How can a football record be made of over 100 yards when the field is only 100 yards long? Secondly, how long is the longest possible run using this ridiculous rule of setting a record longer t
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The field is actually 120 yards, there are two end zones that count as ten yards each. If you receive a kick in the endzone, the extra yards you run out of the endzone are counted statistically in the runback if you make a touchdown.
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To add to the kingcobra's answer, the longest possible touchdown pass or rush is 99 yards (ball spotted on own 1 yard line and play results in a TD). The longest possible kick return /fumble return /interception return is 109 yards, if a player gains possession of the ball at the very back of his own endzone and returns it for a TD... this happened this very Saturday when Antonio Cromartie returned a missed field goal for 109 yards and a TD for San Diego against Minnesota, a record which can never be broken, only equalled.
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You're bound to get daft statistics if you follow a game that is more about statistics than it is about the game itself. Try to put a bit of effort into getting to know a game that is more akin to an art-form than it is to warfare and you will lose interest in statistics and be more concerned with moments of sublime skill.
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well u could run an interception, kickoff, field goal that falls short, punt, back from one endzone to the other
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In the rule book it says the field is 100 yards long. I also dont understand the new way of describing runbacks over 100 yards. The best answer is the American facination with more, bigger, better. Its like the description of the weather on TV, with "wind chills and real feel" temperatures. Why then isnt a pass thrown from the ten yard line and caught on the twenty yard line a seventy yard pass, instead of being measured from the line of scrimmage? the quarterback was standing on the ten, so shouldnt that be where the measurement takes place? Is a field goal measured from the line scrimmage to the end zone of not? Or is it meaured from the point of kick to the goal post?
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