Biography stenerud footballer

Jan Stenerud has had two recurring dreams during his 70 years.

The NFL Hall of Famer and Montana State legend’s story of growing up a prodigious skier in Norway before transforming into the only kicker in Canton makes it seem like Stenerud has been living a dream all his life.

“I have two dreams: one is that I’m standing on top of a ski jump and I can’t wait to go down because the feeling of flying through the air — and you could fly a lot higher in those days — is so much fun,” Stenerud said as he stood atop a podium placed on the Bobcat Stadium turf on Thursday morning in Bozeman.

“But I would always wake up before I hit the hill. Now the other dream, I’m in the locker room before a game in the pros and because I can’t find a shoelace or a chinstrap, I can never get to the field on time. I wake up before I go on the field and for some reason I feel relieved.

“What I’m saying is the pressure must have been much stronger than what I ever realized it was because it n