The Buffalo Payments and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs placed on one other playoff traditional to wrap up Divisional Spherical weekend. For the Payments and their followers, the result not solely didn’t change, it evoked probably the most painful reminiscences from over 30 years in the past.
Down 27-24 with below two minutes to go, the Payments stalled out at Kansas Metropolis’s 26 with an opportunity to take the lead. Veteran kicker Tyler Bass, who missed a subject objective and had one other one blocked final week in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers, was introduced on with the prospect to tie it up.
On a cold, windy night time in upstate New York, the kick was pushed vast proper, as CBS play-by-play voice Jim Nantz stated, “the 2 most dreaded phrases in Buffalo.”
The Chiefs picked up a primary down two performs later, operating out the clock, and clinching a sixth straight AFC Championship look.
Maybe Mahomes would’ve led a game-winning drive to make a made Bass subject objective moot, however that’s as much as hypothesis and assumption. It’s nonetheless Extensive Proper 2.0 for Buffalo. In 1991, Scott Norwood’s game-winning 47-yard try in Tremendous Bowl XXV in opposition to the New York Giants is arguably probably the most well-known vast proper kick in NFL historical past.
1990: Payments Week- The second which has been etched in historical past. Scott Norwood, attempting to hit his longest ever FG on grass from 47 yards, noticed the ball sail vast proper & #NYGiants had been in a position to have fun an incredible 20-19 win. Their 2nd Tremendous Bowl championship #BEGIANT pic.twitter.com/SEmMUdmiEf
— BigBlueVCR (@BigBlueVCR) October 15, 2023
As soon as 6-6 and out of the playoff image coming into its bye week, Buffalo needed to win 5 straight video games, together with on the highway in opposition to the Chiefs, to safe a playoff spot and win the AFC East. Lastly dealing with Mahomes and firm at dwelling for the primary time within the playoffs, this appeared just like the Payments’ greatest probability to precise revenge for the defeats within the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
As a substitute, the highway to the Tremendous Bowl not solely ends by the hands of the Chiefs for the third time in 4 seasons, it ends in entrance of their dwelling followers, and in a painfully acquainted means.
