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 ...

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.

Also according to the rulebook, the fair-catch kick is technically distinct from a free kick. The NFL only considers kickoffs, safety kicks or onside kicks to be free kicks and specifically states ...

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 ...

At 57 yards, it was the longest fair catch free-kick ever 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 ...

Harbaugh got an opportunity to utilize what he called his favorite rule in football: The fair-catch kick. According to NFL rules, if a player makes a fair catch, his team may attempt an ...

Corrections/clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated the distance of Dicker's kick. The Los Angeles Chargers just did something that hasn't been ...