A Kicker Actually Won MVP?!

Hi, today I am doing a flashback post about a crazy thing that no one would believe happened. A kicker actually won MVP! I also have a new mock draft: http://walterfootball.com/mocks/publishedmock/60239/1
 Here it is:

Mark Moseley, K, Redskins, Eagles, Browns, Oilers:

No one can believe what I am saying but one year the league went crazy and handed the biggest award in football, MVP, to a kicker! Thats right, a kicker?! Moseley won MVP in 1982 but the season was shortened because NFL went of strike. When Moseley came out to start the season, he wasn't in the greatest position to win MVP, his last kicking season wasn't great and the Redskins brought in K Dan Miller to give Moseley competetion but in the end of the pre-season the the team cut Miller and kept Moseley. The short season began in week 2, and when the league went on strike it came back in
week 11 making it a only 9 game season. This really helped Moseley's chances of winning MVP. The Redskins came into the playoffs as the best team in the NFC. They easily went through the playoffs and moved on to the Super Bowl where they won the Super Bowl against the Dolphins 27-17. The Redskins did have the best defense in the league but K Mark Moseley got more recognition for the Super Bowl win then the defense. He set an NFL record of 23 field goals in a row and almost went the whole season without a miss but ended up missing an extra point in week 17. He went 20-21 field goals and they all counted. In week 1 he kicked a field goal to tie the game and then kicked a field goal for the win in that one. In week 2 he made 3 field goals to help win the game in bad weather conditions against the Buccaneers. Weeks later Moseley hit a game winner to beat their rival Giants by 1 point. That very field goal set him the record at the time for the most consectutive field goals and clinched the Skins' a playoff berth. Moseley won MVP and since it was such a short season and
Moseley made so many important field goals it makes some sense that he won MVP but who would have ever thought that a kicker would win MVP. CRAZY?!

Thanks for reading about this unlikely story of a kicker.

Special thanks to: http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-year-the-nfl-went-insane-and-gave-a-kicker-the-mvp-award/  for helping me find out about the details of his crazy season!

Photo Cred: Mister Irrelevant,The New York Times