Nick Lowery
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Dominic Gerald Lowery nicknamed Nick the Kick, is a former American football
American football
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 placekicker
Placekicker
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 for the New England Patriots
New England Patriots
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 (1978
1978 New England Patriots season
The New England Patriots finished the National Football League's 1978 season with a record of eleven wins and five losses, and finished tied for first in the AFC East division.-Staff:-Regular season:...

), the Kansas City Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...

 (1980
1980 Kansas City Chiefs season
The 1980 Kansas City Chiefs season ended with an 8–8 record, the team's first winning season since 1972, but no playoff berth.Beginning the new decade, the Chiefs selected guard Brad Budde, the son of Chiefs Hall of Fame guard Ed Budde, as the team's first-round draft choice, making the Buddes the...

-1993
1993 Kansas City Chiefs season
The 1993 Kansas City Chiefs season was arguably the franchise's most successful in 22 years: The Chiefs won the AFC Western Division and finished with a 11–5 record...

), and New York Jets
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 (1994
1994 New York Jets season
The 1994 New York Jets season was the 35th season for the team and the 25th in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 8–8 record from 1993 under new head coach Pete Carroll...

-1996
1996 New York Jets season
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). Lowery was selected to the Pro Bowl
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 three times and when he retired was ranked first in field goal percentage and also had the most field goals in NFL history. He is currently tenth on the National Football League
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's list of all-time scoring leaders, and is the Chiefs' all-time leading scorer, with 1,466 points in his 14 seasons with the club.

Nick grew up in Washington, DC and attended St. Albans School where he was a star football player.

He attended Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
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.http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/fbhnfl.asp
He has an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the first pro athlete to graduate from there.

In 2009 Lowery was inducted into the Kansas City Chiefs
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 Hall of Fame.

Lowery was all-pro 7 times during his career, and set several NFL records during his career
  • most field goals all-time (384)
  • most accurate all-time (from 1984-1997 Lowery held the all-time accuracy mark for 10 of those 12 years)
  • most 50 yard field goals
  • most games with 2 or more 50 yarders
  • Lowery also held the record for best PAT
    Extra Point
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     percentage since the goal posts were moved back 10 yards and PAT's became 20 yarders, not 10 yarders.
  • Lowery received the NFL Players Association's most prestigious humanitarian award, the Byron Whizzer White Award, in 1993.
  • Lowery kicked more than 15 game-winners during his career, including in 2 playoff games vs. the Raiders in 1992 and Steelers in 1994, and also kicked the game-winning points in all 3 Pro Bowls in 1982, 1991 and 1993.
  • 2007 NFL Hall of Fame nominee

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