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Former NFL Placekicker Saves Woman From Car, Woman Still Prefers QB

njohnson.jpgNorm Johnson, a former placekicker for the Seattle Seahawks, is a hero for something other than nailing the game winning field goal as the clock expires. The kicker-turned-real estate agent was driving his son to school when he noticed the Pontiac Grand Am lying upside-down in a ditch full of freezing water and the woman trapped and screaming in the backseat. It was fortunate for the woman he arrived because, like all great kickers (and many good real estate agents), he's got ice water running through his veins.

Johnson cracked the back window open and pulled the hysterical woman out. Thanks to Johnson's quick work, the woman escaped without serious injury and his son will have just one more thing to hold over the heads of his friends whose fathers haven't accomplished anything in their lives. [IHT]

10:15 AM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Matt Hardigree
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