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The Buffalo Bills are haunted by wide right… again

The Buffalo Bills are haunted by wide right… again

Let us wind the clock back to January of 1991. The 13-3 Buffalo Bills have just made their first trip to the Super Bowl, where they would face off against their in-state (sort of) compatriots, the New York Giants.

Despite also being 13-3, the Giants were major underdogs to the high-powered offense of the Buffalo Bills. Yet New York put forth a defensive masterclass, orchestrated by then-defensive coordinator Bill Belichick, and held Buffalo to only 19 points.

Still, the Bills were in a position to win. Lining up for a 47-yard field goal attempt for the victory, Scott Norwood’s kick sailed wide right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPFZCGgjDSg

Fast forward to Sunday, January 21st, 2024. Buffalo is trailing Kansas City 27-24, and had lost the previous two playoff meetings. The Bills are trying to return to the AFC Championship for the first time since the 2020 season, having been knocked out in consecutive Divisional Rounds.

To tie the game and hope for overtime or a defensive stop, the Bills lined up for a field goal. This time, from 44 yards out. Unfortunately, the result was all the same.

They same time is a flat circle, and in the case of the Buffalo Bills, this is one nightmare they cannot seem to wake up from.

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Scott Norwood wide-right Super Bowl XXV jersey up for auction

The jersey Scott Norwood wore in Super Bowl XXV when his last-second kick went wide right is up for auction.

Not quite sure if a Buffalo Bills fan would want this or more likely a New York Giants booster. The jersey that Scott Norwood wore during the “wide-right” kick at Super Bowl XXV is now up for auction.

The high bid as of this writing is $27,000 and the auction ends in two days per the site.

The moment Giants fans will never forget and Bills fans obviously want to erase from their memory.

Have to wonder if a Bills Mafia conglomerate will put together a group to bid on it, win it and burn it.

‘Wide Right’ becomes a ‘Jeopardy!’ clue

“Wide right” from Super Bowl XXV between the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills has become a new Jeopardy! clue, kind of.

There’s no question which Super Bowl was the most exciting — and deflating — in the history of the NFL.

It was Super Bowl XXV between the New York Giants and the Buffalo Bills. The game was played amid the backdrop of the impending first Gulf War. There was a lot of uncertainty and unity in the air that was galvanized by a great football game.

The night began with a soaring version of the national anthem by Whitney Houston and a sea of waving American flags. It ended with a missed 47-yard field goal by the Bills’ Scott Norwood that gave the Giants their second Super Bowl title. Buffalo fans have always held fast that the loss to the Giants is the one that hurt the most even though the Bills returned to the big game in each of the next three seasons — only to lose all three.

The game has been memorialized in American culture over the years, and this week Norwood’s miss was a clue on the popular game show “Jeopardy!”

https://youtu.be/RPFZCGgjDSg

The Bills would go on to lose the next three Super Bowls (twice to the Dallas Cowboys and once to the Washington Redskins), but none of those three games was as close as this one. The Bills have not been back to the Super Bowl since, and have qualified for the postseason only once since 1999.

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