{"609292":{"#nid":"609292","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Kick in the Pants","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne of the greatest moments in recent Georgia Tech football history involved a kick that didn\u0026rsquo;t even win the game. It came on Nov. 9, 2014, when then second-year hoofer Harrison Butker booted a field goal that would forever mint his legacy with the Yellow Jackets. On that day, Butker used his powerful leg to drive a football through the uprights for a 53-yard score against bitter rival Georgia, and sent a game most Tech faithful thought to be lost to overtime.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETech went on to win the game 30-24. Jackets players pruned the hedges. And Butker became Tech royalty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBy the time he played his final season for the Yellow Jackets in 2016, Butker had become Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s all-time leading scorer with 337 career points. In his final game, he went 4-for-4 in field goals\u0026mdash;including a 52-yarder in Tech\u0026rsquo;s TaxSlayer Bowl win over Kentucky.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nButker\u0026rsquo;s college career definitely earned him a chance to compete in the NFL. He started out with the Carolina Panthers, competing against long-time pro Graham Gano. Gano kind of took Butker under his wing, to which Butker partially attributes his success in his pro rookie season.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Panthers eventually cut Butker from the team, and he was picked up by the Kansas City Chiefs, where he had a stellar first year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo read more about Butker\u0026#39;s first pro season and how he uses his ISyE training to improve as a kicker, click here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/2n5JaBU\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2n5JaBU\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELosing the competition for his first NFL job helped Harrsion Butker (IE 17) score one of the best rookie seasons ever for a pro kicker.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"   ON THE FIELD A KICK IN THE PANTS  Losing the competition for his first NFL job helped Harrsion Butker, IE 17, score one of the best rookie seasons ever for a pro kicker."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2018-08-03 17:05:50","changed_gmt":"2018-08-03 17:05:50","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"609288":{"id":"609288","type":"image","title":"Harrison Butker at Georgia Tech","body":null,"created":"1533313527","gmt_created":"2018-08-03 16:25:27","changed":"1533313527","gmt_changed":"2018-08-03 16:25:27","alt":"Harrison Butker at Georgia Tech","file":{"fid":"232062","name":"magazine_butker_2_square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magazine_butker_2_square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magazine_butker_2_square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":349493,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/magazine_butker_2_square.jpg?itok=7z6e2LuW"}},"609289":{"id":"609289","type":"image","title":"Harrison Butker with the KC Chiefs","body":null,"created":"1533313611","gmt_created":"2018-08-03 16:26:51","changed":"1533313611","gmt_changed":"2018-08-03 16:26:51","alt":"Harrison Butker with the KC Chiefs","file":{"fid":"232063","name":"magazine_butker_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magazine_butker_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/magazine_butker_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":107325,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/magazine_butker_1.jpg?itok=E36V8kpe"}}},"media_ids":["609288","609289"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"172744","name":"Harrison Butker"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"178662","name":"Pro football"},{"id":"178663","name":"Kansas City Chiefs"},{"id":"172745","name":"kicker"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}