Early Career

After college in 1978, Breech was selected in the 8th round of the 1978 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 had just been cut by the Bengals. Breech was later asked by Cleveland Browns personnel director Paul Warfield to possibly join the team as a replacement for injured Don Cockroft. However, not hearing back from Cleveland, he received a phone call from Bengal's assistant personnel director Frank Smouse. Breech was signed by the Bengals, and ended up staying there for the remainder of his career.

NFL Seasons

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 1,151 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 played in 9 postseason games during his career. In all of them combined, he missed just 2 field goals out of 11 attempts and never missed an extra point. 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 lead over the San Francisco 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. In 1999 he was inducted into the University of California Athletic hall of fame.

Career regular season statistics

Career high/best bolded

Regular season statistics
Season	Team (record)	G	FGM	FGA	%	<20	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	LNG	BLK	XPM	XPA	%	PTS
1979	Oakland Raiders (9-7)	16	18	27	66.7	1-2	7-7	7-10	3-7	0-1	47	0	41	45	91.1	95
1980	Cincinnati Bengals (6-10)	4	4	7	57.1	0-0	2-2	1-2	1-3	0-1	42	0	11	12	91.7	24
1981	Cincinnati Bengals (12-4)	16	22	32	68.8	0-0	9-11	7-9	5-11	1-1	51	0	49	51	96.1	115
1982	Cincinnati Bengals (7-2)	9	14	18	77.8	2-2	3-3	5-6	3-5	1-2	50	0	25	26	96.2	67
1983	Cincinnati Bengals (7-9)	16	16	23	69.6	2-2	7-7	5-7	2-5	0-2	47	0	39	41	95.1	87
1984	Cincinnati Bengals (8-8)	16	22	31	71.0	0-0	9-10	10-12	3-4	0-5	48	0	37	37	100.0	103
1985	Cincinnati Bengals (7-9)	16	24	33	71.0	0-0	7-8	12-13	4-6	1-6	53	0	48	50	96.0	120
1986	Cincinnati Bengals (10-6)	16	17	32	53.1	1-2	4-5	5-7	5-14	2-4	51	0	50	51	98.0	101
1987	Cincinnati Bengals (4-11)	12	24	30	80.0	0-0	6-7	12-12	6-11	0-0	46	0	25	27	92.6	97
1988	Cincinnati Bengals (12-4)	16	11	16	68.8	1-1	5-5	3-4	2-5	0-1	45	0	56	59	94.9	89
1989	Cincinnati Bengals (8-8)	12	12	14	85.7	0-0	9-9	3-4	0-1	0-0	38	0	37	38	97.4	73
1990	Cincinnati Bengals (9-7)	16	17	21	81.0	0-0	6-6	5-6	6-9	0-0	46	0	41	44	93.2	92
1991	Cincinnati Bengals (3-13)	16	23	29	79.3	0-0	9-10	8-10	5-6	1-3	50	1	27	27	100.0	96
1992	Cincinnati Bengals (5-11)	16	19	27	70.4	0-0	8-8	7-7	4-11	0-1	48	0	31	31	100.0	88
Career (14 seasons)		197	243	340	71.5	7-9	91-98	90-109	49-98	6-26	53	1	517	539	95.9	1246

Family

His son, Daniel Breech, played professional arena football with the Cincinnati Marshals in the National Indoor Football League.

Current status

Breech is currently a sales executive for the Hauser Group, an insurance firm in the Cincinnati suburb of Blue Ash, Ohio. He is the President of the Cincinnati chapter of the NFL Alumni and he is also on the board of directors for Kicks for Kids, an organization to help needy kids started by fellow former Cincinnati Bengals kicker, Doug Pelfrey.

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