The New England Patriots routed the New York Giants in front of a national television audience on ‘Monday Night Football’ at Gillette Stadium on Monday, Dec. 1.
The win was the streaking Patriots’ 10th in a row as New England owns the NFL’s best record after Week 13.
However, what fans might remember most from the Patriots’ 33-15 win over the Giants might be a real unfortunate moment for New York’s kicker, Younghoe Koo. It is arguably the biggest blooper of the 2025 season, and among the NFL’s biggest field goal blunders.
Here we’ve listed some of the all-time NFL field goal fails:
11. Younghoe Koo kicks FieldTurf
Down 17-7, the Giants already were in a bad way at Gillette Stadium against the Patriots. Koo lined up for a 47-yard attempt that could have trimmed New England’s lead down to seven. Instead, Koo’s boot came up short. Literally. He kicked into the artificial surface inches behind the ball. Giants holder Jamie Gillan had to pick up the ball and scramble. He was tackled for what will go into the record books as a sack.
10. Joe Nedney vs. Bears in 2005
They don’t call it the Windy City for nothing. On a mid-November afternoon at Soldier Field, Chicago lived up to its moniker as high winds wreaked havoc on the Bears’ matchup with the San Francisco 49ers.
Sporting a 3-0 lead in the final seconds of the first half, 49ers head coach Mike Nolan sent Joe Nedney out to attempt a 52-yard field goal. What the heck, right? What’s the worst that can happen? Well, the worst did happen. Nedney’s kick into a stiff wind pushed the ball well off target and into the arms of the Bears’ Nathan Vasher. Vasher collected the ball 8 yards deep in the end zone, eluded 49ers pursuers and scampered for an unlikely touchdown. After Vasher had one of the longest plays in NFL history, the Bears would go on to win, 17-9.
9. Lane Kiffin has Sebastian Janikowski attempt 76-yarder
Kiffin has been in the news lately for yet another ugly coaching exit. Two days before Al Davis had seen enough from his young head coach, the polarizing Kiffin sent Sebastian Janikowski out to attempt a 76-yard field goal during a game in Week 4 of the 2008 season. It did not go well. Davis fired Kiffin, and who can forget the press conference announcing the dismissal in which Davis used an overhead projector like a 1980s-era science teacher?
8. Cody Parkey double-doink in 2018 playoffs
NBC analyst Cris Collinsworth made ‘double doink’ part of NFL lexicon after the Bears’ Cody Parkey missed a 43-yard field goal attempt in an NFC wild-card playoff loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Parkey’s kick hit the uprights, then the crossbar before landing in the end zone.
‘The Bears’ season is going to end on a double doink,’ Collinsworth said during the game broadcast.
Parkey had made a habit of hitting the uprights, including four times in a game against the Detroit Lions.
7. Blair Walsh in 2015 playoffs
Walsh – who was a Pro Bowl kicker during the 2012 season – was put on the spot in a 2015 wild-card playoff game against the Seattle Seahawks. The game was played outdoors at TCF Bank Stadium – normal home to the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team – in the season before the team’s new stadium, TCF Bank Stadium, opened. In below-zero temperatures, the Seahawks and Vikings had played a low-scoring game. Minnesota, however, managed to get Walsh into position to move the team onto the divisional round, setting up the kicker for a game-winning 27-yard field goal attempt. Instead, Walsh missed badly and Seattle prevailed, 10-9.
6. Mike Vanderjagt in 2005 playoffs
The 2005 Indianapolis Colts were on a real heater. The team opened the season 13-0 before finishing 14-2. The Colts hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC divisional playoff game at the RCA Dome in what would be a memorable playoff showdown. After falling behind 21-3 to the Steelers, the Colts had rallied and down 21-18 had put kicker Mike Vanderjagt into position to tie the game. Instead, Vanderjagt missed badly on a 46-yard field goal attempt, and to top it off got penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct after the play.
Nearly three years earlier, Vanderjagt went on a cable TV show in Toronto and criticized future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and Colts coach Tony Dungy for a lack of competitiveness. Asked about Vanderjagt’s comments, Manning said ‘our idiot kicker who got liquored up and ran his mouth off.’
The 2005 playoff was Vanderjagt’s last game with the Colts. The Steelers, meanwhile, went on to win Super Bowl XL.
5. Tony Romo botches snap in 2006 playoff
The Seahawks defeated the Cowboys, 21-20, in an unforgettable wild-card playoff game in Seattle. The game is known primarily for a botched hold by Tony Romo on what would have been a go-ahead field goal in the game’s final minute. Cowboys kicker Martin Gramatica lined up for a 19-yard field goal with 1:19 remaining in the game. Romo was the holder (back when quarterbacks would occasionally take part in such plays). The snap from center slipped through Romo’s hands. The quarterback then picked up the ball and attempted to scramble for the end zone, but was tackled for no gain on what was a fourth-and-1 play.
4. Garo Yepremian in Super Bowl VII
About the only imperfect aspect of the Miami Dolphins’ perfect 1972 season was a crazy play on a blocked field goal attempt by kicker Garo Yepremian in Super Bowl VII against Washington at the L.A. Coliseum. Yepremian lined up for an attempt that if made, would have put the Dolphins up 17-0 in a 17-0 season. Instead, the kick was blocked, Yepremian picked up the football and tried to throw a pass. It was instead deflected into the hands of Washington’s Mike Bass who raced 49 yards for a touchdown. The Dolphins still won, 14-7, but Yepremian’s play lives in pro football infamy.
3. Billy Cundiff in 2011 AFC title game
The Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots met in a hotly contested AFC championship game that came down to the final seconds. Trailing 23-20 with 15 seconds remaining in the game, the Ravens sent kicker Billy Cundiff out for a game-tying 32-yard field goal attempt. Cundiff missed badly and the Patriots would go on to play in Super Bowl 46.
Adding to Baltimore’s misery was that Cundiff’s kick didn’t even need to happen. Two plays earlier, Ravens receiver Lee Evans couldn’t hold onto a Joe Flacco pass in the end zone. After Evans’ drop, Cundiff sealed the Ravens’ fate at Gillette Stadium.
2. Gary Anderson in 1998 NFC title game
The Minnesota Vikings were up 27-20 against the surprising Atlanta Falcons in the NFC championship game, and were in position to ice the game. With just over two minutes remaining, Vikings kicker Gary Anderson lined up for a 39-yard field goal attempt that would have given the Vikings a 10-point lead and nearly assured the team’s first trip to the Super Bowl since the mid-1970s. Instead, Anderson – who had made 39 consecutive field goals before this kick (no missed field goals or extra points during the entire 1998 season) – missed wide left. The Falcons had new life, marched down the field and scored the game-tying touchdown. In overtime, the Falcons kicker – Morten Andersen – booted the winner (a 38-yarder) and the Falcons were a stunning Super Bowl entrant.
1. Scott Norwood in Super Bowl 25
One of the greatest Super Bowls ever played ended on a missed field goal. Scott Norwood’s miss is a tempting butterfly effect debate. What would have happened had he made the kick? Instead, the Buffalo Bills went on to lose four consecutive Super Bowls. In an epic clash with the New York Giants, the Bills moved into position to win the game in the final seconds. Norwood’s 47-yard attempt sailed wide right and the Giants held on for a hard-fought 20-19 win.