An NFL football field is 100 yards long. ... “Jaws” hit Quick at about the 20-yard line, and Quick did the rest. That’s right, this was a walk-off 99-yard touchdown. 9 of 15.

The NFL has moved the start line after touchbacks to the 35-yard line and tabled a vote on a potential ban on the tush push play. More inside.

Olympics flag football will come with its own set of tweaked American football rules: a shorter field, ... NFL scores, schedules, odds, stats ... back to the defense on its own 5-yard line.

Added another user named Michael Weinreb, “Superimposing yard-line numbers for television during a snow game should be a federal crime.”. Others suggested the feature was a distraction. “I ...

NFL’s kickoff proposal was separated into two votes today, one that passed, one that was tabled. 1) The football now moves to the 35 after a touchback – that passed.

Goalposts still rose from the goal line then—leading to oddities, such as a 9-yard field goal. In 1973, kickers made 543 field goals, accounting for 23% of the scoring league-wide. The next year ...

The touchback line is likely to stay at the 30-yard line. During a conference call with NFL reporters on Monday, NFL chief administrator of football operations Dawn Aponte said that it is "not ...

Now, there is greater consequences for such fear -- putting the defense out there just 65 yards from the end zone; 25 yards from field goal range. Kick and cover will be the more prevalent strategy.