It is a term so familiar to the Buffalo Bills, especially to one Bill in particular, Scott Norwood. Super Bowl XXV matched up the NFC champion New York Giants and the AFC champion Buffalo Bills for the game some call the ultimate game. A low scoring game with a lot of good defense, The Bills were favored to win and played their hearts out.
It came down to the last three seconds. The Giants were ahead 20 - 19. Scott Norwood, the place kicker for the Bills, was about to attempt 47 yard field goal that would win the game. The snap was good the kick was clean it had enough distance, but it went wide right. Game over, Giants win Super Bowl XXV.
It was a tough game. To say that Scott Norwood lost the game for the Bills would not be a correct assumption. Whenever you have to rely on any one person's last ditch effort to pull off a victory tells me that the rest of the team helped in the loss.
The Bills were favored to win and were very impressive. If the Bills won it, the MVP would have been hard to pick from many impressive performances.
The Bills had many many GREAT and talented players who helped take them to three more consecutive Super Bowls. But it was not enough.
Life is like that. Tough going and when we fall or fail so easy to look for blame even one person for our woes in life. Reality is life is more than one field goal. Life is moment by moment opportunities where we do our best and by faith believe God for our victory.
Even then when we by faith are trusting God for all things and faithful to all things, we can come up short, even fail...talent and great performance is not always enough. We can all get down the end zone and come up wide right.
No one, not a single person on the team or in the city of Buffalo blamed Scott Norwood for that loss. Blame is detrimental to getting up and going at it once again and again. Stuff happens and our winning is based on our response and our attitude to the loss and losses of life.
Why this blog? Last night on Monday night football, the Buffalo Bills played the Cleveland Browns. The Bills were down by two points with less than a minute in the game. The place kicker, Rian Lindell, came on the field had had to kick a 51 yard field goal to win the game. The sports casters were reminiscing about Scott Norwood's wide right when the ball was snapped, placed on the turf, Rian kicked and with enough distance, went wide right....Rian did not lose the game...the clock ran out and there was no more time to try and win....
Do not wait till the last minute to salvage your game...your life...time just might run out before you get that chance...
It came down to the last three seconds. The Giants were ahead 20 - 19. Scott Norwood, the place kicker for the Bills, was about to attempt 47 yard field goal that would win the game. The snap was good the kick was clean it had enough distance, but it went wide right. Game over, Giants win Super Bowl XXV.
It was a tough game. To say that Scott Norwood lost the game for the Bills would not be a correct assumption. Whenever you have to rely on any one person's last ditch effort to pull off a victory tells me that the rest of the team helped in the loss.
The Bills were favored to win and were very impressive. If the Bills won it, the MVP would have been hard to pick from many impressive performances.
The Bills had many many GREAT and talented players who helped take them to three more consecutive Super Bowls. But it was not enough.
Life is like that. Tough going and when we fall or fail so easy to look for blame even one person for our woes in life. Reality is life is more than one field goal. Life is moment by moment opportunities where we do our best and by faith believe God for our victory.
Even then when we by faith are trusting God for all things and faithful to all things, we can come up short, even fail...talent and great performance is not always enough. We can all get down the end zone and come up wide right.
No one, not a single person on the team or in the city of Buffalo blamed Scott Norwood for that loss. Blame is detrimental to getting up and going at it once again and again. Stuff happens and our winning is based on our response and our attitude to the loss and losses of life.
Why this blog? Last night on Monday night football, the Buffalo Bills played the Cleveland Browns. The Bills were down by two points with less than a minute in the game. The place kicker, Rian Lindell, came on the field had had to kick a 51 yard field goal to win the game. The sports casters were reminiscing about Scott Norwood's wide right when the ball was snapped, placed on the turf, Rian kicked and with enough distance, went wide right....Rian did not lose the game...the clock ran out and there was no more time to try and win....
Do not wait till the last minute to salvage your game...your life...time just might run out before you get that chance...
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