Why It's Almost Impossible to Kick a 90-Yard Field Goal | WIRED
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2019
- The world record for an NFL field goal is 64 yards, but place kickers have sent the ball far further in practice. Is a 90-yard kick possible? To find out, WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez explores the physics of long kicks and gets a lesson from pro kicker Harrison Butker.
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Wow I always wondered why my field goal kicks always stop at 89 yards
😂😅🤣 you deserve least 890 likes
We both know you don’t deserve any tbh
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nevS ikr
I bet I kick a 90 yarder
Collab bro?! Double 70 yard field goals or something cool like that?
Bruh😂
7th like
I wish I knew how to kick
ik this kid would be here
*Someone kicks and makes a 90 yard field goal*
WIRED: *_Why It's Impossible to kick a 91 yard field goal_*
BrokenVortex u using a fricking Xbox profile pic
@@Jacobswick I did that on purpose to see if anyone would notice
Lol
Hhah
Should’ve asked Justin Tucker who just kicked a 66 yarder today.
I was Just about to say that
This was 2 years ago
Yup
Yep absolutely crazy
Also butker has kicked many 70+ yarders in practice
"You need the ball to launch with a high velocity... at the right angle and be accurate." This is groundbreaking man...
That's John Madden level insight
Thank God they brought in the intellectual heavy weights to really unpack this information. Other wise I would've assumed none of those were factors and you just had to kick the ball 90 yards to kick a 90 yard field goal.
Bo Brick no kidding
Analytic. It gives you quite an understanding of how kicking football works.
@@PhillyMotoXTS Yup...if no touchdowns are scored in a game...a team will win if it makes more field goals than the other. So whoever scores more points will come away with the win today. Boom.
“We need the ball to launch with a high velocity, at the right angle, and be accurate”
Insightful
spray ferdays yeah lol ‘expert’
Well, to be more specific, your foot needs to move fast af. That's key.
@@daviddou1408 there is always one of you..
A well-placed kick can make or break a game or sometimes even a Season.
* bears fans start sobbing*
I love it
I am a chiefs fan so...
Alex Smith Well I’m a bears fan and when Cody parkey missed that field goal, I died inside a little bit
Chilly Rizzo I would have died to
vikings and seahawks fans understand *Blair Walsh intensifies*
the3point shotz Yep. *Cody Parkey intensifies *
Justin Tucker reportedly hit an 87 yarder in warm ups this season 🤯
There’s no way that’s true, he would’ve easily made the 67 yard attempt if that was the case
@@zanmolecules4105 he made it off a kicking tee. Makes a huge difference
@@zanmolecules4105 People make ridiculous kicks in warm ups pretty routinely, during a game with a snapper, holder, and people blitzing with crowd noise, it is exponentially harder
@@zanmolecules4105 It's 100% possible off a tee. Deestroying hit an 80 yarder off a tee. (With video proof) Without the defensive pass rush you can angle the kick a little lower. In a game however you need to make sure the ball gets over the rush which limits it's distance.
I don’t know about that but I was at the Patriots-Ravens game in 2019, which was one of the funnest games I’ve ever attended btw, I saw Tucker throw a practice tee what seemed to 90 yards when he missed pregame.
That’s why I can only make an 89 yard field goal 🤔
Yeah this is an r/woosh
adam szautner for who tho
@@PC-qu7zk caleb
Same bro my 6'6 235 frame is god like, my calfs are the size of 2 babys
@@VGB34ST I thought Adam was trying to r/woosh you.
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Rusty Shackelford what’s sarcasm?
_Saucyam _ basically a joke
@@humanl4903 lmao
Wired: Why it's impossible to kick a ball over 90m
Mark Rober:
Lmaooo
Wired: why it’s impossible to kick a ball over 106 yards
That is the most underrated comment rn 🤣🤣🤣
@@whodini591straight up
It would be interesting to watch professional soccer players doing these field goals and seeing placekickers doing different free kicks
Many NFL kickers were once soccer players
Most NFL kickers were soccer players. Butker actually played soccer and wanted to be a professional soccer player.
Fr. Ederson could
@@q12aw50 I play soccer and am trying to be a kicker for our football team
Wrong sport one it is football not soccer and two Rugby players example George Ford Elliot Daley they all ready kick through up right posts
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They most likely have to pay for the whole of the footage and not 5 seconds, that makes in uneconomical for wired.
@@CastleAirsoft And it's probably expensive, the NFL isn't used to selling their content to RUclips channels but to TV
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It’s on RUclips and I found it for free
@@carnationvideos4258 some rando uploading it on a no-name channel is not the same as an established series drawing millions of viewers and running ads.
