The Chargers and kicker Cameron Dicker made NFL history against the Denver Broncos on Thursday night, earning three points at the end of the first half with the successful execution of a rare ...

You never know what you’re going to see on the football field, and Thursday night’s Chargers-Broncos was no different. In fact, the Chargers completed something that hadn’t been done in an NFL game in ...

Cameron Dicker's 57-yard field goal on a free kick after a Chargers fair catch Thursday night broke a record set by a Packers great against the Bears. The 57-yard free kick field goal by Chargers ...

Welcome to FTW Explains: a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Are you wondering what a free kick is in the NFL? We got you covered. At the end of the first ...

If you relish the obscure, the rare, and the unusual in sports, Thursday evening was for you. Dicker's kick—essentially a field goal attempted without contest from the defense—was made possible by a ...

We saw something pretty darn cool on Thursday night: Cameron Dicker booted a free kick after a punt fair catch before halftime of the Los Angeles Chargers' win over the Denver Broncos, with Jim ...

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Chargers pulled off a rare “free-kick field goal.” There are other oddball rules in the book if you dig deep enough. By Victor Mather The N.F.L. rule book is long. Some of ...

It takes a specific circumstance for an NFL team to try a fair catch free kick. That's why one hadn't been made in almost 50 years. On Thursday night, viewers got a lesson on a little-known rule: the ...

The NFL saw something Thursday that hadn't been achieved since 1976 — a fair-catch free- kick conversion, when Cameron Dicker of the Los Angeles Chargers made a 57-yard kick before halftime of his ...

It had not happened in nearly 50 years, but Thursday night's NFL game saw the first successful fair catch free kick since 1976. Just before halftime, the Chargers' Derius Davis called for a fair catch ...

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 ...