Doug Brien

Doug Brien

Date of birth:	November 24, 1970 (1970-11-24)
Place of birth:	Bloomfield, NJ
Career information
Position(s):	Kicker
College:	California
NFL Draft:	1994 / Round: 3 / Pick 85
Organizations
As player:
1994-1995 1995-2000 2001 2001 2002 2003-2004 2005	San Francisco 49ers New Orleans Saints Indianapolis Colts Tampa Bay Buccaneers Minnesota Vikings New York Jets Chicago Bears
Playing stats at NFL.com

Douglas Robert Zachariah Brien (born November 24, 1970) is a former American football placekicker. He played twelve seasons for seven teams in the National Football League: San Francisco, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Tampa Bay, Minnesota, New York Jets, and Chicago. Brien was picked in the third round of the 1994 NFL Draft (85^th overall) by San Francisco out of the University of California, Berkeley.

High school career

Brien attended De La Salle High School in Concord, California, where he was a placekicker for the Spartans' football team his senior year.

College career

At California, he left leading the school in all-time points with 288 points, and in field goal accuracy, hitting 56 out of 80 attempts, hitting 80% of his field goals for his career. Off the field, he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He graduated with a B.A. degree in Political Economy of Industrial Societies (PEIS) in 1994.

Pro career

As a rookie, Brien won a Super Bowl ring with the 49ers after their 49-26 victory over the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX. He holds the record for most PATs in a single postseason with 17, set in that 1994 season.

He is best known in the New York area for missing two potential game-winning field goal attempts in the final two minutes of the New York Jets' 2004 AFC divisional playoff game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was released by the team a couple of months after the game, but later signed by the Chicago Bears, from whom he was released later on in the 2005 season, which ended his pro career.

For his NFL career, Brien made 80.2% of his field goal attempts and converted 98.0% of PAT attempts.

External links

• kicking.com - Doug Brien
• NFL.com - Doug Brien

Preceded by Paul Edinger

Chicago Bears Kickers 2005

Succeeded by Robbie Gould