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Fax
Thanks you for saving me all that time 💯💯
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Meh go to an actual football field it really isnt that far tbh
@@joed3215 I bet you would miss an XP 😂
Nobody:
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Dude! ...Or dear Ms....That was seriously the funniest comment I've seen in months. Thank you.
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I have tho
It could be done if it was to beat the Lions
Ong
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Good one. I never thought of that.
Wired: it’s impossible to kick a 90 yard field goal
Deestroying:*hold my bang*
LOL
True
Lol
factsssssss
He could never kick a 90
1:52 Biomechanist says: kick it fast, and accurate.
YOU DONT SAY
That's why he's paid the big bucks
Oh yeah
Who else is here after Mark Rober?
Me 🤣
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Whos here after mark rober machine with 80% power shot for around 105 yards ?
Lol I was just about to comment this
I saw it yesterday
Game: Just imagine no one is there
Practice: Imagine a packed stadium
Christian Rizzo practice: imagine a packed stadium but pretend no one is there
Christian Rizzo lol a little odd isnt it? Hope for the best plan for the worst maybe
It works though
The weird thing is you're not training your brain to do the same thing as in a real game. That's why they sometimes pump in fake crowd noise, I feel like there has to be some real distraction you're actually trying to block out.
Practice how you compete, so a competition feels like practice.
1:52 "every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
Gucci Goya Beans hahahah
Without going to the time stamp I already knew you were making fun of lol
Why Africa? You racist goat
Lmao, I was hoping I wasnt the only one thinking what he said was pointless
Or does it?
One advantage Dempsey had is that the Lions basically took the kick as a joke and put no pressure on Dempsey's kick. He had a clear line to his target, no pressure, almost like kicking in practice. It was still the greatest kick I've ever witnessed in real time and he deserves his fame.
The snapper and holder have critical roles too with field goal attempts. It’s a shame they received no love in this segment.
Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago.
wearing flip flops
Eating subway!
Well moron, good for happy gilma-ma-ma omg.
LOL
best
Dude signed a 5-year, $20.3 million contract on June 13th, 2019.
Teaching my son how to kick.
sole ua 😂
@@joshfreeman9011 smart man good money for your son and zero concussions
REALLY??? He couldn't even make a 25 yarder in this video! Oh...u mean the tall guy.
@@joshfreeman9011 - Me too...also teaching him Chinese, how to code, and paid for acting lessons w/ an agent. He should be good at one of them eventually.
Mark Rober:
Hold my beer!
Who’s here after he kicked the game winner against the Vickings
me
and now he won tge super bowl
In that raiders game where Janikowski attempted the 76 yard field goal, he was kicking 90 yarders in practice all morning and told the coach if he wanted to try it today would be the day.
Mason Crosby came up maybe a yard short on a 69 yarder off of a free kick. Janikowski's crazy 76 yard try was actually against a defense.
Let me answer the title and save everyone 15 minutes: it's too far
No one could have guessed that 😂
It's to Far out too: get it in-between without it losing height or going off, to get enough umff (spelling?) on it, etc.
@@kalijasin Umph
Is it being too far the problem though? 60 yards is too far for me, but not for a professional.
@@kalijasin I thought "umff" was perfectly acceptable. (The "p" is silent anyway.)
We had a kicker in junior high school kick a kickoff through the end zone right between the uprights. It was 6 man football so the field was only 80 yards, but it was still impressive for a 15 year old to kick a football 70 yards in the air.
a 15 year old in junior highschool?
Little does he know his team is gonna win the super bowl
Didn’t age well did it
@@pmode are you stupid? they won the 54th Super Bowl
@@pmode Didn't age well did it
We brought in the biomechanist.
Biomechanist: he uses his uh plant leg to whip his uh kicking leg around.
Paycheck earned.
I thought his first line was funniest.
"You have to kick it with enough velocity, and height, and accuracy"
Thanks Mr. Scientist.
He does build robots too.
Thanks I always wanted to know why I kept getting 59yrds
The Bears need you
I Can't State an opinion on the Internet u are underrated my friend
I made 110 before
@@humansaredumfuckthemtodeat9461 Oh sweet. You made a 110yd FG and I'm dating Alexa Bliss!
@@JoeyJordison97 and i drive a Lamborghini and a dodge demon at the same time racing myself
One reason the Dempsey record stood for so long was the rule change that put missed field goals at the line of scrimmage, not the 20 yard line if missed. That was HUGE factor that limited really long FG's for a long time, unless it was the end of half or end of game.
