Matt Bahr

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Matt Bahr
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Position: Placekicker
Personal information
Date of birth: (1956-07-06) July 6, 1956 (age 67)
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Career information
High school: Neshaminy High School
College: Penn State
NFL draft: 1979 / Round: 6 / Pick: 165
Career history
Career highlights and awards
Career NFL statistics
Points scored: 1,422
Field goal attempts: 415
Field goals / percent: 300 / 72.3%
PAT attempts: 534
PAT kicks / percent: 522 / 97.8%
Player stats at PFR

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Matt Bahr
Personal information
Date of birth (1956-07-06) July 6, 1956 (age 67)
Place of birth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1974–1977 Penn State
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978 Colorado Caribous 24 (0)
1978 Tulsa Roughnecks 2 (0)
1979 Pennsylvania Stoners 0 (0)
Total 26 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Matthew David Bahr (born July 6, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)[1] is a former professional American football placekicker in the National Football League, and professional soccer player in the North American Soccer League. He attended Neshaminy High School in Langhorne, Pennsylvania where he excelled in both football and soccer. He is the son of National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee Walter Bahr.

College and soccer career

As a senior at Penn State, in 1978, Bahr was a consensus All-America selection. In 1978, he signed with the Colorado Caribous of the North American Soccer League, for whom he made 24 appearances and made three assists. The Caribous traded him to the Tulsa Roughnecks during the season, and he made two appearances. On March 27, 1979, he signed with the Pennsylvania Stoners of the second division American Soccer League.

Professional football career

In 1979, he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the sixth round of the 1979 NFL Draft.[2] His brother Chris Bahr followed a similar career path. Over his career, which spanned from 1979 to 1995, he played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, the San Francisco 49ers, the Cleveland Browns, the New York Giants, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots. After[1] As a rookie, he won a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers in Super Bowl XIV. His longest tenure was with the Cleveland Browns where he played for 9 years and was cut during the 1990 preseason. [3] [4] In late September of that season he was picked up by the N.Y Giants after a repetitious injury to Raul Allegre. [5] He is best remembered for his performance in the 1990 NFC Championship Game on January 20, 1991, as he set an NFC Championship Game record with five field goals (including a 42-yarder as time expired) to lift the Giants past the 49ers 15–13. He also kicked what would prove to be the decisive field goal in Super Bowl XXV on January 27, 1991, as the Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20–19, also recording a tackle on the opening kickoff.

Bahr held the record for longest span for a player between Super Bowl victories at 11 years, until Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens went 12 years from Super Bowl XXXV in 2001 to Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.

Bahr finished his 17 seasons with 300 of 415 field goals and 522 of 534 extra points. Overall, he scored a total of 1,422 points.[6]

At the time of his retirememnt, Bahr was the last active NFL player that played for the Steelers in at least one of their four Super Bowl wins in the 1970s.

Career regular season statistics

Career high/best bolded

Personal life

He appeared in the 1980 television movie, Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story.[7]

He is now an electrical engineer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

References

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  2. The Smallest Steeler of All
  3. Spotlight - Matt Bahr
  4. Giants Put Allegre on Injured Reserve
  5. Giants Put Allegre on Injured Reserve
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Sporting positions
Preceded by Philadelphia Eagles Starting Kickers
1993
Succeeded by
Eddie Murray