Kickers have no room for error. Now a punter, with my life time of soccer, I could do. Yes they do, 18 1/2 feet. I meant in terms of past that. But then again, I was at the game where the Browns bounced a game winning FG off the cross bar back into the field. But the ever so incompotent ref's who initially called it correctly as a miss, caved to Browns coaches bitching saying it hit the back of the cross bar up right and bounced back. And against NFL rules, they brought the teams back on to the field after the end of the game to allow the Browns another kick that actually went through and litterly gave the Browns a free game. Nothing like breaking the rule book to give the game away.