Here's a look at the obscure rule. Whenever a player makes a fair catch his team has the option to play a regular down or attempt a free kick. Or, as was the case on Thursday, if there is a foul ...

But what is a free kick? And what’s this about a fair catch kick too? Well, let’s check out how ForTheWin alumn Nate Scott described the last free kick we saw in the NFL, when the Carolina ...

He also invented the Nerf football. 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.

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 ...

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

There is a rule that says that any time a team makes a fair catch, it has the right to a free kick of the ball, which the opponent is not allowed to attempt to block. Of course, this almost never ...

A fair catch is described by the league as “an unhindered catch of an airborne scrimmage kick that has crossed the line of scrimmage, or of an airborne free kick”. When the ball is in flight ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Cameron Dicker made the longest fair catch free kick in NFL history at the end of the second quarter of the Los Angeles Chargers' 34-27 win over the Denver Broncos on Thursday ...

The Chargers trailed 21-13 at the half against Denver but only after Cameron Dicker hit a 57-yard fair catch kick at the end of the half. Wait … a what? Let us explain. According to the NFL rulebook, ...

Chargers' Cameron Dicker made a rare fair-catch free-kick field goal from 57 yards out, the longest in NFL history. Only seven free kicks have been successful in the league.