It doesn’t take a genius to work out the risk associated with longer goal kicks when building an attack. While some players are stronger aerially than others, it’s called a 50-50 for a reason.

The official NFL Wilson football weighs 0.91 pounds. A football's launch speed is 74 miles per hour for a typical punt, 93 miles per hour for a kickoff, and somewhere in between for a field goal.

But since a tweak of football’s laws in 2019, the once-humble goal kick has become an increasingly integral part of how a club chooses to build up play.

A 57-yard field goal attempt made more sense than a Hail Mary attempt, so Harbaugh opted to kick. Free kick field goals are extraordinarily rare.

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There have been two field goal makes in the history of UIL state championship games. The longest was a 42-yard kick from Witherral's Scott Gage in 1981 and the other was 26 yards from Borden ...

Challengers in chief Arsenal rank second in this regard, with the Gunners taking 37.8 seconds on average to take a goal kick. Newly-promoted Ipswich take 37.7 seconds, while third-place Newcastle ...

According to TNT Sports Chile, the goal was scored from a distance of 101 meters which, if ratified by Guinness World Records, would break the record for the longest range goal in history.