Free-kicks are rare in the NFL. How are they different from field goals? Check out the rules behind this unique play now.

A free kick is sort of like a field goal, but not really. Players line up a bit more like a kickoff, where everyone on offense must be behind the line of scrimmage when the ball is kicked. On defense, ...

At 57 yards, it was the longest fair catch free-kickever made in the NFL. What is the free-kick rule, and why is it so rare? According to the NFL rulebook, a free kick is a kickoff, safety kick or ...

The Los Angeles Chargers line up for a rare fair catch kick against the Denver Broncos. / @NFL Cameron Dicker and ... to play a regular down or attempt a free kick. Or, as was the case on Thursday ...

The only game-winning free kick in NFL history came after Chicago’s Cecil Turner called for a fair catch of a Packers punt at the Green Bay 43-yard line. Percival then connected on his kick with ...

The Los Angeles Chargers took advantage of one of the most obscure rules in the NFL rule book on Thursday night when they successfully converted a fair-catch free kick during their 34-27 win over ...

The play known as the “fair catch free kick.” Governed by Rule 10, Section 2, Article 4 of the NFL Rulebook, this states: After a fair catch is made or is awarded as the result of fair catch ...

We saw something pretty darn cool on Thursday night: Cameron Dicker booted a free kick after a punt fair catch before halftime of the Los Angeles Chargers’ win over the Denver Broncos ...

Los Angeles Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker just did something no NFL player has done since 1976. What is a fair-catch kick?

The Chargers and kicker Cameron Dicker made NFL history against the Denver ... half with the successful execution of a rare fair-catch free-kick field goal. So what's a fair-catch kick?

It takes a specific circumstance for an NFL team to try a fair catch free kick. That's why one hadn't been made in almost 50 years. On Thursday night, viewers got a lesson on a little-known rule ...