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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The NFL saw something Thursday that hadn't been achieved since 1976 — a fair-catch free- kick conversion, when Cameron Dicker of the Los Angeles Chargers made a 57-yard kick before halftime of ...

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 ...

I know he is, and he did.” It took a number of circumstances for the Chargers’ Cameron Dicker to become the first kicker to convert a fair catch free kick since Wersching did it while with the ...