a hard reality. … The truth is that tragedy is everywhere, and you can’t
escape tragedy. All you can prepare is how you’ll handle it and how you can
approach adversity.”Marine combat veteran Ian David Long opened fire Wednesday
night at the country music bar a 10-minute drive from the Rams’ complex. He
killed 12 people before apparently killing himself.The Rams believe no one
connected to their organization was at the bar, but coach Sean McVay and
defensive coordinator Wade Phillips both described a somber mood in the Rams’
locker room before practice. Whitworth addressed the players and began the
process of coming up with a way to honor the victims.The team will hold a moment
of silence before its home game against Seattle on Sunday, and the Rams may
organize additional tributes to the victims, McVay said.“It was very heartfelt
throughout the entire team,” offensive guard Rodger Saffold said. “We work here,
and we spend most of our time out here. When we heard about it, it was very
shocking. … It just hurt a lot. There’s way too many mass shootings, and this
one hit really close to home.”Phillips described the shooting as a “horrible
tragedy.”“It’s a sad, sad deal, and we feel for the people it happened
to
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concerned about it, as we all are.”The Rams built their training complex 2 1/2
years ago on a corner of the campus of Cal Lutheran University, which had
students at the bar during the shooting. Recent graduate Justin Meek was killed,
according to the school.Classes were canceled at CLU on Thursday.Quarterback
Jared Goff , punter Johnny Hekker , receiver Cooper Kupp and others tweeted
about the tragedy before practice. After McVay and Whitworth spoke to the team,
Saffold said the players discussed putting together a relief fund or other
mechanisms of help for the victims.“It’s something that makes you step back and
gives you a perspective,” McVay said. “I know me personally, I’m very guilty of
losing perspective, because you’re just in your own little world and it’s all
football, all the time
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your perspective on what’s really important, and (serve as a reminder to) not to
get bent out of shape on some of the things that maybe I tend to do, just being
in the role that I’m in.”Although the Rams are playing their games downtown in
the Coliseum before their new stadium opens in Inglewood in 2020, the team chose
the western Los Angeles suburbs for its semi-permanent weekday home when it
returned to Southern California from St. Louis in 2016.The Rams’ separate
corporate offices also are in nearby Agoura Hills, a short drive from Thousand
Oaks. Most of the team’s employees also live in the suburban Ventura County
suburbs one hour northwest of downtown Los Angeles.“To wake up to something like
that, it was just sad to hear it,” cornerback Marcus Peters said. “We talked
about it as a team, because it’s right down the street from us. Stuff like that
can affect us. You never know. The first thing, you’ve got to make sure your
teammates (aren’t) hurt, anybody else on staff or part of the organization. When
things like that happen, you’ve got to rely on each other. It’s going to make us
come together eventually.”
