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One fan made the most of the rare opportunity to see the Super Bowl in person this year. One of the reported 22,000 fans let into today’s game, in spite of COVID-19, made his way onto the field ...
NFL kickers have already attempted 61 field goals from 50 yards or beyond and have converted 37 of them, putting them on pace to smash both season-long records even if the league hadn’t tacked ...
A short video documenting the streakers focused on one person dashing quickly toward the middle of the field. The streaker made it near the 10-yard line before they were tackled by at least six ...
A study published in the journal Chance looked at every field-goal attempt made in the 2002 and 2003 NFL seasons, including playoffs, and concluded that, for "pressure kicks", i.e., those made with three minutes or less remaining in the game or overtime period which would tie the game or put the kicking team in the lead, for attempted kicks in the 40–55 yard range, icing the kicker caused ...
Much like Ove Johansson, whose 69-yard field goal in the NAIA in 1976 is the only field goal on record to have bested Borgognone's high school kick, Borgognone struggled to make the National Football League. He spent years bouncing between NFL training camps, mainly as a kickoff specialist (the NFL had prohibited the use of kicking tees for ...
In fact, during his career, Norwood was 1 of 5 for field goal attempts of more than 40 yards on grass, and with his longest field goal being 48 yards in that season. Norwood lined up for the 47-yard game-winning field goal attempt from the right hash of the 37-yard line, with Frank Reich the holder and Adam Lingner the long snapper .
The longest field goal in NCAA history is a 69-yard kick by Ove Johansson of Abilene Christian in 1976, but kickers were able to kick off a holding tee until 1989.
Call it the Kicking Kraze or the Field Goal Frenzy. There's both an art and a science to field goal accuracy, as Mike Westhoff, generally considered the best special teams coach in NFL history ...