What must if feel like for a seasoned place kicker to miss one with seconds to go when it could have tied the score and sent the game into overtime if it had been good.
My wife asked me that late this evening after Lawrence Tynes kicked a 31-yard field goal for the New York Giants in overtime to defeat the San Francisco 49ers to get to the the Super Bowl. She was referring to what had happened earlier at the end of the Baltimore-New England game when a similar kick was missed.
The Baltimore kicker, Billy Cundiff, was understandably inconsolable. No overtime chance for his team to win. Tynes, on the other hand, was giddy with excitement. His kick won the game. Both players' reactions seemed perfectly normal.
And so the Giants and the Patriots will meet once again in a Super Bowl.
We'll get a kick out of that.
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