Seahawks
The doink story of the Seahawks in 5 chapters.
Chapter 1
Tony Zendejas went 3 for 3 on field goals in the Kingdome that day, capping a season where he went 17 for 17 - clean on field goals all year, with one missed extra point as the lone blemish. He accounted for every Rams point in the loss to Seattle, and he added a made doink to his trophy case to boot. In the stands was Jason Elam, then 21 and two years from his own NFL debut. Years later, in a 1998 Colorado Springs Gazette article, Elam remarked: "Zendejas kicked three field goals that day, and two of them hit the uprights and bounced through. That just proves you need a little luck sometimes." (Elam misremembered the count - only the second kick doinked.)
Chapter 2
The first game of the 1998 NFL preseason had two stories the box score wouldn't tell you. Seahawks rookie running back Ahman Green scored his first professional touchdown (the start of a career that would land him as Green Bay's all-time leading rusher). And Cowboys kicker Richie Cunningham doinked twice in a single game: a missed extra point in the third quarter, then a 46-yard field goal in the fourth, either of which would have flipped the one-point margin. There's a third oddity, harder to spot: This game wasn't the official 1998 Hall of Fame game, despite what the Cowboys' site may lead you to believe; it was played on July 31st, a day before that year's HoF game.
(Sourced from newspaper archives - no video known to exist.)
Chapter 3
Have you ever wondered what it would look like to have an NFL production team analyze the mechanics of a single doink? Well, trade your wonder for 2 minutes of Kevin Harlan and Sam Wyche obsess over the details of Seahawks' kicker Todd Peterson's lone blemish on a day where the visiting Seahawks rolled the home team.
Chapter 5
Old habits die hard, especially for Blair Walsh. As the new kicker for Seattle, Walsh faced his former team in the preseason. In the 2nd quarter, Walsh hit a off kilter attempt that barely made it to the crossbar. We may not know the loudest doink, but this is almost certainly the quietest.