[vincesanity82]

A year after he was exiled from the Colts and less than a year after he was unexpectedly dumped by the Cowboys, kicker Mike Vanderjagt is finding no takers in the NFL.

So he could be heading to Canada.

A reader who attended Thursday's game between the Calgary Stampeders and the Toronto Argonauts eyeballed Vanderjagt on the sidelines with Argonauts G.M. Adam Rita.

The Argonauts recently signed former NFL kicker Steve Christie to replace injured kicker Noel Prefontaine. So if there was interest in Vanderjagt, why didn't the Argonauts sign him instead of Christie?

It could be that Vaderjagt is still hoping to get a call from an NFL team, and thus doesn't want to commit to a CFL team for the balance of the 2007 season. At some point, however, Vanderjagt might have to decide to make the move north if he hopes to continue his football career at all.

Vanderjagt played for the Argonauts in 1996 and 1997, winning a Grey Cup with the team each season. He signed with the Colts in 1998.

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[Lefty Noob]

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. As many clutch kicks as he missed throughout his career, it's a surprise he lasted as long as he did in the NFL.

[vincesanity82]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. As many clutch kicks as he missed throughout his career, it's a surprise he lasted as long as he did in the NFL.

im sure the colts didnt weep when they kicked him to the curb, if the game was on line, forget it..

[Bette]

If he does, its the NFL's gain and Canada's loss.
Maybe Canada isnt far enough.

PS I am not a vanderjerk fan

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Bette

If he does, its the NFL's gain and Canada's loss.
Maybe Canada isnt far enough.

PS I am not a vanderjerk fan

See, I like the guy...wish he had made it in Dallas...Though Peyton Manning was right when he said... what does he know, he's a kicker...

[peg_city]

Hes to good to go to the CFL. I'm sure someone will pick him up. A team that doesn't make the playoffs.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

See, I like the guy...wish he had made it in Dallas...Though Peyton Manning was right when he said... what does he know, he's a kicker...

Good grief, what was there to like about the guy? Why am I not surprised??

You forgot the most important part of what Peyton said '"he's an idiot kicker, emphasis on the idiot part.

[bears9]

get the drunkin nuckle head to Canada thats what Peyton Manning is saying

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Bette

Good grief, what was there to like about the guy? Why am I not surprised??

You forgot the most important part of what Peyton said '"he's an idiot kicker, emphasis on the idiot part.

Do we really need to bring up the "idoit" part?...I mean come on...the man had a perfect season kicking once...leave him some dignity.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

Do we really need to bring up the "idoit" part?...I mean come on...the man had a perfect season kicking once...leave him some dignity.

As my mother used to say,"If the shoe fits.........."

[vincesanity82]

VANDERJAGT FOCUSED ON NFL RETURN

After a reader tipped us off to the fact that former Colts and Cowboys kicker Mike Vanderjagt was patrolling the sidelines of a CFL game in Toronto, we called his Toronto-based agent, Gill Scott, to find out whether Peyton Manning's favorite liquored-up kicker might be contemplating a return to Canada.

On Friday, Scott said that there is no plan to attempt to sign Vanderjagt with a CFL team, and that the most accurate kicker in NFL history (except when playoff games are on the line) is focused on coming back to the "real" North American pro football league.

Scott told PFT that he and Vanderjagt are specifically watching a couple of situations in NFL cities, in the event that the any of the teams in question decide to punt the current kicker at the top of the depth chart. But Scott declined to identify the squads that are being eyeballed.

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[Lefty Noob]

Who winds up signing Vanderjagt? Whichever team's kicker goes down injured first, or maybe second. Or third.

[bears9]

If he wants to start the season as a team kicker the only place wear he has a miroscopic shot is the Giants

[Lefty Noob]

Originally Posted by bears9

If he wants to start the season as a team kicker the only place wear he has a miroscopic shot is the Giants

I don't think so. They've already got Lawrence Tynes and Josh Huston on their roster. Tynes is a pretty darn good kicker.

[Bette]

Has to be someone really desperate. Maybe like the Cowboys last year. They paid that idiot an awful lot of money.