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Fred William Cox (December 11, 1938 – November 20, 2019) [1] [2] was an American football kicker who played for 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings. After playing college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers , he was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the eighth round of the 1961 NFL draft and by the ...
Rank Player Position Career Points 43 Jerry Rice: Wide receiver: 1985–2004 1,256 62 Emmitt Smith: Running back: 1990–2004 1,052 74 LaDainian Tomlinson
Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the middle goal posts (worth six points) or between a goal and behind post (worth one point). The Melbourne Football Club published the first laws of Australian football in May 1859, which predates American football by at least 10 years, and making it the oldest of the world's major football codes.
The 1950 Los Angeles Rams, the best offensive team in NFL history in terms of average points (466 in 12 games, 38.8 PPG), scored 70 points, one of only three teams to ever do so. The following week, they beat the Detroit Lions 65–24, including an NFL record 41 points in one quarter. They are the only team in NFL history to score 60-or-more ...
When Groza retired for good in 1968 after 21 seasons in professional football, he held NFL career records for points scored, field goals made and extra points made. [54] He had 234 field goals, 641 extra points, and 1,349 total points in the NFL. Counting his AAFC years, his career point total was 1,603. [54]
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) runs during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans.
Teams would often add black players and release them soon after to give an appearance of recruiting more black football players. [17] By 1960, the NFL's new competitor, the American Football League, actively recruited players from smaller predominantly black colleges that had been largely ignored by the NFL, giving those schools' black players ...
A solid backup quarterback only seems like a luxury until the starter goes down. So we ranked all 32 NFL teams on their No. 2 options and beyond.