In 1965 my H.S. football coach gave me a football before the summer break and said, learn how to kick extra points. I had no one to hold the ball that summer so I started drop kicking. Never got to do it in real games, but in live scrimmage I drop kicked kicked out to 35 yds.. It was so easy it was ridiculous. Loved doing it, always got cheers from the team. It was all fun.
Decades ago, smaller HSs could not field 11 men teams. So we played 6-man foot ball. There was no way to get a player to hold the ball for either field goals or extra points. So we learned to drop kick. I recall in our league at least the drop kicked field goal was 4 points and the drop kicked point after a touchdown was 2 points. The key was to drop the ball on its side (not on the point) and kick the ball in the center of its side. I think I kicked three field goals and missed 2 in one game. The ball had to be dropped from about waist-high. It could not be placed on the ground before kicking. Because the side of the ball was essentially parallel to the yard markers, the kicker had to hit the center of the ball with his toe. No soccer kickers.
As a passionate dual fan of rugby and football fan, I can tell you now that teams with trained drop kickers would be lethal from around 55 yards and shorter. Drop goals are lucrative when used right.
@@LockedDownSpectator i was also thinking about AFL-style kicked passes, someone with good accuracy could kick farther, quicker than a hail mary style pass, I think
I have been saying this for years the only criticism I have come into is footballs are oddly shaped making them unpredictable when drop kicking.. football kickers are all about percentages and accuracy so no one wants to ruin that messing with a new style of kicking. The potential to change the game forever is there if someone is smart enough to make a good strategy with it .. to date people stick with what they know
When I was in 8th grade, my dad told me that he was going to teach me how to kick extra points because he was tired of watching us go for two, and not get it every time. He taught me how to dropkick, because that's the way he did it back in the 50's. When I was in high school, I never got to do it in a real game, but I kicked a 33 yarder to win our annual Green and White preseason scrimmage. Lol!
@@jorgechavez7211 Nope, actually happened. 1991 Pratt, Ks Green and White Soap Scrimmage. The only thing that was parody about it was I lined up in the shotgun when I was our starting tight-end. I was a qb until my sophomore year, so they were expecting some type of trick play, but they weren't expecting a dropkick.
yeh was telling blooz our dad taught my brother how to as a kid same 50s he was the backup kicker in hs in case the other boy got hurt my brother was a good kicker soccer but 35 range or so drop he just messed around with for fun later he was the travel club rugbys try kicker for many years and has range accurate because he had learned how to drop kick as kid and had an ex welsh pro helped him on technique
The Miami head coach, sullen Nick Saban, really had the best comment after the game. "Everybody tried it, fooling around in the backyard. But nobody thought anyone would do it in a game." With today's football, now made so fusiform to enhance passing, I think a good drop kick would be very difficult. NFL rules allow a special, treated ball for kicking. Still, It would be hard.
Nate ebner is a cool dude. Played professional rugby for team USA, and in rugby, almost everyone knows how to punt, and a lot of them also know how to drop kick, due to Rugby's very strict substitution rules, the best athletes are always on the field leaving a lot of times, the team captains kicking for the conversions as well as kicking off, which must be done without a tee. I was the team captain and kicker for my senior year in HS for rugby, but I was terrible at drop kicks. I could punt the length of the field and make it off a tee, but the team chose someone else besides me to kick off 🤣.
Seeing rugby onside kicks is crazy. I played in high school and we were losing a game in my sophomore year and our two best players did one and we went absolutely crazy. All you gotta do is just hang one super high an just basically do a jump ball like in basketball, but actually putting the kick in the right spot is the hard part.
Did you know that the NFL also has a color code for these kicks and when they will happen. Green is stationary field goal (place kick). Green is a commonly used color for referring to the ball is touching the grass or turf and is in "indirect" possession for a point to be scored. White is free-hand field goal (drop kick). White is a an uncommon but existing neutral color referring to the focus of a single player's position on the field, and where the ball is; in this case, the ball is in "direct" possession for a point to be scored.
I think it was ex Bears QB Jim McMahon, who used to practice the drop kick on his own, that said that the current ball differs from the ball the used in the 50's and 60's, in that those balls were slightly rounder. That made it easier to drop kick back then. And of course, Letterman used to be a big proponent of the drop kick back in the day.
