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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 3874033" data-attributes="member: 1515">Indeed, and this is something that was almost unheard of until a couple of years ago.  Up until 1973 or '74, the NFL had their goal posts at the goal line, not the end line (a move that was made, IIRC, in the 1930s or 1940s, to encourage scoring), and, at that time, it was reasonably common to return long FG misses (since there was 10 more yards of real estate to play with).  When the goal posts were moved back to the end line, returning missed FGs became very uncommon, mostly because very, very few of them landed in the field of play.But now, we've now seen three super-long TDs on such plays in the past 3 seasons (Chicago's Nathan Vasher in '05, Devin Hester last year, and now Antonio Cromartie on Sunday).  It's still a bit of a freak play, because it only really works on a long FG that lands short, and in the end zone (although it looked like Cromartie leaped up to catch the ball before it sailed past the end line), but it's a damned exciting play when it works.  I imagine that, if they haven't already, special teams coaches will start to put a couple of fast coverage guys on the FG kicking team for long FGs, just so they have a chance of chasing down a Hester-type.</blockquote>