![]() ![]() It was an unsightly coaching display by ex-Jets Belichick and Carroll, Malcolm Butler went from unknown to Super Bowl hero by jumping Ricardo Lockette’s route in the end zone and picking it off, which prompted Brady to start jumping around like a 5-year old. Then Bill Belichick doesn’t call a timeout to save time for Brady with the Seahawks at the Pats 1 in the final seconds, but Pete Carroll bails him out by giving the OK for Russell Wilson to throw the ball instead of giving it to the unstoppable Marshawn Lynch. Jermaine Kearse makes an acrobatic catch in the final two minutes and New England is experiencing David Tyree nightmares. This was a very close second: Tom Brady put together two perfect fourth-quarter drives to bring the Patriots from 10 points down to take the lead. The competition was intense for best Super Bowl game of all time: Super Bowl XXV gets my vote. As with any experience in life, sometimes bad times happen to good people. He has not let one kick define his life nor does he wonder how things would have been different if his kick made it through the uprights. He was gracious about explaining what was going through his mind and what went wrong. I brought a tape of the game to play in his VCR - remember those? - and we watched the kick together. ![]() Months later, I visited Norwood at his home in Virginia. One week earlier in the NFC title game, the Giants prevented the 49ers from going for the three-peat with a compelling 15-13 victory at Candlestick Park, forcing the presumptuous Niners to move their computers out of the offices set up at the NFC hotel in Tampa. One week earlier, the Bills scored 51 points against the Raiders in the AFC title game. Once the game started, the Giants had to figure out a way to stop Jim Kelly’s explosive K-Gun offense. The Gulf War had just begun, Whitney Houston sang a stirring rendition of the national anthem and patriotism swept through Tampa Stadium. It’s fitting that the colors of the Giants and Bills were red, white and blue. It’s the only game in Super Bowl history that was decided on the final play - not counting the final kneel down that followed - without a chance for overtime: Scott Norwood’s 47-yard field goal attempt with four seconds remaining sailed wide right in what turned out to be Bill Parcells’ last game as the Giants coach. Two words are synonymous with the Giants second Super Bowl victory. There were instances of streaking on university campuses from as early as the 1800s but it surged in popularity in the 1960s when a generation was rebelling against everything, including clothing.Wide Right. It was an Englishman and he did it for a bet, according to The Times. The first recorded public streaker was in 1799. Here we will attempt to strip back the truth about streaking: who does it and why, and relive some of the streaking's most memorable moments. The well-padded Wati - who faces a lifetime ban from the stadium and a hefty fine - joins a long list of high profile public exhibitionists with his antics, where he managed to evade a swag of security men as he streaked toward the try line.įrom AFL and rugby union, to cricket, tennis, horse racing and even snooker, there are not many sports that have not been targeted by attention-seeking exhibitionists who go to great lengths to peel off their kit and expose themselves to much more than just public ridicule. WHEN Wati Holmwood wobbled his naked way across ANZ Stadium in the dying minutes of the State of Origin decider, he was continuing a tradition that had its origins in the 18th century but only, er, took off in the 1970s. ![]()
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