Using your feet in football - the field goal explained

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Published on Saturday, 03 December 2011 14:03
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Field goal is an excellent way of scoring 3 points in a professional match of American Football NFL. According to the rules of NFL, if an offense team does not get any success scoring through touchdowns they can try to kick field goals. Each field goal is worth 3 points and oftentimes it happens to be the deciding factor in the last few seconds of the NFL match. A field goal can be kicked from anywhere across the field. But most NFL teams find it easy to kick in the field goal from the 45-yard line of the defense team which is also the 4th down. The field goals are generally kicked by the placekicker also called ad the field goal kicker and to get it right he has to do it upright over the crossbar. The defense also gets a fair chance to block the kick and prevent the field goal from happening.

Another way of scoring points in a NFL match is through the safety that provides two points. When a ball carrier from the offensive team is tackled behind the goal line of own team it is considered a safety and the defense team is awarded two points.