FSU Football: Sebastian Janikowski delivers perfect quote when announcing retirement

Former FSU football star Sebastian Janikowski is hanging up his cleats and helmet after 19 seasons in the NFL, including 18 of them in Oakland.

In the coming seasons, fans of the FSU football team will get a chance to have another reason to visit Canton, Ohio – site of the Pro Football Hall of Fame – when one of the best players to suit up for the Seminoles in the last quarter century, kicker Sebastian Janikowski, will be inducted into the select group of some of the best players in football history.

That honor will now take place sooner than some had thought because of the news that broke on Sunday that the 19 year veteran of the NFL – one of just two players drafted in the 2000 class who were still active in the National Football League at this point – was calling it a career just one year shy of two decades in the professional game.

After a three year tenure with FSU football where he was virtually unstoppable with the garnet and gold – kicking the ball from 50 yards or more with accuracy and aim in helping to lead the Seminoles to a national title  in 1999 – Janikowski was taken in the first round by the Oakland Raiders in April 2000.

After almost two decades in the professional game – a run that included one Super Bowl appearance in his third season with the Raiders when they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Janikowski made it very clear that he is turning his life over to another important operation: safely transporting his three children.

Anyone who knows or who has spoken to the legendary former FSU football star during his time in the professional game knows that it is perfect to see Sebastian Janikowski have the mindset in order to both have fun with his decision while also realizing he spent almost two decades earning a lot more than the average NFL player should have for just kicking the ball.

Janikowski put an end to his time in the NFL after making over 80 percent of his field goals – 436 of them to be exact for those paying attention at home – while also missing a total of nine extra points in his 19 seasons. That’s right, he missed less than one extra point for every two seasons he spent in the professional game.

FSU football fans, or those who just appreciate football talent no matter what, know what the Raiders and the rest of the NFL are going to be missing this coming season without the big man in the No. 11 jersey kicking the ball with his left leg.