Adam Vinatieri isn\u2019t in the NFL record book for the longest field goal, but he now is the Guinness World Record-holder for the highest field goal.<\/p>\n
The Hall of Fame kicker made a field goal from an altitude of 11,332 feet (3,434 meters) above sea level in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Vinatieri\u2019s record-setting kick took place at Jungfraujoch, known as the \u201cTop of Europe,\u201d on snow-covered ground with swirling winds. A Guinness World Records adjudicator was on hand to certify the achievement.<\/p>\n
\u201cSnow is simply part of my time with the Patriots,\u201d Vinatieri said, via a team news release. \u201cBut kicking a field goal at 3,454 meters is something completely different from anything I\u2019ve ever done. You feel the altitude with every breath you take. Your heart rate is different. Your rhythm is different. And no one can really tell you beforehand how it will affect the kick, because no one has done this before. The fact that we were able to set the record under these conditions makes me very proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event kicked off the Patriots\u2019 countdown to their Nov. 15 game in Munich and celebrated Vinatieri\u2019s legendary career. <\/p>\n
He last kicked in the NFL in 2019, retiring as the NFL\u2019s all-time leader with 599 field goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Vinatieri isn\u2019t in the NFL record book for the longest field goal, but he now is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-857323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}