Was the Drop-kick ever used in the NFL or was it only in college football?
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The dropkick was used in the nfl, in fact it was very popular in the nfl untill the 1940's. The last dropkick was made on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006 when Doug Flutie, of the New England Patriots, drop-kicked an extra point during the fourth quarter of their 28-26 loss to the Miami Dolphins at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. It was the first successfull dropkick since Dec. 21, 1941 when Ray "Scooter" McLean converted for the Chicago Bears to beat the New York Giants 37-9 in the NFL championship game.
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In the original game of football, before some of the rules changed, the main basis of scoring was to either drop kick a ball, punt, kicking field goals, and running with the ball much like rugby.  As time went on, the rules evolved with the game.  Why does it need to make sense?  Why don't you call your football soccer?  I think it sounds better.
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Dallas vs Minnesota, December 28, 1975 , QB Roger Staubach threw a last second pass to Drew Pearson to win the playoff game.\n\nAfter the game Staubach was asked in an interview what he was thinking when he threw the game winning pass, he replied, "I just closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary".....and the NFL officially recognized term was coined.
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Flag football is a version of American football that is popular across the United States and Europe. The basic rules of the game are similar to those of the professional game, but instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In most organized play, players wear a belt with flags around the waist, but the number of flags vary from league to league.\n\nLike touch football, flag football was designed in an effort to minimize injuries that playing tackle football could bring. Over the years, however, contact leagues have emerged, where offensive and defensive players can block in certain zones or downfield, adding to the myriad styles of the game.\n\nThe game is now common among many high school gym classes as an alternative to contact sports.
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Since each discipline is quite different in terms of technique and motion, most teams (actually all NFL teams currently) would rather have separate players take on these roles. Not too mention risking a player that may be needed in a close game, thaty being the placekicker.\n\nThere have been players in years past that have done double duty and I believe the teams feel that one or the other disciplines suffer. Also, if this player is injured, than you have two starters out instead of one.\n\n- Placekickers are generally needed to kick off, and score field goals and extra points. Risking injury on a punt is not a good idea.\n\n- Punters practice different aspects of kicking and generally don't work on the timing needed for place kicking. They do sometimes help out if the placekicker is injured.\n\nOne of the last double duty kickers I remember was Frank Corral - Los Angeles Rams
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Drop Kick\nA kick in which the ball is allowed to hit the ground before it is kicked. It was effectively used as a method of kicking field goals in the early history of football, but unheard of today, although it is still legal.
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This isn't an accident, but I thought it was pretty funny. A long time ago (in the early 80s), I was watching a pro football game. This one defensive player committed a flagrant foul in clear view of the referees. When the play ended, the referee called a time out, calmly pulled out his penalty flag, walked up to the offending player, and tucked the flag into the gridiron of his helmet. As the player was shaking his head like a violent animal trying to make it fall out, the referee took two steps back, pointed at the offending player, and called him for unsportsmanlike conduct.
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well it's a ball you kick with your foot!\n\nEdit: english football, americans copied us!
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Wilson is the official ball of the NFL and does not have the stripes you are talking about.  The NCAA loves endorsement money (just don't give it the players), so companies like Nike can pay for their ball to be on the field.
