How the league changed

Coaches finally trust the leg

Holds upThe record backs this up, season after season.

This one is in the FanIQ library with the full rule, the reason it works, and every season we checked.

Held in 18 of 25 seasons, from 25,676 records measured.

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How Football Quietly Rewired ItselfKickers tripled their long-range workload, the midfield punt is going extinct, quarterbacks run again, and every game hands out three fewer possessions than it did in 1999.
The Missed Long Field Goal Is a Hidden GiftMiss from 50-plus and the other team takes over right where the kick was snapped, near midfield. Counted properly, that miss costs about two full points versus simply punting.

FanIQ carries this one in full: the rule itself, why it works, the season-by-season record, and the related laws.