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In gridiron football, a touchdown after time expires or a field goal (or, much more rarely, a successful fair catch kick in American football or an open-field single point in Canadian) kicked as time expires can be described as a "buzzer beater," though no actual buzzers are used in that sport.
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...
In gridiron football, untimed play occurs in the following situations: Extra points following touchdowns are attempted without the clock ticking (except in arena football, which uses a continuously running clock except in the last minute of a half) If the clock expires while a play is in progress, the play continues untimed until the ball is dead
A football field as seen from behind one end zone. The tall, yellow goal posts mark where the ball must pass for a successful field goal or extra point. The large, rectangular area marked with the team name is the end zone. Football games are played on a rectangular field that measures 120 yards (110 m) long and 53 + 1 ⁄ 3 yards (48.
Gridiron football (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ d aɪ. ər n / GRID-eye-ərn), [1] also known as North American football, [2] or in North America as simply football, is a family of team sports derived from rugby football (and football, by extension) primarily played in the United States and Canada.
A walk-off touchdown is a touchdown scored in gridiron football that ends the game with the winning team being either behind or tied in points at the beginning of the play. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is considered [ by whom? ] the most spectacular and rare play during regulation time happening in the 4th quarter when the winning team is losing at the ...
4.6 Gridiron football codes. 4.7 Field hockey. 4.8 ... the officials must watch an instant replay of a potential buzzer beater to determine if the shot was released ...
Buzzer beater, in a timed sport where the clock, and not the play, determines the end of the game; Kicks after the siren in Australian rules football; Sudden death (sports), situations where the next score results in the end of the game; Walk off the Earth, a Canadian band