{"id":941638,"date":"2026-10-26T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941638\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:54:22","slug":"nfl-news-2026-america-stunned-by-aussie-star-michael-dicksons-punt-borrowed-from-afl-in-seattle-seahawks-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941638\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL news 2026: America stunned by Aussie star Michael Dickson\u2019s punt borrowed from AFL in Seattle Seahawks game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian NFL<\/a> punter Michael Dickson<\/a> has America in a frenzy after pulling off an AFL<\/a>-style kick mid-game.<\/p>\n

Dickson, the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> star who hails from Sydney\u2019s south, reeled off a banana kick during his side\u2019s 20-3 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n

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Australian NFL punter Michael Dickson.\u00a0AP Photo\/David Zalubowski<\/p>\n

The kick, which is executed by contacting the ball with the outside of the boot to make it curl like a banana, is a key skill in Australian rules football.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s clearly foreign to America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatch this,\u201d Mike Tirico said in commentary as a replay of Dickson\u2019s kick was shown.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has his shoulders aimed to the right, catches it, squares up, aims left, and then he gets a big old slice back towards the middle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dude is so talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow commentator Cris Collinsworth was just as amazed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, when he kicked that ball I thought it was going to the receiver over on the boundary,\u201d Collinsworth said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then watch how far this thing moves back!\u201d<\/p>\n

A popular American football account on X called MLFootball said the kick was \u201cabsolutely insane\u201d.<\/p>\n

Footage of the kick was posted on the official NFL social media pages with the caption: \u201cSomething you\u2019d expect to see down the fairway\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian NFL punter Michael Dickson has America in a frenzy after pulling off an AFL-style kick mid-game. Dickson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-941638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}