I lose sleep thinking about all the different kicking styles yet they always stick with the same one. Someones gonna change the game one day mastering a drop kick
More height and more speed. Timing is essential for some field goals, and sometimes in modern day place kick attempts, the ball can never travel at high enough of trajectories. Drop kicks are very essential because of this reason. Greater angle of altitude and magnitude. If we look at the individual scrimmage assemblages of both a Stationary modern day extra point, and a free-hand older day extra point, it is actually much harder for the kicker to run to the placeholder and place kick the ball in time, rather than it is for the kicker to take their own possession of the ball and drop kick it in themselves. Modern style stationary place kicks, are straighter and easier to control, but they have less magnitude because an object that is hit off a bounce has a rikishay effect, thus, providing much better elevation on the ball. Older day drop kicks are much more vivid in a sense of scoring the extra point, and the thing is, this is the original kick of American football. Stationary field goal attempts from the modern days (place kicks), lack the height and speed that free-hand field goal attempts from the older days (drop kicks), traverse. When done correctly and with full power, If we were to put a place kick side by side with a drop kick and watch their total trajectories at the same time, the place kick would stay straight never changing its angels of steepness, while the drop kick would curve a bit depending on the wind, and it would take longer for the ball to fully desend. In total distances, the place kick would land first, the drop kick would evidently make it further. It is a necessity and a very important tool in the history of the National Football League... I've used them before and they are very effective.
Can this be done during a run play? Let's say the RB ran some yards then he sees that there's 3 guys coming for him and it's obviously the last play of the game and there's no where to go, can he attempt a drop kick for 3 points if he's close enough to the goal post
I thought a drop kick field goal meant the ball had to hit the ground and bounce up and then you kick it. If you can just drop and kick then why not have punters kick really long field goals?
@xRewiindzZ dropkicks and PATs are different. Dropkicking a ball after a touchdown doesn't have to be three points but dropkicking it outside the PAT should be.
How about this, your team is down 2 pts , last play of the game the opponent has punted to you on your 30 yard line you catch the ball as time hits 0 , you run it back 50 yards but 20 yards out you realize you can’t get into the end zone so you drop kick it thru the uprights for 3 pts and win game. Legal?
Surprise. Until the 1950s, the single wing formation put the quarterback in position to run, pass, punt or dropkick after taking shotgun snaps. You could even do it on the run if the play broke down. Distance wise, it's shorter range. Only a few guys tried them from 50 yards.
Does he have to drop it to himself or can someone drop it for him.. if so why don't they just bounce it back to kick a moving ball. That way the ball can go so much further than a standard hold... I understand footballs bounce unpredictably but with practice I imagine they could get a good system down
Having to kick a ball after it bounces off of the ground seems like a really risky move. You're not sure how a football is going to bounce on the ground.
@Paul Robinson Correct. The ball must bounce parallel to the ground. The objective is to slowly drop the ball so that there is very little bounce. The kickers toe must meet the center of the side of the ball. We would practice this for much time to execute it properly. It was entirely legal to have a squared-off kicking toe. Part of the excitement in 6 man football is a field 80 yards long 40 yards across. 10-yd inbound markers, 15 yards for a first down, in some leagues 3 downs instead of 4, and 3 men on the front line. With so few players on the field, scoring is often quite frequent.
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That’s actually the last time a drop kick happened as well
@@captainfangle2245 It was the last game of the season and the game was irrelevant (no change of seeding place)
One of the few times Chuck Noll smiled was when he let Ray Mansfield kick an extra point in a playoff game prior to Mansfield’s retirement.
@@RK-gz3mr every game matters for bill this is his legacy
In 1965 my H.S. football coach gave me a football before the summer break and said, learn how to kick extra points. I had no one to hold the ball that summer so I started drop kicking. Never got to do it in real games, but in live scrimmage I drop kicked kicked out to 35 yds.. It was so easy it was ridiculous. Loved doing it, always got cheers from the team. It was all fun.
That's a great story, thanks for sharing
damn OG. Good stuff. 2008 graduate.. what was high school like in the mid 60’s?
Decades ago, smaller HSs could not field 11 men teams. So we played 6-man foot ball. There was no way to get a player to hold the ball for either field goals or extra points. So we learned to drop kick. I recall in our league at least the drop kicked field goal was 4 points and the drop kicked point after a touchdown was 2 points. The key was to drop the ball on its side (not on the point) and kick the ball in the center of its side. I think I kicked three field goals and missed 2 in one game. The ball had to be dropped from about waist-high. It could not be placed on the ground before kicking. Because the side of the ball was essentially parallel to the yard markers, the kicker had to hit the center of the ball with his toe. No soccer kickers.
*Everyone else:* Stop trying to make the Drop Kick work
*Belichick:* NO
As a passionate dual fan of rugby and football fan, I can tell you now that teams with trained drop kickers would be lethal from around 55 yards and shorter. Drop goals are lucrative when used right.
