Biggest choke artists of all-time (#1 on page 8)
Were the Bills ever really favored to win any of their Super Bowls? I honestly don't remember, I was pretty young. I do remember everyone knowing that the Cowboys were going to murder them.
The wide right kick is probably on this list too.
I think they were favorites in 1990, which was really the game rocketed Parcells into a deserved reputation that also made him damn near insufferable. Every other SB they were very clear underdogs.
I never ever thought of that "wide right" as a choke. 47 yards, grass field, didn't miss by much. He didn't have that big of a leg anyway -- although he had one All-Pro year a couple years earlier, mostly for solid accuracy with a great an offense that was past the 50 a lot, for his career he was only 39 of 71 outside 40 yards (55%), and in 1990 he was only 11-for-18 outside of
just 30 yards , and his longest FG that year was 48 yards. I'd put that more on the rest of the team -- they put this guy in a hell of a spot and he performed within his range of expectation.
The biggest choke that game was the Bills #6 ranked run defense that just got pounded all night, and the #1 scoring offense getting only two TDs and two FG attempt opportunities over 60 minutes with exactly three plays of 20+ yards in 60 minutes.
The entire Bills organization, including the out-coached coaches and the outplayed players, a bunch of whom went to the Hall of Fame based on narrative, stats, and pity, asked one guy to get to the outer limit of his capabilities to bail them out.
They should be the ones apologizing to Norwood. He should be the one going to bed every night saying "why did I have to get my one chance in the Super Bowl with that bunch of chokers?"
As they proved three times later.
SaintJ ruins everything.