Morten Andersen, nicknamed the Great Dane, was born in Copenhagen in 1960 and raised in the west Jutland town of Struer, and became a Danish-American placekicker who played 25 seasons in the National Football League between 1982 and 2007, mostly for the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons. He first kicked an American football as an exchange student in Indianapolis and went on to Michigan State University, where he was an All-American in 1981. He holds the league record for regular season games played with 382, ranks second in career field goals and points, and is the Saints' all-time leading scorer. His overtime field goal in the 1998 NFC Championship Game sent the Falcons to Super Bowl XXXIII, and he entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
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