Kick returner means kickoff returner in the football world. A renaming should happen, but certainly not a merge. A Google search of "kickoff returner" yields roughly 26,000 results. (Or at least it did last night.) A search of "kick returner" yielded about 457,000 results. "Kick returner" is a vastly more common term. This is an open-and-shut case.►''''''Holla!