And now it’s at the place the ball was kicked so attempting these super long field goals is even crazier
@@sportsqbz8773 A lot people these days don't even realize there was a rule change, they think the ball was always placed at the line of scrimmage. Also, if Dempsey was playing today he wouldn't be allow to use the special shoe he used then, which made his leg more of a club than a foot.🙃
@@rickden8362 although scientific tests have shown that his club foot was actually a disadvantage, because he had less total contact with the surface of the ball
@@technoturnovers7072 My comment had nothing to do with his foot deformity, but the fact that he had more chances at long range FG's. since there was not ''penalty'' there is today(bringing the ball back to the line of scrimmage).
What advantage his deformity did give him was having less ''leverage error'' since the contact point of the ball was lot closer to his ankle over other head on kicker of the day. I'd also like to see a link to the study you site. 🙄
@Paul Gaither It's not up to me to go chasing links a poster references(if they actually exist), It's their obligation to provide them. Additionally, there are ways to reference a link address in a post that let you deduce how to find the link.
“Now its the off season for butker. So he doesn’t want to blow his leg out showing me up”
*Proceeds to kick a 50 yarder*
🤣🤣😂😂😂😬
Actually, many freshmen kick 50yarders, so a pro makes it quote easilly
Someone: (makes a world record)
Wired: it’s almost impossible to do better
bro im dead haha
Joe Rogan: it’s entirely possible
Lmao just turn up the sliders to 100
That's impossible, the sliders only raise to 99
@@jacobhanekamp2534 only let downs say that.
Bet.
We had a dude in high school who hit a 75 yard in practice, but his game record was 52 yards. He was also captain of our school's soccer team. The guy gave up 4 different full ride scholarships to D1 schools as a place kicker for a community college soccer scholarship for his associate degree.
😭
Most of us would say he's crazy, hopefully he has a good reason he can look back and not regret. Who knows his family could of been in financial problems, parents could of been sick or dying...
That has to be fake, Justin Tucker can’t even kick that far
Someone kicks and makes a 90 yard field goal
WIRED: Why It's Impossible to kick a 91 yard field goal
Mark Rober : Okay we'll see about that (Makes a robot that kicks 105 yards)
I came back hoping to find this comment. Thank you, have a great Super Bowl tonight.
@@mrpriesident8452 you're welcome
Lol was about to comment the same thing
There've been 4 67 yard field goals in the NCAA. The issue with these long attempts is you need to be in a last play of the game situation in which you are down 2 points and then you have to weigh if you trust your kickers leg or your QBs arm and receivers jump ball more.
So you’re telling me you made a video about football kickers and somehow neglected to mention JUSTIN TUCKER!
Shut up. Just shut your idiot face.
Jordan Helton so true
bkbj8282 why
Jordan Helton as much as I love butker, tucker is just a whole different being
@@peteisspidey4451 Having kicked with both of them at camps over the years I can agree, but they both are amazing. You have to remember these are the 32 best at their respective jobs in the world
World record: exists
Wired: wow, what a coincidence. that’s 1 less than impossible.
Who’s here after Mark Rober’s video?
It’s exactly this video
Who cares
The NFL should make like an MVP award but like a kicker of the year award. Just a thought.
College football has it; an award for the placekicker, and the punter. One for the best of each in the league. I do believe I think the NFL should do the same.
They only go to QBs
..... But why?
cxL3B there’s one in madden
There is, it's called Justin Tucker!
"Why it's almost impossible to beat Super Mario Bros in 4 minutes and 54 seconds" I feel like would actually fit this series format well.
To be fair Summoning Salt has been doing those documentaries for years now. He's got that topic covered better than anybody else.
Or Pokemon Red speedrun record
@@TheLastWanderingBard While I agree that is has already been covered by a few people, who might even do a better job, I feel like a WIRED video could help get that out to a wider audience that may not have even known they were interested in the subject!
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This is an excellent discourse on long kicks with all the physics. Especially when you consider how the parameters of accuracy change. Execution of the snap and the hold have a lot to do with it. Long attempts have a higher probability for blocks, and maybe this has to do with ball speed coming of the hold. Given all that, I think a lot of reluctance to attempt long place kicks has to do with the confidence of players and coaches. The philosophy of the 3 pt ball in basketball changed, so could this. You'd think long attempts would be more common in the CFL, where misses are awarded with 1 point non-returned, or else terrific field position.
Justin Tucker has over 90% accuracy on his career and if you forgot, he nailed a 63 yarder to win the game on a MNF against the detroit lions. Best kicker the world has ever seen. Power and accuracy wise.
