Ex-Ravens Kicker Matt Stover Retiring
Former placekicker for the Baltimore Ravens, Matt Stover, will be announcing his retirement this afternoon at a press conference to be held at the team's Training Complex in Owings Mills, Maryland at 3pm. Stover was the last former Cleveland Browns player to leave the team when the Ravens choose not to retain him after the 2008 season. He played for the Indianapolis Colts in 2009 but no team signed him and he did not play in the 2010 season.
Stover holds every kicking and scoring record for the franchise and was one of the league's most accurate kickers in history. His only knock was not being able to hit the long kicks, but he hit a few from just over 50 yards to win critical games for the Ravens in his career. Kickoffs were also an issue, especially towards the end of his career, when both the Ravens and Colts had another player on their rosters handle the kickoff duties.
The Ravens have mentioned that they plan to make another announcement once Stover makes his retirement official. The expectation is that the Ravens will be adding him to their M&T Bank Stadium 'Ring of Honor,' alongside other greats such as Jonathan Ogden, Peter Boulware, Michael McCrary, Earnest Byner, plus former owner Art Modell as well as a group of Baltimore Colts that include Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry and Lenny Moore among others.
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Can you believe I didn't have legal access
to any of Stover in a Ravens uni?
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on May 26, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions
WHA!?!!!??
Are you joking? Why can’t you have legal access to a photo that is 3-4 years old?
by Mstevens_Design on May 26, 2011 12:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Mr Roboto
The classiest guy in the NFL by far.
Though I have heard stories that he would wait until the new kickers would come in and he would be booming 55-60 yard kicks all of a sudden. Just to put them in their place a little bit and remind the Ravens who he was.
by Mstevens_Design on May 26, 2011 10:30 AM EDT reply actions
His retirement post conference was great to watch and listen to. He sure as hell doesn’t look 43 years, more like 33 years old.
"No disrespect to Patrick Peterson and Prince Amukamara, but I just think I have better cover skills. They get tested a lot, and that’s for a reason. The other team sees something in their game that they want to attack, and me playing in the same league as Prince, we played the same teams and they didn’t attack me the same. So why does that happen?" - CB Jimmy Smith




















