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jwarrenw13 -> RE: Record breaking field goal in (American) National Football League to win game (9/27/2021 6:11:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay
They changed the rules after these types of goals. Before, a fail put the ball on the 20 yard line. Now it's placed on the spot the kick was made from. So...no more such attempts, except at the very end of games.
Yes, they did, as kickers got more accurate from much longer distancess. They also changed a rule after Tom Dempsey kicked his 63-yard field goal in 1970. Dempsey was born without toes on his right foot, his kicking foot, and wore a modified shoe with a squared off flat front surface. Some said that gave him an unfair advantage. So, to quote Wikipedia...
"The league made two rule changes in the subsequent years to discourage further long field goal attempts. The first was in 1974, which moved the goal posts from the goal line to the back of the end zone, adding ten yards to the kick distance, and awarded the ball to the defense on a missed kick at the spot where the ball was snapped. This was changed in 1994 to the spot of the kick. Then, in 1977, the NFL added a rule, informally known as the "Tom Dempsey Rule", that "any shoe that is worn by a player with an artificial limb on his kicking leg must have a kicking surface that conforms to that of a normal kicking shoe."
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