Not one clip or mention of him on here. No offense to the others, but they should analyze him. Well said.👍🏼
He drilled 66 at the end of a game two years ago.
And then he hit 66 yards to beat the lions again😂
Next do why it's almost impossible I can't get a girlfriend
We already know why
Because girls find bad grammar or stupidity hot?
Awww :( 🤗❤
More than almost
Oof
If you look at the slow mo, it's amazing how long the kicker stares at the ball location even long after the actual kick occurs.
Very fun and informative video. Thanks man!
This has actually changed my perspective of being an NFL kicker.
If McAfee was given the chance all those years ago he'd have it😂😂
William Kirk faaax
Wym
Patty
Well written, well spoken. Solid video!
It’s so cool to know that this was filmed at my university
When my parents ask why I don’t get friends: 6:25
😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😩😩😩😩😩
this is true 💯%
Gold
lol
LMAO 💀💀
So that's why I topped out at 89.98 yards 🤔
Key word "almost" so get out there and practice!
My record is 89.99
I hit 90! Oh, yards not feet. Nevermind..
10:55 okay 41. U should’ve went and blocked that. Maybe even 33.
One reason the Dempsey record lasted so long was the change in rules spotting missed FG's. The rule change to spotting missed FG's at the line of scrimmage meant teams stopped taking the real long FG's unless at the end of game or half.
The kicker on my highschool team kicked the person holding the football and broke his hand. That kid was funny though
Yoo thanks for all the likes before this the most amount of likes I had was like four. I appreciate you guys.
BEasy 98 LOL
Are you serious? He had to feel terrible about that.
Yah he drove him to the hospital and waited for his visit to be done. They were all good sports about it though
Oof
Ooooooooof
Ibrahimovic could make a 200 yard field goal
Legs the size of the actual field goal post
He’ll make the ball fly in itself
Soccer=gay
@@octivz835 your dad must be a soccer then
Mutombo Says burrn
You should know about the fair catch rule (on punts), it allows you to use a kickoff as field goal attempt. That method could easily break the standing record.
“i mean kicking, a lot of it is mental” this quote has never rang truer than in that dallas vs bucs game the other week
Shout out to Harrison Burker and Georgia Tech football. Go Yellow Jackets! Love my team.
Burker ?? 😂
swag - Lol. Meant to say Butker.
You guys should’ve got Deestroying he got a leg on him
Pablo Da God doesn’t he kick it further than 60 yards or sum??
Dee ain’t that good
So do I
Dad joke
@@percozet4770 not in pads and in game any NFL kicker can kick over 75 yard in practice
@Mr. Toxic in practice the NFL kickers can kick 70s 5 too times in a row
That overkill kick at 5:08 and the guy's reaction really gets me
Crazy how this was recommended after Brett Mahers monsterous 63 yarder
Former husker!
WIRED: it’s impossible to kick a 90 yard field goal
Dee: hold my bang
The NFL shouldn't withhold video rights on educational clips.
If you're talking about that 70+ attempt (that failed), that should fall under fair use anyways. Of course even if you are on the right side of the law you could still have to deal with well paid lawyers and an annoying trial.
Had a buddy in high school and he kicked a 54 and 49 yard field goal in the same game. He was a freak of nature. He could drop punt a soccer ball the length of an adult soccer field at like 16.
I litterally saw that dempsy kick love on tv and it was so obvious the shape of the shoe had everything to do with it .his handicap was acctually a plus for tjis one task
We used to practice this as kids in the backyard, as soccer players lol. All the place kickers we had in high school were soccer players, one is a free agent for the NFL right now. He's bounced between practice squads.
One question...
WHERE IS JUSTIN “LEGATRON” TUCKER ?
But isn't Zuerlein the actual "Legatron"?
That shoe absolutely gave him an advantage. A straight kick is more powerful than a scoop kick, it just isn't used for field goals because the curve of your shoe makes it easy to veer off the wrong direction. The scoop kick used for field goals is used because the flat part of the inside of your foot makes for a more consistent launch angle.
Nobody:
Wired: let's add some numbers in front of the world record and say it's almost impossible
Look up the records for the top scorers in football history.
All of them are kickers with thousands of points.
Kickers have the longest careers by far. The current record holder Adam Vinatieri is in his 24th season this year. The former record holder in Mortan Anderson played for 25 years in the nfl and if you go down the list a couple more you have George Blanda who played in the NFL for 26 years. The key to getting that record is longevity because there will never be a running back that stays in the NFL for 26 seasons
There are also strategic reasons not to necessarily attempt a super-long FG. If you miss it, you give the opponents great field position. So you may as well either go for it or punt. Almost every 60+-yard field goal attempt, including Dempsey's and Prater's, have come at either the end of the game or end of the 1st half.
