{"id":212286,"date":"2026-04-28T05:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:09:21","slug":"younghoe-koos-giants-kicking-gaffe-may-have-saved-someones-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212286\/","title":{"rendered":"Younghoe Koo’s Giants kicking gaffe may have saved someone’s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Younghoe Koo\u2019s moment in Giants infamy \u2014 when he pulled up during a field goal attempt<\/a> and missed the ball altogether last December \u2014 might\u2019ve saved Mark Toothaker\u2019s life, and now Toothaker wants Koo to be his Kentucky Derby guest.<\/p>\n

Toothaker, the stallion sales manager at Spendthrift Farm, was watching the Giants-Patriots game in bed with his wife, Malory. <\/p>\n

After rewinding the play, he laughed so hard he suffered a seizure \u2014 feeling \u201clike I got electrocuted,\u201d he told the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the hospital, a CT scan revealed a benign, tennis-ball-sized brain tumor that doctors removed.<\/p>\n

\"NewYounghoe Koo attempts a kick during the Giants\u2019 December 2025 game against the Patriots. AP<\/p>\n

Toothaker believes it saved his life because \u201cit could\u2019ve happened any other time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it wasn\u2019t his best moment, but it was beyond crazy,\u201d Toothaker told the AP. \u201cFor she and I to be belly-laughing at his expense, which I feel terrible about now, but it all worked out in the end, that for me it couldn\u2019t have been a better moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toothaker will now be at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, watching Further Ado, who is owned by Spendthrift Farm, compete in the first leg of the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n

For Koo and the Giants, it marked the latest kicking mishap in a recent history filled with them, and Koo \u2014 once a Pro Bowler and accurate kicker with the Falcons \u2014 appeared in one more game for Big Blue before getting released, going 4-for-6 on field goals and 11-for-12 on extra points during his five games with the team.<\/p>\n

\"ThoroughbredMark Toothaker is pictured with his wife at the Breeders\u2019 Cup in October 2025. AP<\/p>\n

And if there was a nadir for the Giants, Koo missing the ball altogether would certainly be in contention for that honor, and he was one of four kickers the Giants cycled through last season.<\/p>\n

But Toothaker \u2014 tuning in for the game because of his friendship with the father of Wan\u2019Dale Robinson, who\u2019s now a former Giants receiver \u2014 described the moment as a \u201cmiracle\u201d and that he was in the right spot at the right time. <\/p>\n

His wife, Malory, acknowledged to the AP that \u201cso many people aren\u2019t that fortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI could have had it on a plane, anywhere,\u201d Toothaker told the AP. \u201cI didn\u2019t kill anybody. I didn\u2019t run over a family in my Expedition running up and down the road. I guess that would\u2019ve been the hardest thing for me to live with if somebody would\u2019ve got hurt out of this.<\/p>\n

\u201cBelieve me, as tough as that thing was, as violent as that seizure was, I have no memory of it and I would find it hard to believe that I wouldn\u2019t have hurt somebody or hurt myself if I would\u2019ve been behind a wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Younghoe Koo\u2019s moment in Giants infamy \u2014 when he pulled up during a field goal attempt and missed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28059,61788,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":["post-212286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-horse-racing","tag-kentucky-derby","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}