YouTube taught a Japanese teen how to kick field goals. Now he’s in the NFL.
Unorthodox backgrounds are the norm in the IPP program, which expanded two years ago to include specialists, including kickers. Yet Matsuzawa might have the unlikeliest path to the NFL of all. Football isn’t a foreign concept in Japan. A semiprofessional league, the X League, was founded in 1971. American universities once regularly played Japanese universities … Read more