"Sean Edward Landeta" is a former American football punter (American football)/punter who played in both the United States Football League and the National Football League. Landeta played 22 seasons in the National Football League for five different teams between 1985 and 2006. Landeta was named to the 1980s All-Decade Team as the first punter and the 1990s All-Decade Team as the second punter, as chosen by the Pro Football Hall of Fame/Hall of Fame Selection Committee members.

Landeta played almost half of his career for the New York Giants, where he won two Super Bowl ring/championship rings in Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXV. He also played for the Rams, Buccaneers, Packers and Eagles. Landeta led the NFL in punts with 107 in 1999, led the NFL in gross punting in 1994 with a 44.8 average, led the NFL with a 37.8 net average in 1989, and led the league with 24 punts inside the 20 in 1990.

Before his pro career, he played college football at Towson University in '79, '80, '81 and '82. He led the nation in punting (NCAA Division II) in 1980 and was named First-Team All American in 1982 (NCAA Division II). Landeta was elected to the Towson University Hall of Fame in September 2005, and to the NCAA Division II College Football Hall of Fame in November 2006.

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[The Cowboys have now blocked six punts in their last 11 games, including the playoffs. Some teams go through a season without even one block.] We usually protect and get it off quick, ... But today there was a breakdown up front. Today, there was that one in a hundred thing that goes wrong.

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If I punt in games the way I punted today, ... life will be good.

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You're not doing it with a team in an organized fashion, but I try to do everything, as much as I could, the same. I needed to do that to have the best chance at getting signed.

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It's just so great to get an opportunity to play again. I loved playing here. I've played in Philly before, and I'm just so grateful that teams, if they need help, will consider me to come back and get a chance to play.

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Up to that point, our punt team had done very well, ... Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

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