Depending on how the coin toss plays out, there's a 50-50 chance that the first athlete to put a football in play in the 2008 NFL season Thursday night will have been old enough to have played for the Rams when they were still in Los Angeles. And that was his second team.
John Carney has been an NFL kicker since 1988 - the same year Tom Coughlin first arrived with the Giants as a wide receivers coach - and will start his third decade in the profession with the defending Super Bowl champions. The Giants signed the 44-year-old yesterday after it became clear that Lawrence Tynes would be unable to start the season three weeks after injuring his left knee. Josh Huston had filled in for Tynes during the preseason, but he was among nearly two dozen players clipped from the roster at yesterday's 53-man deadline. Continue
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