Investment Banker Hits One-In-A-Million Kick Alstodt’s 35-Yarder Perfect, Earns Him A Quick $1 Million

On this occasion, both teams rushed out and mobbed the kicker.

Lance Alstodt, an investment banker from New York, coolly boomed a 35-yard field goal through the uprights Sunday to win $1 million in the “Hershey’s $1 million Pro Bowl Kick!”

“I think the only way to go with something like this is that you believe you can drill it,” Alstodt saidHis fiancee, Deborah Zimmerman, said, “I don’t think he was nervous at all. I was.”

Alstodt had one chance, one kick for the $1 million at halftime of the Pro Bowl.

A former high school soccer player, Alstodt teed the ball up, took a few strides to set himself up, and wasted no time taking the kick. The ball was almost dead center from the start, and with plenty of distance.

Alstodt, 26, already was waving his hands and doing a little hula dance as the ball sailed through the posts. He called the dance “my hand dance.”

Then the NFC and AFC all-stars, who remained on the field to watch the million-dollar try, gleefully mobbed him.

“I was kind of ticked off; I wanted to do my dance. I felt like saying, ‘Reggie (White), Barry (Sanders), get off me and tell them, ‘My people will call your people,”’ Alstodt said, tongue firmly in cheek.

The first player to congratulate him was Carolina Panthers kicker John Kasay. “He shouldn’t give up his day job. But he made more than I did this season.”