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Chargers players had no idea what was going on when Cameron Dicker successfully made a fair catch free kick vs. the Broncos.

Los Angeles Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker just did something no NFL player has done since 1976. What is a fair-catch kick?

After the two teams exchanged timeouts, the Chargers trotted out Cameron Dicker for the 57-yard, fair-catch kick. Dicker knocked the football through the uprights for the first successful fair ...

A free kick is sort of like a field goal, but not really. Players line up a bit more like a kickoff, where everyone on offense must be behind the line of scrimmage when the ball is kicked. On defense, ...

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 ...

Just before halftime of Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Denver Broncos, Chargers punt returner Derius Davis settled under a punt attempt and waved his arms for a ...

Dicker attempted and completed the NFL's first fair catch kick since 1976 ... The 59-yard free kick was exactly the type of momentum the Chargers needed heading into the locker room, as they ...

I know he is, and he did.” It took a number of circumstances for the Chargers’ Cameron Dicker to become the first kicker to convert a fair catch free kick since Wersching did it while with the ...

The Los Angeles Chargers just did something that hasn ... kicks to be free kicks and specifically states that a fair-catch kick "is not a free kick." There's also this from Rule 10, Section ...

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 ...