It was kicker carnage in Week 1, and Pittsburgh Steelers kicker Chris Boswell’s miss doinked so hard that it belongs in a museum.
Let’s spare hyperbole, the end of the Bengals-Steelers showdown in Week 1 was absolute chaos.
Three consecutive times kickers from either side stepped up with a chance to walk off with a win, and each time he missed.
Bengals kicker Evan McPherson missed twice; once on a blocked extra point at the end of regulation and again in overtime. That overtime miss led to a chance for Chris Boswell to win things for the Steelers but he also missed.
Of the three missed kicks, Boswell’s was by far the finest. It transcends merely being a missed kick and instead is a work of art worthy of hanging in art institutes around the world.
When Justin Tucker is up for the Hall of Fame discussion 5 years after he retires, he just needs to show the tape from Week 1 of the 2022 season.pic.twitter.com/hJ3CFaYxyM
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 11, 2022
It’s not that he missed it, or the context in which he missed it — which is absolutely phenomenal. Rather it’s the sound of the miss that deserves some sort of daytime
The upright BONG is the greatest sound in the world pic.twitter.com/j0DOAMuVOO
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) September 11, 2022
Give this a Daytime Emmy Award.
Nominate it for an Oscar.
Put it in The Louvre.
Put it in a time capsule. Let them dig this up in a thousand years and celebrate a football fossil they’ll put in museums and write books about.
How we got something so beautiful out of a game that was so utterly unbelievably ugly is why football is the greatest sport on this planet.
That Boswell kick doinked so hard my dog ran to the door thinking someone was there
— Matthias Underwood (@RealMattyDubbs) September 11, 2022
noooo boswell 💀#Undertaker pic.twitter.com/pvb8yhh81H
— Benstonium (@Benstonium) September 11, 2022
The good news for Boswell is that he got another chance to kick a game-winner and redeem himself.
So everyone wins here — well, except the Bengals, sorry Cincinnati. Boswell doinked a kick so hard it scared dogs, he got another shot to redeem himself, and we were gifted with absolute kicker carnage straight out the gate to start the season.