… I just worked on my own when he wasn't there and had fun with it," said Jimmy, a two-time All-American at Tennessee who played two games with the Seattle Seahawks. But rather than a servant, he prefers to be known as a scion of the First Family of Fourth Down. Britton has a young son, and Dustin has three. E-mail: ebranch@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Eric_Branch. No N.F.L. with a net average of 42.1 yards and second with a return average of 6.2 yards. Fatal car crashes and road traffic accidents in Colquitt, Georgia. Craig Colquitt is also the author of the children's book: "JoJo! "I read that advertisement and went outside and kicked the ball and it went over the house and into the trees and I thought, 'I'm going to try this.'". The Colquitts are to punting what the Mannings are to passing, and this first family of punters had an inauspicious start – a safety on the patriarch’s very first punt at the University of Tennessee in 1975. In 2012, he ranked third in the N.F.L. In his one game with the Indianapolis Colts, he had the only blocked punt of his pro career. By signing up to the VICE newsletter you agree to receive electronic communications from VICE that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. It's everything," said Craig, who still occasionally works individually with aspiring punters. Colquitt County Coroner Verlyn Brock was called to the scene. A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. Republicans are fighting in Tuesday's election to retain their majority against a surge of Democratic challengers across a vast political map in states once considered long shots for Democrats. "The Punting Colquitt Brothers Are Keeping Alive a Family Pedigree in the N.F.L.,", http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2009/jul/03/just-for-kicks/, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/sports/football/for-the-colquitt-punters-4th-down-is-family-time.html, https://craigcolquitt.com/order-the-book/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Craig_Colquitt&oldid=953672603, Players of American football from Tennessee, National Football League replacement players, Short description is different from Wikidata, NFL player missing current team parameter, Infobox NFL biography articles missing alt text and caption, Infobox NFL biography articles with old NFL.com URL, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 April 2020, at 13:21. Time to go back to stocking shelves, he thought. We lived with our children.”. "If you don't have a good drop, it's going to affect your concentration and how you perform. Craig closed his punting camp in 1995, but the quest to groom the next high-kicking Colquitt has already begun. “And he knew nothing about punting,” Craig said. He feared returning to the sideline, but a remarkable thing happened. All of them were punters at Tennessee. Britton followed his father and brother as a punter for the Volunteers, but he had a stretch of well-publicized incidents involving alcohol that threatened his career. “I was swimming in the pool when they were punting,” Dustin said. He is also the father of two NFL punters, Dustin and Britton Colquitt. "We're going to Tuscaloosa in July to senior showcase and try to find somewhere for him to play," said Colquitt Co. Coach Andy Harden. Photo by John Rieger-USA TODAY Sports. When Dustin was 7 and Britton was 4, Craig said, he told them that they would inherit his Super Bowl rings when he died. His nephew, Jimmy Colquitt, was a punter for the Seattle Seahawks in 1985. Officials said it happened Thursday around 10 a.m. on Georgia Highway133. It was a great experience.”. The son of Craig's oldest brother, Jimmy Colquitt first picked up the technique by helping his uncle train. Because the Broncos and Chiefs are in the AFC West, they have met 12 times during their careers. Dustin said his father wanted him to continue the family punting tradition at Tennessee. He said he felt uncomfortable at first in tight football pants and even inserted his pads incorrectly, leading one teammate to say, “Your dad won two Super Bowls, and you can’t even put your pads on right.”, Dustin’s discomfort ended, according to Britton, who was then a freshman at Bearden, when a girl yelled from the stands, “Nice butt, Colquitt.”. His nephew, Jimmy, averaged 43.9 yards from 1981-84. “And there are times when you have Peyton Manning as a quarterback that you don’t feel like it even matters if you show up.”. “Everybody wants to feel like they are part of it,” Colquitt said. Two teenagers died Saturday afternoon in a one-car accident on Old Berlin Road. Britton Colquitt, the Broncos’ punter, signed a deal in August that averaged $3.9 million a year, making him the highest-paid player at his position. (© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. The brothers have an uncle, Jimmy, Craig’s brother, who had 12 punts in two games with the Seahawks in 1985. ©2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. Albany State University’s west campus served as a polling place on November 3rd. When Craig Colquitt held kicking camps, Britton went along as a teacher, while Dustin remained largely uninterested. It would beat having one prematurely bequeathed to him by his 61-year-old dad, a seven-year NFL veteran who won titles as a punter with the Steelers in the 1978 and ’79 seasons. “Just my whole life, I feel extremely blessed,” Colquitt said. According to a report from Georgia State Patrol, Xavier Terry, 18, was traveling south on Hwy. "The biggest thing I had to tackle when I started punting was I'm right-handed and left-footed," Dustin said. It’s about the (ring), I guess, and the memories and putting your name in history forever.”, Eric Branch is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. No charges are expected to be filed in the case. Both were also named All-Americans with the Volunteers and followed their dad and cousin to the NFL; Dustin with the Kansas City Chiefs and Britton with the Broncos. Craig Colquitt, who won two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, feels like he handed down a family business to his sons Dustin and Britton. The boys practiced their drop everywhere. Some days, the brothers kicked balls to each other in the backyard. He's “the only male Colquitt in my family who doesn’t have a Super Bowl ring.” “Fourth down, that’s the important down,” he said. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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