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The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise of precisely this skilful technique dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. \n\nA military manual dating from the period of the Han Dynasty includes among the physical education exercises, the "Tsu'Chu". This consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30 - 40 cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes - a feat which obviously demanded great skill and excellent technique. A variation of this exercise also existed, whereby the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders whilst trying to withstand the \n\nattacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted. The ball artistry of today's top players is therefore not quite as new as some people may assume. \nAnother form of the game, also originating from the Far East, was the Japanese Kemari, which dates from about 500 to 600 years later and is still played today. This is a type of circular football game, far less spectacular, but, for that reason, a 'more dignified and ceremonious experience, requiring certain skills, but not competitive ' in the way the Chinese game was, nor is there the slightest sign of struggle for possession of the ball. The players had to pass the ball to each other, in a relatively small space, trying not to let it touch the ground.\n\nThe Greek game "episkyros", relatively little of which has been handed down, was much livelier, as was the Roman game "Harpastum". The latter was played with a smaller ball with two teams contesting the game on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a centre-line. The object was to get the ball over the opponents' boundary lines. The ball was passed between players and trickery was the order of the day. Each team member had his own specific tactical assignment and the spectators took a vociferous interest in the proceedings and the score. The role of the feet in this game was so small as scarcely to be of consequence. This game remained popular for 700 or 800 years, but, although the Romans took it to England with them, it is doubtful whether it can be considered as a forerunner of contemporary football. The same applies for hurling, a popular game with the Celtic population, which is played to this very day in Cornwall and Ireland. lt is possible that influences were asserted, but it is certain that the decisive development of the game of football with which we are now familiar took place in England and Scotland.\n\nThe game that flourished in the British Isles from the 8th to the 19th centuries had a considerable variety of local and regional versions - which were subsequently smoothed down and smartened up to form the present day sports of association football and rugby football. - They were substantially different from all the previously known forms - more disorganised, more violent, more spontaneous and usually played by an indefinite number of players. Frequently, the games took the form of a heated contest between whole village communities or townships - through streets, village squares, across fields, hedges, fences and streams. Kicking was allowed, as in fact was almost everything else. However, in some of these games kicking was out of the question due to the size and weight of the ball being used. In such cases, kicking was instead employed to fell opponents. Incidentally, it was not until nine years after the football rules had been established for the first time in 1863 that the size and weight of the ball were finally standardised. Up to that time, agreement on this point had usually been reached by the parties concerned when they were arranging the match, as was the case for the game between London and Sheffield in 1866. This match was also the first where the duration of the game was prearranged for one
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I agree with you totally. Football doesn't make much sense.\n\nI believe the game was originally called football because the players would kick the ball through the uprights for a score.\n\nWhatever, it should be called something else.
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You kick the ball with your foot, thus the term football.
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Both American football and soccer have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football.\n\nMcGill University athletes, who had learned rugby from the local British Army garrison, introduced the sport to the U.S. with a game against Harvard University in 1874. The game quickly spread to other Ivy League colleges.\n\nEncouraged by Yale University's Walter Camp, the schools began to adopt rules that would differentiate American football from rugby in the 1880s. The scrimmage was introduced in 1880 and the system of downs in 1882.\n\nBy the turn of the 20th century, football had become notoriously dangerous; 18 college players died in 1905 alone. Colleges responded with a series of rule changes to open up the game, most importantly the forward pass, along with outlawing dangerous formations such as the "flying wedge", and introducing and requiring better equipment such as helmets.\n\nThe game had achieved its modern form by 1912, when the field was changed to its current size, the value of a touchdown increased to 6 points, and a fourth down added to each possession. Originally dominated by the Ivy League, football soon captured the interest of colleges nationwide. By 1916, when the Rose Bowl game matching eastern and western teams became an annual event, football had developed a national following second only to baseball among team sports.\n\nProfessional football developed in the mill towns of Pennsylvania and the American Midwest in the early years of the 20th century. The NFL was founded in 1920 in Canton, Ohio. Professional football remained a largely regional sport of secondary importance until after World War II. Television broadcasts greatly enhanced NFL football's national appeal, and the pro game surpassed both college football and baseball in popularity in the 1960s. The first Super Bowl—between the champions of the NFL and the rival American Football League—was played in 1967, and the two leagues merged in 1970.
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Derived from the English game of rugby, American football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and coach at Yale University.
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i dont think there is one at all some kids go to the service first and then go to college   i remeber a QB from Florida St Wienke i belive was 28 and still playing in college..there also was a story last year about a 43year old kicker at  college
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This may help you:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29#The_Laws_of_the_Game
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Garo Yepremian did it against the Vikings on November 13th, 1966.  He was the only Lion to do it until Jason hanson matched him in 1999, again against the Vikings.\n\nhttp://www.nfl.com/history/randf/records/indiv/fieldgoals