Chansky’s Notebook: The Irish Dream

Posted Sep 24, 2020
UNC punter Ben Kiernan grew up in Dublin on rugby and had never seen a game of American football, much less played one. His parents moved their family to Raleigh before Ben’s last year in middle school and he went out for the football team pretty much as a lark. He later went to a Charlotte kicking camp run by former Tar Heel kicker Dan Orner. (Chapelboro.com)

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