Simply too slow and inconsistent for the NFL. The ball is much smaller and more oblong making it generally rather hard versus rugby drop kicks
@@Charge11 I respectfully disagree. I’ve done the math. There’s, like, a 0.01 difference in time between a football place kick and a rugby drop goal.
@@LockedDownSpectator i was also thinking about AFL-style kicked passes, someone with good accuracy could kick farther, quicker than a hail mary style pass, I think
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I have been saying this for years the only criticism I have come into is footballs are oddly shaped making them unpredictable when drop kicking.. football kickers are all about percentages and accuracy so no one wants to ruin that messing with a new style of kicking. The potential to change the game forever is there if someone is smart enough to make a good strategy with it .. to date people stick with what they know
When I was in 8th grade, my dad told me that he was going to teach me how to kick extra points because he was tired of watching us go for two, and not get it every time. He taught me how to dropkick, because that's the way he did it back in the 50's. When I was in high school, I never got to do it in a real game, but I kicked a 33 yarder to win our annual Green and White preseason scrimmage. Lol!
Great story
@@unusualsports1742 This is a parody of another comment, most likely because he thinks the original comment is bs lol.
The original comment was made by @bloozswami
@@jorgechavez7211 Nope, actually happened. 1991 Pratt, Ks Green and White Soap Scrimmage. The only thing that was parody about it was I lined up in the shotgun when I was our starting tight-end. I was a qb until my sophomore year, so they were expecting some type of trick play, but they weren't expecting a dropkick.
yeh was telling blooz our dad taught my brother how to as a kid same 50s he was the backup kicker in hs in case the other boy got hurt my brother was a good kicker soccer but 35 range or so drop he just messed around with for fun later he was the travel club rugbys try kicker for many years and has range accurate because he had learned how to drop kick as kid and had an ex welsh pro helped him on technique
The Miami head coach, sullen Nick Saban, really had the best comment after the game. "Everybody tried it, fooling around in the backyard. But nobody thought anyone would do it in a game." With today's football, now made so fusiform to enhance passing, I think a good drop kick would be very difficult. NFL rules allow a special, treated ball for kicking. Still, It would be hard.
Nate ebner is a cool dude. Played professional rugby for team USA, and in rugby, almost everyone knows how to punt, and a lot of them also know how to drop kick, due to Rugby's very strict substitution rules, the best athletes are always on the field leaving a lot of times, the team captains kicking for the conversions as well as kicking off, which must be done without a tee. I was the team captain and kicker for my senior year in HS for rugby, but I was terrible at drop kicks. I could punt the length of the field and make it off a tee, but the team chose someone else besides me to kick off 🤣.
I feel dumb for expecting to see actual drop kicks. I fully thought I would see that clip of Antonio Brown taking out that kicker.
You feel dumb; I feel let down. I just came from UFCs free fights.
lol notice that al lot of these are from the Pats?
Yep and then when the Ravens do it, it becomes illegal. Makes you realize how much the league loves Brady and the Patriots
Scieneering at least the Patriots can’t use it to screw the Ravens.
Because it’s Bill Belichick coaching all of these
@@HERKFOOT21 Maybe if Ravens were a better team, they’d get more perks outta it.
Doing a drop kick for an onside kick makes a lot of sense
Can't drop kick a kickoff since the ball is pre placed on the field rather then snapped
@@ricardo9013 It's in the video though
@@ricardo9013 It’s allowed
Nate Ebner plays rugby so I get why they had him do it
Seeing rugby onside kicks is crazy. I played in high school and we were losing a game in my sophomore year and our two best players did one and we went absolutely crazy. All you gotta do is just hang one super high an just basically do a jump ball like in basketball, but actually putting the kick in the right spot is the hard part.
Did you know that the NFL also has a color code for these kicks and when they will happen.
Green is stationary field goal (place kick).
Green is a commonly used color for referring to the ball is touching the grass or turf and is in "indirect" possession for a point to be scored.
White is free-hand field goal (drop kick).
White is a an uncommon but existing neutral color referring to the focus of a single player's position on the field, and where the ball is; in this case, the ball is in "direct" possession for a point to be scored.
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I think it was ex Bears QB Jim McMahon, who used to practice the drop kick on his own, that said that the current ball differs from the ball the used in the 50's and 60's, in that those balls were slightly rounder. That made it easier to drop kick back then. And of course, Letterman used to be a big proponent of the drop kick back in the day.
I was at Flutie's kick, and was so far away I didn't know what happened until the replay
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I lose sleep thinking about all the different kicking styles yet they always stick with the same one. Someones gonna change the game one day mastering a drop kick
More height and more speed. Timing is essential for some field goals, and sometimes in modern day place kick attempts, the ball can never travel at high enough of trajectories. Drop kicks are very essential because of this reason. Greater angle of altitude and magnitude.
