There are only a few hundred kickers in the world to have ever played professional football. Among the thousands of other players, the number who’ve been forced to attempt a kick in an emergency is no more than a few dozen. Of those brave souls, only four have ever struck the goalpost.

This is the non-kicker wing of the Doink Hall of Fame.

While most non-kickers enter this wing in a cloud of shame, Cowboys safety Jeff Heath stands as a "1 of 1":

Filling in for an injured Dan Bailey in 2017, Heath’s extra point attempt hit the upright and took a lucky bounce through. He remains the only non-specialist in known doink history to successfully convert.

The other three entrants were less lucky, highlighting the reason why every team in the NFL moved to using trained placekickers instead of other rostered players. When a defensive tackle or a punter is called upon to kick, the uprights become a magnet for disaster:

In 2010, rookie defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh stormed off the field after his missed extra point doinked off the upright against the Jets.

Tom Wittum and Ty Long were punters serving multi-game stints as the emergency starter when they found the unfriendly skies on field goal attempts. Wittum's 1977 miss came in a blowout loss for the Niners and is what is classified on this site as a "moot doink" - a doink where the kick's outcome could change and not impact the final outcome of the game. The same was not true for Ty Long, whose poorly timed miss could've altered the fate of the Chargers.

Four non-kickers, one doink each. One lucky bounce, three not so much. The successful conversion percentage here makes sense statistically, but in no way does it capture the absurdity and the gravity of these kicks.