Bruins Bias Rears Its Ugly Foot

In Buffalo last night, Dallas Cowboys rookie kicker Nick Folk banged home the game-winning field goal from 53 yards — not once but twice. Folk was forced to repeat the feat because the Bills called for timeout just before the ball was snapped, the soul-killing gimmick that the league’s competition committee can’t outlaw soon enough.

The Cowboys selected Folk out of Arizona with the 178th pick in last year’s draft, a pick justified with two swings of Folk’s mighty leg.

The Chiefs, of course, targeted a different Pac-10 kicker in the 2007 draft. Kansas City took Justin Medlock of UCLA with the 160th pick, only to cut the kid after a shaky preseason and a missed field goal in the opener.