Gary Allan Anderson (born 16 July 1959) is a South African former professional

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who played in the

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(NFL) for 23 seasons. The first South African to appear in an NFL regular season game, he spent the majority of his career with the

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and is also known for his

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tenure. Anderson earned four

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and two first-team

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honors after joining the league in 1982 and was named to the NFL's second All-Decade teams of the

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and

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, as well as the Steelers All-Time Team. With the Vikings in 1998, Anderson became the first NFL kicker to convert every field goal and extra point in the regular season. During the postseason, however, he missed a critical field goal in the 1998 NFC Championship Game, which is often attributed with the Vikings' defeat. Anderson continued his NFL career for six more seasons until retiring in 2004. He ranks third in games played (353), points scored (2,434), and field goals made (538) and is also the Steelers' all-time leading scorer at 1,343 points.

Early life

Gary Anderson was born in Parys, South Africa and grew up in

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. His father, the Reverend Douglas Anderson, played professional soccer in England. His mother was South African. Shortly after Gary graduated from high school at Brettonwood High, Reverend Anderson left South Africa and moved his family to the United States. Anderson had hoped to follow in his father's footsteps and become a professional soccer player in Europe. On his third day after immigrating to the United States, he had been given a few American footballs to kick. He went to a local high school football field in

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to see what kicking this type of ball was like. Anderson grew up playing rugby and was drop-kicking them from the 50-yard line. A high school football coach and friend of Dick Vermeil watched Anderson and arranged a tryout with the Philadelphia Eagles the next day. Anderson was aged only 18, having just graduated high school, so at the tryout there were university scouts present, all four of whom offered scholarships on the spot. Anderson chose Syracuse after they promised him that he would also be able to play on the school's soccer team. He played for the Syracuse soccer team in 1978 and 1979, scoring nineteen goals, before devoting himself to football his junior and senior seasons.

Professional career

After graduating from

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, he was drafted as a

by the

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in the 1982 NFL draft but was cut before the season began. He then, within a few days, signed as a free agent with the

and spent the following 13 seasons in Pittsburgh. For the 1995 and 1996 seasons, Anderson signed as a

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with the

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. He then spent the 1997 season as a member of the

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. He also had the distinction of wearing a one-bar facemask throughout his career, even though the NFL outlawed their use prior to his final season in 2004 – he, along with

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punter Scott Player, were afforded a grandfather clause. In 1998, Anderson signed with the

and converted all 35 of his attempted field goals and all 59 extra points in regular season play, becoming the first placekicker to finish the regular season with a 100% success rate on both field goals and extra points. His only miss of the season came in the 1998 NFC Championship Game against the

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. The Falcons ending up winning the game in overtime sending them to

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. Anderson continued to play for the Vikings until 2002. In 2000, while with the Vikings, Anderson surpassed the legendary

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to become the NFL's All-Time Leading Scorer and held the record upon his retirement from the NFL in 2004. Anderson played his final two seasons with the

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in the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Anderson played 23 years in the NFL; only

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(24 seasons), Morten Andersen (25 seasons) and

(26 seasons) have had longer playing tenures; Additionally, Vinatieri and Andersen are the only players to play in more career games than Anderson. Although not officially retired, Anderson's number 1 has also not been reissued by Steelers since his departure from the team. There are a number of interesting coincidences between Anderson and Morten Andersen, another retired star placekicker. Anderson and Morten Andersen have nearly identical last names, were born within a year of one another outside the United States (Morten was born in Denmark), came to the United States as teenagers, were both drafted in

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, had long and successful NFL careers throughout the 1980s and 1990s (and both retiring in the 2000s decade), and hold first or second place in a number of NFL records for scoring, field goals, and longevity. Their overall accuracy is also nearly identical; their career percentage being within .5% of each other on both FGs and PATs. In the 1998 NFC Championship Game, Anderson missed a field goal for the

before Morten Andersen successfully converted his winning kick for the

(which sent them to

, their first Super Bowl appearance), both from the same distance as well (38 yards). On 16 December 2006, Morten passed Anderson to become the all-time leading scorer in NFL history. The following weekend, 24 December 2006, Morten again passed Anderson to become the NFL's career leader in field goals made.

