Claim: Video clip shows kicker Shaun Suisham booting a 110-yard field goal.
Example:[Collected on the Internet, June 2008]
Is this video fixed? 110 yard field goal
Origins: The video clip linked above supposedly shows Washington Redskins placekicker
Shaun Suisham booting a 110-yard field goal — quite an achievement, (even if it was done on a practice field rather than in a real game), given that the NFL record for longest field goal is a comparatively paltry 63 yards (a feat accomplished twice, by the New Orleans Saints' Tom Dempsey in 1970 and by the Denver Broncos' Jason Elam in 1998).
However, the clip is not real, nor was it produced through staging techniques such as filming the shot on a shortened field or attaching a football to wires and having an out-of-frame helicopter fly it the length of the field. As a follow-up video demonstrated, the clip was produced by creating a composite video from two different takes, the first of which had the cameraman capturing a real kick and then making the camera follow an imaginary 110-yard flight path, and the second of which captured a close-up of the ball only: