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Since I have ao-hell, I noticed as soon as I signed on Thurman Thomas was on the front page, basically aol has a poll for biggest Superbowl Blunder and Thurman losing his helmet was in the poll, but winning the SB blunder poll is Scott Norwoods wide right, but there is also an interesting article on him as well. Here it is. To the mods, if you have to edit this or delete it etc I understand, I just know that there are a lot here who do not have aol so it's cool if you edit it or whatever.
Achieving Super Bowl Infamy by a Foot
By Sal Maiorana, AOL EXCLUSIVE
Scott Norwood has moved on with his life and has tried his hardest to forget about the 47-yard field goal that he missed in Super Bowl XXV, costing the Buffalo Bills a victory. He just wishes everyone else would move on, too.
AP
"It was an emotional time. I just felt bad for the people," Norwood says of his famously failed kick.
Steve Sabol, President of NFL Films, feels bad for Scott Norwood. He really does. But Sabol has a job to do, a business to run, and every year at Super Bowl time the requests pour into his office for the tape of what is arguably the most famous field-goal attempt in football history, Norwood's 47-yarder that sailed wide right and prevented the Buffalo Bills from winning Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Fla.
"Requests shoot up during Super Bowl time," Sabol said, adding that "The Miss" is among the top 25 most requested highlight tapes of all time. "It tends to get replayed a lot that time of year."
Sabol's family has been preserving the NFL on film for about as long as the technology has been available. He has seen a lot of good plays, bad plays, memorable plays, history-changing plays. But few have had the impact of Norwood's kick.
"In the history of the Super Bowl, this is the only instance where it came down to a win-or-lose, all-or-nothing proposition involving a kick," said Sabol of the kick that allowed Bill Parcells' Giants to escape with a 20-19 victory over Norwood and the no-huddling Bills. "I just think it's so unfair that fans have persecuted Norwood for this kick. It was the most pressure-packed kick in football, and he just sliced it a bit."
Norwood was Buffalo's all-time leading scorer until Steve Christie came along and broke his records in the late 1990s. "The Miss" did not break him, as he played one more year and scored 110 points plus made a late game-winning field goal in the AFC Championship Game against Denver to vault the Bills into Super Bowl XXVI. But he retired after the Bills were blown out by Washington, moved to Virginia where he became a financial advisor, and rarely associates with the Bills' franchise.
"A lot of people thought my life was ruined, but nothing could be further from the truth," he said. "I'm very happy and contented. I have a loving wife, three children who keep me very busy, and a lot of fond football memories. Sure I wish I had made that kick, but my life didn't go into a tailspin."
His wife is from the Buffalo suburb of West Seneca so he occasionally comes back to Western New York for family purposes, but outside of his appearance at a charity flag football game organized by former Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly in July 2002, no one in football has had much contact with Norwood.
"I wasn't so much hurting because of the kick itself," Norwood said. "The kick was about the people. It wasn't about anything else. It wasn't about monetary gain or some great stature for myself or anything else. When you talk about the Buffalo Bills, it really is about the community and the people who support it. They had a lot of emotions invested in us. It was an emotional time. I just felt bad for the people. It wasn't a short one by any means. My stance has always been that I was there to kick the ball. In that instance, I didn't do my job and I didn't get my job done. I take responsibility for that."
Two kickers who made field goals to win Super Bowls, New England's Adam Vinatieri in 2002 and Jim O'Brien of the Baltimore Colts in 1972, feel terribly for Norwood.
"Everyone knows the Scott Norwood situation," Vinatieri said. Added O'Brien: "I felt really badly for him. And I know it's just a kick and it's just a game, but I'm sure glad I made mine."
By Sal Maiorana, AOL EXCLUSIVE
Scott Norwood has moved on with his life and has tried his hardest to forget about the 47-yard field goal that he missed in Super Bowl XXV, costing the Buffalo Bills a victory. He just wishes everyone else would move on, too.
AP
"It was an emotional time. I just felt bad for the people," Norwood says of his famously failed kick.
Steve Sabol, President of NFL Films, feels bad for Scott Norwood. He really does. But Sabol has a job to do, a business to run, and every year at Super Bowl time the requests pour into his office for the tape of what is arguably the most famous field-goal attempt in football history, Norwood's 47-yarder that sailed wide right and prevented the Buffalo Bills from winning Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Fla.
"Requests shoot up during Super Bowl time," Sabol said, adding that "The Miss" is among the top 25 most requested highlight tapes of all time. "It tends to get replayed a lot that time of year."
Sabol's family has been preserving the NFL on film for about as long as the technology has been available. He has seen a lot of good plays, bad plays, memorable plays, history-changing plays. But few have had the impact of Norwood's kick.
"In the history of the Super Bowl, this is the only instance where it came down to a win-or-lose, all-or-nothing proposition involving a kick," said Sabol of the kick that allowed Bill Parcells' Giants to escape with a 20-19 victory over Norwood and the no-huddling Bills. "I just think it's so unfair that fans have persecuted Norwood for this kick. It was the most pressure-packed kick in football, and he just sliced it a bit."
Norwood was Buffalo's all-time leading scorer until Steve Christie came along and broke his records in the late 1990s. "The Miss" did not break him, as he played one more year and scored 110 points plus made a late game-winning field goal in the AFC Championship Game against Denver to vault the Bills into Super Bowl XXVI. But he retired after the Bills were blown out by Washington, moved to Virginia where he became a financial advisor, and rarely associates with the Bills' franchise.
"A lot of people thought my life was ruined, but nothing could be further from the truth," he said. "I'm very happy and contented. I have a loving wife, three children who keep me very busy, and a lot of fond football memories. Sure I wish I had made that kick, but my life didn't go into a tailspin."
His wife is from the Buffalo suburb of West Seneca so he occasionally comes back to Western New York for family purposes, but outside of his appearance at a charity flag football game organized by former Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly in July 2002, no one in football has had much contact with Norwood.
"I wasn't so much hurting because of the kick itself," Norwood said. "The kick was about the people. It wasn't about anything else. It wasn't about monetary gain or some great stature for myself or anything else. When you talk about the Buffalo Bills, it really is about the community and the people who support it. They had a lot of emotions invested in us. It was an emotional time. I just felt bad for the people. It wasn't a short one by any means. My stance has always been that I was there to kick the ball. In that instance, I didn't do my job and I didn't get my job done. I take responsibility for that."
Two kickers who made field goals to win Super Bowls, New England's Adam Vinatieri in 2002 and Jim O'Brien of the Baltimore Colts in 1972, feel terribly for Norwood.
"Everyone knows the Scott Norwood situation," Vinatieri said. Added O'Brien: "I felt really badly for him. And I know it's just a kick and it's just a game, but I'm sure glad I made mine."
Freaking Jeff Hostetler :angry:
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