Breeze
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Joined: 12/3/2005 From: Cherry Hill, NJ, USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Deltadog I don't know how they measure FG now, but if you look at the film of Tom Dempsey's 63 yard fieldgoal (Saints vs Lions) you can see that the holder placed the ball down on the 3 yard mark inside the line stripe with the round graphic. As the ball goes over the cross bar, you can see it was located right on the goal line. Then as the camera pans back to the kicker, you can see it pass the 50 and see the graphic on the 40. This means the ball was kicked from 3 yards inside the Saints 40 (37) which is 63 yards from the goal line and the cross bar. (The film is on the net, search using the name Tom Dempsey) This means they measured it from the point of the kick to the cross bar. To clarify: Back then, the goal posts in the NFL were on the goal line. So a 63-yard kick would come from the team's own 37. Now the goal posts are on the end line (10 yards back), so when Jason Elam tied Dempsey's record a few years ago, he kicked it from his own 47, and the ball traveled 63 yards to the goal post. So the measurment method hasn't changed, just the location of the crossbar has.
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