Re: Drop Kick rule from Longest Yard
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I was watching the orginal LONGEST YARD movie and there was a scene where a player kicked a drop kick and Burt Reynolds says its legal and worth 2 points.
Questions-
1) Explain the drop kick to me
2) Is it still legal int he NFL
3) If number 2 is no, when did the NFL stop allowing it
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1) The drop-kick involves a long snap to the kicker, who drops the ball and kicks it off the ground. Basically the one-man "place kick".
2) Yeah, its still legal. Just nobody does it anymore because of a few reasons:
Its damned hard to do well.
There's a lot of very good placekickers out there.
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