Horst Muhlmann

Horst Herbert Erich Mühlmann (2 January 1940 – 17 November 1991) was a professional footballer and American football placekicker who played nine seasons in the American Football League and the National Football League. He appeared for the Kansas City Chiefs (1969), the Cincinnati Bengals (1969–1974), and the Philadelphia Eagles (1975–1977).

Born in Dortmund, Germany, Mühlmann worked as a bricklayer and part-time footballer after high school. He played as a goalkeeper for Schalke 04 from 1961 to 1966, a span that included the first Bundesliga season in 1963–64. In 1968, he played soccer in the North American Soccer League for the Kansas City Spurs.

His American football career began in 1969 with the Kansas City Chiefs, when he was 29 years old. Mühlmann established a reputation as one of the longest kickers in the game. On 4 September 1971, in a pre-season game against the Green Bay Packers, he sent each of his six kickoffs over the crossbar and into the endzone, denying the Packers a single kickoff return yard. He was the first kicker since the AFL-NFL merger to connect on field goals of 50 yards or more in three consecutive games.