Question For Anyone Who Has Ever Played Organized Football as a Place Kicker

At the end of the Texans vs Titans game tonight, Matt Schaub chose to "center" the football by taking the snap, taking a few steps to his right, and downing the ball in the middle of the field between both hash marks, thereby giving his kicker a straight on kick from about 50 yards as opposed to a kick from the left hash mark. My question is this: Do field goal kickers always prefer a kick from straight on? Or are there kickers who play a "draw" or "fade" to use golf analogy. (Some golfers prefer to tee up on the left side of the tee box, others the right.) I have to believe that not all kickers prefer a "straight on" kick; that some would prefer to kick from either of the hash marks. However, I've never seen a team choose to move the ball from the left hash mark to the right, or right to left to play to a kicker's strength or preference. Teams always choose to center the ball. Do all kickers prefer a kick from straight on?

Buying a jersey--who should I get?

So I'm buying a jersey for the first time and need some help with picking a player. I don't want to go with the obvious stars--right now I'm leaning to Aubrayo Franklin but will take any other suggestions. I normally wear a 2XL/3XL shirt size--will a 2XL jersey be big enough?

closest BART station to Candlestick?

Aubrayo finally gets some Madden love.

He jumps from a 68 to a 79. Still underrated in my opinion, but still noteworthy.

Jerry Rice On Fitz And Brooks at 1:30

Jerry Rice will be on KNBR at 1:30 with Fitz and Brooks. For a major announcement.

Early Odds For 49ers-Vikings Showdown

Football Locks.com Minnesota 7 USA Today: Minnesota 7 Bet USA: Minnesota 6.5 Bookmaker: Minnesota 6.5 Bo Dog: Minnesota 7 The odds opened at 8 in most sites and were dropped to 6.5 experts expect it to drop lower, maybe to 5.5 by weeks end. So if you are a betting man as i am and want to pick the niners to cover i would say do it within the next day or two before the odds lower even more. LETS GO NINERS. Win this bay outright!!!!

Eric Berry or a new QB

The Eric Berry Sweepstakes? Seattle has the Broncos pick, the niners have the Panthers Both need Eric Berry...........

49ers Hall of Hame Inductee

That was a sick 49ers Hall of Fame inductee event

Seahawks Injury Update

Seattle is preparing for Leroy Hill to be out until at least late November, this is a huge hit to a team that has already lost Marcus Trufant, Chris Spencer and Walter Smith for a considerable amount of time this season. Smith and Trufant possibly for an extended part of the season. On another note Deion Branch practiced and remains questionable after not playing against the Rams in week 1. The only players out for San Francisco are Ahmed Brooks (1-2 more weeks) and Walt Harris(IR), Brandon Jones is planning to practice this week and wants to play. Originally Jones was thought to be out until mid October. It remains to be seen if Jones will make his 49ers debut this week, but i wouldn't count on it

Portland Niner Fans

Any Niner fans living in/around Portland know a good place to go to watch Niner games? I can't stand getting forced to watch the Seahawks every weekend and none of the local sports bars around me have Direct TV/Sunday Ticket. Thanks!