Pro Career
As a rookie, Brien won a Super Bowl ring with the 49ers after their 49-26 victory over the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX. He holds the record for most PATs in a single postseason with 17, set in that 1994 season.
He is best known in the New York area for missing two potential game-winning field goal attempts in the final two minutes of the New York Jets' 2004 AFC divisional playoff game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was released by the team a couple of months after the game, but later signed by the Chicago Bears, from whom he was released later on in the 2005 season, which ended his pro career.
For his NFL career, Brien made 80.2% of his field goal attempts and converted 98.0% of PAT attempts.
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