NFL career statistics

Regular season

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! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 9 , , 10 , , 12 , , 83.3% , , 0 , , 48 , , 22 , , 22 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 52 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 27 , , 31 , , 87.1 , , 0 , , 49 , , 38 , , 39 , , 97.4% , , - , , - , , - , , 119 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 24 , , 32 , , 75.0% , , 0 , , 55 , , 45 , , 45 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 117 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , style="background:#cfecec; , 33 , , style="background:#cfecec; , 42 , , 78.6% , , 0 , , 52 , , 40 , , 40 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 139 , - ! style="text-align:center;", 1986 ! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 21 , , 32 , , 65.6% , , 0 , , 45 , , 32 , , 32 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 95 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 12 , , 22 , , 27 , , 81.5% , , 0 , , 42 , , 21 , , 21 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 87 , - ! style="text-align:center;", 1988 ! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 28 , , 36 , , 77.8% , , 0 , , 42 , , 34 , , 35 , , 97.1% , , - , , - , , - , , 118 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 21 , , 30 , , 70.0% , , 0 , , 49 , , 28 , , 28 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 91 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 20 , , 25 , , 80.0% , , 0 , , 48 , , 32 , , 32 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 92 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 23 , , 33 , , 69.7% , , 1 , , 54 , , 31 , , 31 , , 100.0% , , 69 , , 63.5 , , 24 , , 100 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 28 , , 36 , , 78.8% , , 3 , , 49 , , 29 , , 31 , , 93.5% , , 72 , , 61.3 , , 15 , , 113 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 28 , , 30 , , 93.3% , , 0 , , 46 , , 32 , , 32 , , 100.0% , , 76 , , 61.9 , , 19 , , 116 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 16 , , 24 , , 29 , , 82.8% , , 0 , , 50 , , 32 , , 32 , , 100.0% , , 71 , , 59.3 , , 1 , , 104 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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, 16 , , 22 , , 30 , , 73.3% , , 1 , , 43 , , 32 , , 33 , , 97.0% , , 72 , , 62.2 , , 10 , , 98 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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, 16 , , 25 , , 29 , , 86.2% , , 1 , , 46 , , 40 , , 40 , , 100.0% , , 57 , , 58.8 , , 1 , , 115 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

! style="text-align:center;", SF , 16 , , 29 , , 36 , , 80.6% , , 2 , , 51 , , 38 , , 38 , , 100.0% , , 8 , , 60.1 , , - , , 125 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 16 , , 35 , , 35 , , style="background:#e0cef2; , 100.0% , , 0 , , 53 , , style="background:#cfecec; , 59 , , style="background:#cfecec; , 59 , , 100.0% , , 2 , , 54.0 , , - , , style="background:#cfecec; , 164 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 16 , , 19 , , 30 , , 63.3% , , 3 , , 44 , , 46 , , 46 , , 100.0% , , 5 , , 57.6 , , - , , 103 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 16 , , 22 , , 23 , , 95.7% , , 1 , , 49 , , 45 , , 45 , , 100.0% , , 24 , , 55.1 , , 1 , , 111 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 16 , , 15 , , 18 , , 83.3% , , 0 , , 44 , , 29 , , 30 , , 96.7% , , 10 , , 55.5 , , - , , 74 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 14 , , 18 , , 23 , , 78.3% , , 3 , , 53 , , 36 , , 37 , , 97.3% , , 8 , , 55.5 , , - , , 90 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

! style="text-align:center;", TEN , 15 , , 27 , , 31 , , 87.1% , , 0 , , 43 , , 42 , , 42 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 123 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