If we look at the individual scrimmage assemblages of both a Stationary modern day extra point, and a free-hand older day extra point, it is actually much harder for the kicker to run to the placeholder and place kick the ball in time, rather than it is for the kicker to take their own possession of the ball and drop kick it in themselves.
Modern style stationary place kicks, are straighter and easier to control, but they have less magnitude because an object that is hit off a bounce has a rikishay effect, thus, providing much better elevation on the ball. Older day drop kicks are much more vivid in a sense of scoring the extra point, and the thing is, this is the original kick of American football.
Stationary field goal attempts from the modern days (place kicks), lack the height and speed that free-hand field goal attempts from the older days (drop kicks), traverse.
When done correctly and with full power, If we were to put a place kick side by side with a drop kick and watch their total trajectories at the same time, the place kick would stay straight never changing its angels of steepness, while the drop kick would curve a bit depending on the wind, and it would take longer for the ball to fully desend. In total distances, the place kick would land first, the drop kick would evidently make it further.
It is a necessity and a very important tool in the history of the National Football League... I've used them before and they are very effective.
Can this be done during a run play? Let's say the RB ran some yards then he sees that there's 3 guys coming for him and it's obviously the last play of the game and there's no where to go, can he attempt a drop kick for 3 points if he's close enough to the goal post
Don't think so
@@unusualsports1742 imagine a game getting tied like that damn
THey changed the rules recently so that you can only attempt a drop kick from behind the line of scrimmage
@@snowburnd bummer :/ but wait you're saying they changed the rules so such a play was possible in the past?
@@rkt3102 from what I've gathered, you could which makes me wonder why more teams didnt take advantage of this
Anyone else see bill belichick smile
I thought a drop kick field goal meant the ball had to hit the ground and bounce up and then you kick it. If you can just drop and kick then why not have punters kick really long field goals?
Serious question.. are you allowed to attempt a drop kick past the line of scrimmage?
I don't believe so
I wish there was more drop kicks
The drop kick should 2 pts instead of 1, like field goals
FG 3 points maybe..?
@xRewiindzZ dropkicks and PATs are different. Dropkicking a ball after a touchdown doesn't have to be three points but dropkicking it outside the PAT should be.
A drop kick during a regular scrimmage play is worth 3. Flutie's was only worth 1 because it was a PAT.
It is in Arena
How about this, your team is down 2 pts , last play of the game the opponent has punted to you on your 30 yard line you catch the ball as time hits 0 , you run it back 50 yards but 20 yards out you realize you can’t get into the end zone so you drop kick it thru the uprights for 3 pts and win game. Legal?
Lol search up best rugby drop goals those guys are insane
What is the advantage of a drop kick?
Surprise. Until the 1950s, the single wing formation put the quarterback in position to run, pass, punt or dropkick after taking shotgun snaps. You could even do it on the run if the play broke down. Distance wise, it's shorter range. Only a few guys tried them from 50 yards.
Does he have to drop it to himself or can someone drop it for him.. if so why don't they just bounce it back to kick a moving ball. That way the ball can go so much further than a standard hold...
I understand footballs bounce unpredictably but with practice I imagine they could get a good system down
first one the defense literally jus let him kick it 💀
0:23 WHAT
NRL players can drop kick a field goal well over 40 meters and from the sideline too
Its way easier to kick than a football tho
The safety kick could have been punted. No need to bounce it.
I don't get the point of this, why not just kick the 9/10 extra point?
The point is that Doug Flutie was retiring. Coach Belichick is a football historian. And drop kicking is cool.
0:40 that sums up america pretty much
can someone plsss tell me what the song is at 2:45
Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation
I would if but everyone on RUclips has to have advertisements and sell out.. when you click on 2:45... again another ad interupts the video
this was not the type of drop kick i was looking for...
was look for dudes literally drop kicking other dudes but I guess that's only in the movies🤣
Having to kick a ball after it bounces off of the ground seems like a really risky move. You're not sure how a football is going to bounce on the ground.
@Paul Robinson Correct. The ball must bounce parallel to the ground. The objective is to slowly drop the ball so that there is very little bounce. The kickers toe must meet the center of the side of the ball. We would practice this for much time to execute it properly. It was entirely legal to have a squared-off kicking toe. Part of the excitement in 6 man football is a field 80 yards long 40 yards across. 10-yd inbound markers, 15 yards for a first down, in some leagues 3 downs instead of 4, and 3 men on the front line. With so few players on the field, scoring is often quite frequent.
Americans should learn Aussie Rules drop punt
Who else came here looking for actual drop kicks 🤣
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@@unusualsports1742 Amen
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