>....but were afraid to.
>
>Just a couple that come to mind-
>
>1. In North American football, why are the punter and place
>kicker two different positions? Like one guy can't do two
>things well? Or are those skills sufficiently difficult that
>you need two specialists?

they're called specialists for a reason, those are 2 completely different skills, sure most can do both jobs and all lot of them did at the amateur level and some of them are the "emergency backup" of the other position in the NFL but but generally at the highest level its hard enough to do one of those things consistently let alone both. Some coach way back in the day thought it was important enough to devote separate roster positions for each skill and everybody else followed suit. Long-snapper is a similar position.