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The tears did not flow from Scott Norwood that night in the Bills' locker room underneath Tampa Stadium. They came the next day back in wintry downtown Buffalo when Norwood and the rest of the Bills were greeted by nearly 30,000 fans at a welcome home reception following the team's heartbreaking 20-19 loss in Super Bowl XXV.
Norwood, whose 47-yard field goal with four seconds remaining sailed wide of the right upright, preventing the Bills from defeating the New York Giants, was given the loudest ovation and he could not contain his emotions, so overwhelmed was he by the response.
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"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."
To this day Norwood's kick - still the only win-or-else field-goal attempt in a Super Bowl - is one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history as it gets replayed ad nauseum during the week of the Super Bowl. He has moved on with his life, but there are many Bills fans who can't forget the failed attempt, especially given the fact that Buffalo lost the next three Super Bowls and never came that close to winning again.
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