PA Season Ticket Holder
01-23-2003, 09:16 PM
http://www.superbowl.com/news/story/6142955
"My fault, Scott"
I'd probably have more stories if we had won, but I can recall one very important moment following a tough time in Bills history. Believe it or not, I am very proud of the way our players responded following Scott Norwood's missed field goal to end Super Bowl XXV.
Naturally, Scott was sitting there awfully disconsolate on the bench in the locker room after the game. Just sitting there, and I'll bet individually, six or eight players came by and apologized to Scott! One said: "Hey Scott, if I would have hung on to that pass on the 15-yard line, it wouldn't have come down to your kick," and another said: "If I would have made that tackle on third-and-6, maybe you wouldn't have needed to make the kick." You get the idea -- they showed him it was a team loss, not a one-man loss.
There were no sour grapes, there was no blaming teammates, there was no "we were better than they were," it was just a bunch of guys interested in going back to work and getting back to the Super Bowl again, which we did. That attitude was persistent with all four Super Bowls.
"My fault, Scott"
I'd probably have more stories if we had won, but I can recall one very important moment following a tough time in Bills history. Believe it or not, I am very proud of the way our players responded following Scott Norwood's missed field goal to end Super Bowl XXV.
Naturally, Scott was sitting there awfully disconsolate on the bench in the locker room after the game. Just sitting there, and I'll bet individually, six or eight players came by and apologized to Scott! One said: "Hey Scott, if I would have hung on to that pass on the 15-yard line, it wouldn't have come down to your kick," and another said: "If I would have made that tackle on third-and-6, maybe you wouldn't have needed to make the kick." You get the idea -- they showed him it was a team loss, not a one-man loss.
There were no sour grapes, there was no blaming teammates, there was no "we were better than they were," it was just a bunch of guys interested in going back to work and getting back to the Super Bowl again, which we did. That attitude was persistent with all four Super Bowls.