[4] Knight had been a soccer-style kicker in high school and college; long before Charlie Gogolak had made it popular while kicking at Princeton.
[5] He switched to straight-on kicking when, as an undrafted free agent, he was offered a tryout with the Dallas Cowboys.
[2] For the Sailors he played both kicker and punter, led the league in average punt distance and was named an All-Pro.
[2] In 1973, he helped the Redskins make it to Super Bowl VII where they lost to the undefeated Miami Dolphins.
With the Redskins down 14-0, he missed a 32-yard field goal in the 3rd quarter that coach George Allen called "an obvious turning point".
Before the 1974 season, George Allen brought in 14 other kickers to pressure Knight, who lost the job to Moseley.
[18] He was never picked up, though he turned down the Jets offer to be their interim kicker (which he found offensive), and he came to believe that he'd been blackballed from the NFL.