Matt Prater of the Denver Broncos on Sunday kicked a football between two vertical posts stationed 18-and-a-half feet apart from a farther distance than anyone ever before during an NFL game.
In other words, Prater set an NFL record for longest field goal with his booming 64-yard score against the Tennessee Titans. Here's a video, which the NFL rushed to share on Twitter:
Matt Prater. SIXTY. FOUR. YARDS. #NFLRecordMUST-SEE: http://t.co/IRCKB0PtM1— NFL (@nfl) December 9, 2013
The previous record was 63 yards, so Prater nabbed the record by just one yard. But, as the Broncos' official site notes, "He's made field goals from 70-yards or longer in practice," so sports fans may see an even more astounding record by the time his career is done.
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