Wide right’: Explaining Buffalo Bills’ two heartbreaking missed kicks decades apart

As Jim Nantz said on the CBS broadcast, they are the two words no Buffalo Bills fan ever wants to hear.

Wide Right.

History has a tendency to repeat itself – unfortunately for the Bills.

With the Kansas City Chiefs leading 27-24 and less than two minutes remaining in the game, Buffalo kicker Tyler Bass lined up a 44-yard field goal attempt that would have tied the game. The kick, sailing through the blustery winds of western New York, never had a chance and missed to the right.

Wide right: Scott Norwood in Super Bowl 25

The Bills famously lost four consecutive Super Bowls in the 1990s, and the first defeat was the most painful. Facing the New York Giants and trailing 20-19, the Bills drove into field goal range for a game-winning, 47-yard kick.