He also invented the Nerf football. The only game-winning free kick in NFL history came after Chicago's Cecil Turner called for a fair catch of a Packers punt at the Green Bay 43-yard line.

Here's a look at the obscure rule. Whenever a player makes a fair catch his team has the option to play a regular down or attempt a free kick. Or, as was the case on Thursday, if there is a foul ...

Free-kicks are rare in the NFL. How are they different from field goals? Check out the rules behind this unique play now.

I know he is, and he did.” It took a number of circumstances for the Chargers’ Cameron Dicker to become the first kicker to convert a fair catch free kick since Wersching did it while with the ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- Cameron Dicker made the longest fair catch free kick in NFL history at the end of the second quarter of the Los Angeles Chargers' 34-27 win over the Denver Broncos on Thursday ...

Corrections/clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated the distance of Dicker's kick. The Los Angeles Chargers just did something that hasn't been ...

The fair catch kick has its origins in rugby’s “goal from mark,” which has since been removed from the rugby codes. According to Quirky Research, “Mac Percival’s game-winning kick in ...

Chargers' Cameron Dicker made a rare fair-catch free-kick field goal from 57 yards out, the longest in NFL history. Only seven free kicks have been successful in the league.

Also according to the rulebook, the fair-catch kick is technically distinct from a free kick. The NFL only considers kickoffs, safety kicks or onside kicks to be free kicks and specifically states ...