Jerry Kauric is a former placekicker

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 who played in both the National Football League

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 and Canadian Football League

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 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He played for the Cleveland Browns

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 in 1990, and before that played for the Edmonton Eskimos

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and kicked the winning field goal for the Canadian Grey cup 1987. That was the first year of his football career. After the Cleveland Browns Jerry played for Calgary Stampeders, he then went to Detroit Lions training camp where he was cut after breaking his foot.