Rob Bironas

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Rob Bironas
Date of birth	January 29, 1978
Place of birth	Louisville, KY
Position(s)	Place kicker
College	Auburn University Georgia Southern University
Records	Tied 4th longest field goal in NFL history, 60 yards on Dec 3, 2006 vs. Indianapolis Colts
Statistics	NFL.com CBS.com
Team(s)
2003 2004 2005 2005-Present	Charleston Swamp Foxes - af2 Carolina Cobras - AFL New York Dragons - AFL Tennessee Titans

James Robert Douglas Bironas (born January 29, 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Football player. He is currently the kicker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. Before playing in the NFL, Bironas worked as a security guard in Best Buy.

1 High school
2 College career
3 AFL career
4 NFL career
5 External links

[edit] High school

At Trinity High School in Louisville, Bironas lettered twice in football, four times in soccer, twice in swimming, and once in track and field.

[edit] College career

Bironas attended Auburn University where he was a semi-finalist for the Lou Groza Award in 1998 after making 12 of 16 field goal attempts (including two successful 49-yard tries with the four misses from 40+) and making all 18 PATs for a team-high 54 points. The following season, the preseason All-SEC kicker was kicked off the football team and replaced by the punter, Damon Duval.[1][2] Bironas later transferred to Georgia Southern University, where his brother was on the soccer team, for his senior season, where he was a member of the Eagles’ NCAA Division I-AA National Championship team, before returning to graduate from Auburn with a degree in marketing.

[edit] AFL career

Bironas spent the 2003 season with the Charleston Swamp Foxes of the Arena Football League's minor league system (af2). He made 12 of 27 field goal attempts that season for the Swamp Foxes. He moved up to the Arena Football League in 2004 with the Carolina Cobras converting 17 of 40 field goal attempts and 70 of 89 extra point tries. He spent the 2005 season with the New York Dragons before signing with the Titans connecting on seven of 16 field goal attempts and 99 of 117 extra point attempts for the AFL’s New York Dragons.

[edit] NFL career

Bironas has also spent time on the preseason rosters of the Green Bay Packers (2002), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2003) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (2004). In 2005, he signed as an unrestricted free agent with the Tennessee Titans, where he finished his first season with the Titans converting 23 of 29 field goals attempts (79.3%) and 30 of 32 extra points attempts (93.8%). Bironas also finished the season tied for 7th in the league on touchbacks with 11.

In 2006, Bironas built on his previous success and has kicked a number of game winning field goals. In week 12, he kicked a 49 yard field goal in the final seconds to beat the New York Giants 24-21. The following week (December 3rd, 2006), he converted a 60 yard field goal with seven seconds remaining to upset the Indianapolis Colts. It was the longest in franchise history and is tied for the fourth longest field goal ever kicked in NFL history (along with Morten Andersen and Steve Cox).