Road to History: Jason Hanson, an appreciation (flag)

blog.mlive.com — Jason Hanson would go down as the best kicker in NFL history had he been kicking for a competent organization. It is both sad and thrilling that the best player not named Sanders in the last 20 years of Lions football might just be a kicker.

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