Uwe von Schamann

Uwe Detlef Walter von damage Mann ( born April 23, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German former professional American football player and two-time Super Bowl participants with the Miami Dolphins kicker. He is the most successful German football players in the United States. From Saddle man is one of so far only five German players in the NFL. Beside him Horst Mühlmann, Sebastian Vollmer, Bjorn Werner and Constantin Ritzmann and Markus Kuhn have completed at least one game in the NFL.

Early life and NFL career

From Saddle man made ​​his high school graduation in 1975, after he was three years earlier pulled out of West Berlin in the USA, at Eastern Hills High School in Fort Worth, Texas. The University of Oklahoma gave him because of his talent on a football scholarship. With the Sooners, the football team of the University, he won the National Championship and received some college football honors (including best kicker of the Big 8 Conference all time, kicker of the century at his university ).

He was selected in 1979 in the seventh round of the draft, became the Rookie of the year 1979, the NFL appointed, and played until 1984 for the Dolphins.

From Saddle man held the NFL record for

• Most extra point attempts in a season (70, 1984)
• Most transformed extra points (66, 1984).

Both records were broken by Stephen Gostkowski in 2007.

After the NFL

Uwe von damage man returned a few years after the career end of 1993 to the University of Oklahoma in 1996 and made his degree in journalism. This he calls despite his athletic record as the biggest success of his life. In 1998 he founded his own company, saddle Mann & Associates, among other things, Training and public speaking on topics such as self-confidence, motivation and teamwork keeps, but also organizes camps and lessons to kick.

The images of v. Saddle man from the 1984 season were in the movie Ace Ventura - Pet Detective used.