We don’t see enough two-sport athletes these days. It’s such a cool phenomenon that we haven’t really seen in a while.
However, English soccer star Harry Kane wouldn’t mind taking a crack at it.
Because if he winds up in the MLS, he wouldn’t mind spending his free time on an NFL roster.
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According to The Athletic, Kane was recently quoted as saying that he was close to re-upping with the Bundesliga’s Bayern Munich. That led to a question about his plans beyond this next deal.
One of those plans was something he has reportedly talked about multiple times over the years, and that was switching sports.
He’s talked about golfing professionally, but this time he was focused on trading football for American football.
“That is something I will try and look at a bit more seriously,” he said. “It all depends on what happens in my career over the next five or six years, the motivation and what I want to do. The NFL is a lot more realistic than the golf one, let’s put it that way.”
But what had never come up before was the idea of Kane winding down his career stateside in the MLS while also moonlighting as a placekicker.
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“Maybe if I am in the MLS in the future or somewhere like that it might be a thing where you could connect the two, with the seasons,” he said. “But it is in the back of my mind because right now, I am feeling that I want to play as long as I can here.”
Nice save at the end. The team about to re-sign you probably doesn’t want to hear about your plans to play in the MLS and kick extra points on the side.
But do you know who does want to hear that? The rest of us.
That would just be a fun thing to watch, and Kane obviously has the leg to boot a pigskin quite a long way if he can nail down those pesky mechanics.
Which it looks like he may have already done.
At least a few teams are probably setting reminders to see what Kane is up to when his Bayern Munich deal is up.
Maybe it’s a pipe dream, but someone has to bring back two-sport professional athletes.
