Eagles just lost to a 62 yard FG?!?!?!

[KLin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvy_O_Ywi1o

Poor quality though.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: puffff

Originally posted by: Wreckem

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: Legendary
60+ yards in the NFL is half luck.

Really? Which half? The half where he's got a strong enough leg to get the ball there when most kickers couldn't? The half where he was good enough to kick the ball high enough from that distance to get it over the line when most kickers wouldn't? The half where he kicked it straight enough to make it? The half where he handled the do-or-die pressure with the game on the line?

That's not half luck, you're 100% ill-informed.

Its not half luck its pure luck. You wont be making to many 60+ yarders in an actual game.

because during the course of the game, you don't attempt many fgs from 60 yards. you get down to that part of the field, you punt to pin the team near their own end zone.

i'm willing to bet if coaches attempted more 60 yard field goals, we'd see a higher conversion percentage than you'd expect.

Um, the longer the field goal distance, the easier it is to block. That's why you don't normally see long field goals.

 

[thegimp03]

Oh yeah, I remember hearing about this but I had so much beer yesterday I didn't really pay too much attention.

Now I'll react: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EAGLES!

 

[akshatp]

Was so happy to see it go in as this is great for the rest of the NFC East...

Now Go Cowboys and whip dem G-men tonight.

 

[anxi80]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Here's an off beat question: How much did it clear the crossbar by? Without having seen it, I'm guessing "not by very much." In which case, why wouldn't you have the highest jumping player on your team attempting to block it at the goal post? There's no goal-tending in the NFL, like there is in the NBA, is there? And, if the kick falls short, the man catching the kick is allowed to return it.

r.c. owens!

Professional football player R.C. Owens nicknamed Alley Oop was considered one of the greatest leapers in NFL history. His jumping skills were so considerable that in addition to football he was also an accomplished athlete in both basketball and the high jump. In the high jump, in fact, he recorded a jump of nearly seven feet.

With this in mind, Owens and some of his teammates came up with the idea that Owens might be a formidable field goal blocker, only not in the traditional sense. They reasoned that longer field goals, if they make it at all, usually just miss the crossbar. So Owens decided to try blocking the attempt, not at the line of scrimmage, but in the end zone at the crossbar.

In 1962, Owens, playing for the Baltimore Colts, stood in the end zone and blocked a 40-plus yard field goal attempt by Bob Khayat of the Washington Redskins by leaping in the air and flipping the ball away as it was about to eke over the crossbar.

His victory was short-lived, because not long after, the NFL changed the rule and made this kind of block illegal.