! style="text-align:center;", TEN , 15 , , 32 , , 37 , , 86.5% , , 1 , , 50 , , 37 , , 37 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 88 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan="2"
Career
, , 353 , , 538 , , 672 , , 80.1% , , 18 , , 55 , , 820 , , 827 , , 99.2% , , 474 , , 60.6 , , 71 , , 2,434

Postseason

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! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , 1 , , 1 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 4 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 2 , , 1 , , 5 , , 20.0% , , 0 , , - , , 7 , , 7 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 10 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 2 , , 7 , , 7 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , 4 , , 4 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 25 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , - , , - , , - , , 2 , , 63.0 , , - , , 3 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , 3 , , 3 , , 100.0% , , 6 , , 62.2 , , - , , 6 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", PIT , 2 , , 4 , , 4 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , 4 , , 4 , , 100.0% , , 10 , , 56.0 , , - , , 16 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

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, 2 , , 4 , , 5 , , 80.0% , , 0 , , - , , 7 , , 7 , , 100.0% , , 13 , , 57.0 , , - , , 19 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

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, 1 , , - , , 1 , , - , , - , , - , , - , , - , , - , , 1 , , 53.0 , , - , , - , - ! style="text-align:center;",

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! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 2 , , 4 , , 5 , , 80.0% , , 0 , , - , , 8 , , 8 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 16 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 2 , , 3 , , 3 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , 5 , , 5 , , 100.0% , , 4 , , 18.3 , , - , , 14 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", MIN , 1 , , 2 , , 2 , , 100.0% , , 0 , , - , , 4 , , 4 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 10 , - ! style="text-align:center;",

! style="text-align:center;", TEN , 2 , , 2 , , 3 , , 66.7% , , 0 , , - , , 4 , , 4 , , 100.0% , , - , , - , , - , , 10 , - class="sortbottom" ! colspan="2"
Career
, , 22 , , 32 , , 40 , , 80.0% , , 0 , , - , , 57 , , 57 , , 100.0% , , 36 , , 53.5 , , - , , 149

NFL records

Single season

*Held record for Points in a single season with no touchdowns scored: 1998 (164 points, 59 PATs, 35 FGs)(broken by

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in 2011) * Field goal percentage: 1998 (100%, 35/35)

Career

* Points: 3rd place, 2,434 Held record from 2000 (passing

) until 2006 (passed by Morten Andersen). * FG made: 3rd place, 538. * Extra points made: 4th place, 820. * Games: 3rd place, 353.

Pittsburgh Steelers franchise records

* Points scored (career): 1,343

Retirement

Anderson stayed with the Vikings until the 2002 season, then he joined the

as a replacement for the injured Joe Nedney. Anderson connected on 27 of 31 field goal attempts in the regular season despite rotating periodically with punter

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, who booted four of five FGAs. In Tennessee's playoff win over

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, Anderson connected on the winning 46-yard field goal in the final seconds, while in Tennessee's playoff loss to

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he missed on his one attempt. After that season, Anderson was making plans to retire and turned down offers from several teams to come kick for them. In June 2004, Anderson, his wife, Kay, and sons Austin and Douglas moved to the Canadian Rocky Mountain town of

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, Canada, just outside

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. When Nedney went down with another season-ending injury after the start of the 2004 season, Anderson again agreed to kick for the Titans, commuting from Canada each week. At the time of his retirement, Anderson was the last active player in the NFL to have played under former Steelers head coach Chuck Noll and the last remaining NFL player born in the 1950s. Gary, and his wife, Kay, give back to their community and hosted an annual charity fundraiser called, "Dreams for Teams" in Canmore, Alberta with the mission of making a positive difference in the lives of Bow Valley school athletes, primarily through providing financial support, to assist them in becoming leaders, valuing teamwork, and achieving athletic and academic excellence. Each year the Anderson's continue to give academic scholarships to local Canmore Athletes. Anderson coached the local boys high school soccer team in Canmore for over a decade. Anderson is passionate about fly fishing, and is a spokesman for the fly fishing industry.

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NFL career statistics

Regular season

Postseason

NFL records

Single season

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