Good point.
yeah basically unless it's the SB, your QB1 is injured and it's the last seconds so trying a 70+ yarder is the only way to win you are generally better off with a hail mary
Weird how after 15 minutes, they never actually address the question.
Yeah I was wating for that too !
At about 13 minutes they say how much foot speed would be required
You just need a faster foot
2 minutes in, thanks for the save!
I was a chiefs season ticket holder.i was at a game were Morton Anderson and joneacoski were puttering on a show before the game just to see how far they could kick it of the tee threw the uprites .lets just say...it was very impressive.
"that precise power and foot angle is what enabled Matt Prater to kick the longest field goal in NFL history" That and the thin air of Denver.
Watch the video next time
Fabrice Bacquart 9:04 :)
Graham Gano kicked a 63yd in Carolina...
My grandpa told me when he was in his prime he could kick 3 mile field goals
Against the wind, in the snow, up hill both ways.
He for sure could. I measured them.
“In high school that would have been good”
“Exactly”
“Too bad I’m…32”
“ok”
No one
Blair Walsh: misses a 27 YRD field goal
Stop
47 til ♾ you a mad Vikings fan
In 1992 I worked with the weight training center at the U. of Nebraska, and dreamed of using motion capture to help kickers hone their form. The project never took off because motion capture was way too expensive at the time, so it was very gratifying to me when this video showed people using motion capture at Nebraska. Yes, yes, Nebraska still loses a lot these days, but even so it was great fun to see a decades-old idea come to fruition. Thanks for another well-made video.
Gbr
One big thing that should have been mentioned: Game situation. Unless the clock is winding down to nothing, coaches will always are reluctant attempt really long field goals because if the kicker misses, the other team gets the ball back in great field position.
I have a lot of respect for what these guys do under that kind of pressure.
ya....cuz they get paid millions of dollars...its there job....
“It’s unclear if it helped him” dude his foot was a literal hammer of course it helped him
actually, espn sports science deduced that because there was a smaller contact area for the kick, it increased the margin for error, without giving him an advantage on distance.
13:25 I'd say #4 distinct advantage a soccer ball is round
They were only talking about foot velocity. The ball doesn't matter for that.
You mean football cuz that thing is not a ball and feet aren't the main body part they use
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Great video, but what you didn't mention that the record 63 yd field goal November 8th 1970 by a kicker with half a foot and a modified shoe. Thomas John Dempsey (born January 12, 1947) has an amazing story. I can say I saw it live.
i think he did mention the mod shoe....
There's another bigger reason why the record is rarely broken. Far kicks are rarely attempted. If you miss, the other team takes over at that line of scrimmage, giving them good field advantage. That's a big risk, like going for a 1st down on 4th and not making it. And actually going for the first down may be a higher probability of success. So you would only really risk a long field goal attempt at the very last seconds of 2nd or 4th quarter. A lot of teams don't seem to feel any pressure to try anything end of 2nd quarter for some reason, and how many times is a team down by more than 3 points 4th quarter forcing them to go for a touchdown instead. Just a rare day when everything is lined up to make a far field goal attempt useful.
Well in the CFL Eddie Johnson for the Saskatchewan Roughriders kicked a ball through the goal post on a kick-off 75 yards away
That's a lot different, it happens all the time in the NFL. On kickoffs you get a proper run-up to the ball, giving you much more kinetic energy to kick the ball with. On a field goal kick, you only have a 2 step run up, making it much harder to generate momentum.
Lot of Nebraska Cornhuskers and I love IT!!
NFL: can’t kick 90 yard goal
RUGBY LEAGUE : hold my beers ...
Don't know much at all about League, has a 90 yard kick ever been done? I know the record in Union was 70 yards
i think it would be very interesting to get data on the angle the ball is held at by the placeholder, whether perpendicular to the ground or at some angle is best for distance
I started to get heated when you showed Saints player #5 as an example of "You're either the hero or the villain at the end of the game depending on how well you do" 0:23 but then I realized that isn't our current kicker Wil Lutz #5, that's our OLD kicker Garrett Hartley who I remember got fired after missing two field goals in a single game (one of which was only 26 yards IIRC).
@7:10 Wired: The faster you kick the ball the faster it moves. 🤔
Mark Rober: hold my glitter box
0:34 DUDE!! I’ve played at that stadium! It’s right by where I live!!
It’s UWW