Runback comeback: NFL kick-return TDs up

0 Comments | USA TODAY, November, 2007 | by Skip Wood

Coming soon to an NFL stadium near you: A kickoff return for a touchdown. Or so it seems, anyway.

Maybe it all started when Chicago Bears return man Devin Hester took back the opening kickoff of Super Bowl XLI 92 yards for a touchdown and an embrace of the "wow" factor.

Well, how's this for wow?

No fewer than 14 kickoffs have been returned for touchdowns this half-completed season. That's compared with a full-slate nine from a year ago and the record 18 of 1998.

So what's the deal?

Two notable former coaches with Super Bowl rings had slightly different perspectives when asked about it Tuesday.

*Said former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher, in his first season as an analyst for CBS: "I think it's cyclical, but...

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