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James Thomas Breech (born April 11, 1956 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football kicker in the National Football League, who played for Oakland Raiders in 1979 and Cincinnati Bengals from 1980-1992. Before his NFL career, Breech played for the University of California.

After graduating college in 1978, Breech was selected in the 8th round of the NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, but was cut by the team before the start of the season. He spent the 1979 season with the Raiders, but they cut him in the 1980 pre-season in order to sign kicker Chris Bahr, who ironically enough, had just been cut by the Bengals. Breech then found himself unemployed until he received a phone call from Cleveland Browns assistant personell director Paul Warfield, asking him to come to join the team and fill in for injured kicker Don Cockroft. However, before his scheduled visit to Cleveland, he received another phone call, this one from Bengals assistant personell director Frank Smouse. Breech decided to join the Bengals, and ended up staying there for his entire career.

In his 14 NFL seasons, Breech made 243 of 340 field goals (71.4%), 517 of 539 extra points (95.9%), and scored 1,246 total points. His 1,152 points with the Bengals are a franchise record. He is second all-time scoring in consecutive games with 186 consecutive games, and he was a perfect 9 for 9 in overtime field goals, an NFL record. Breech also played in Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIII, was perfect in both games, not missing a field goal or extra point in either one. In Super Bowl XXIII, he kicked 3 field goals and scored 10 of Cincinnati's 16 points in the game. When his third field goal gave the Bengals a 16-13 over the San Fransisco 49ers with just 3:10 left in the game, it appeared there was a strong possibility he would become the first kicker ever to win the Super Bowl MVP award. However, the 49ers ended that chance by driving 92 yards and scoring the winning touchdown with 34 seconds left in the game.

Breech is currently a sales executive for the Houser Group, an insurance firm in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash, Ohio.

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