Hobbled Eagles kicker David Akers, making like Kirk Gibson in the '88 World Series (or Willis Reed in the 1970 NBA Finals for you old-schoolers) beat the Oakland Raiders with a field goal with only 9 seconds left to play today.
At the beginning of the game, penalties forced Akers, who came into the contest with a hamstring injury to his right (kicking) leg, to kick off several times though he was in obvious pain. It was sorta like that scene in the original version of the football movie "The Longest Yard" in which Burt Reynolds' character Paul Crewe drills Ray Nitschke's character in the crotch with a pass time and again.

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