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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Sport
Melissa Jacobs

The curse of wide right came back to haunt the Bills against the Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs celebrate after Tyler Bass’s missed field goal
The Kansas City Chiefs celebrate after Tyler Bass’s missed field goal. Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images

For some Bills fans of a certain age, the ghost of Scott Norwood’s wide right 47-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV and the three further Super Bowl losses that followed in successive years had begun to dwindle. After all, it’s a new era in Buffalo. They have a frequent shopper card to the NFL playoffs. They have a quarterback who can do exceptional things like effortlessly throw a football 65 yards. They came into form right time this season and got to host the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs instead of the usual other way around. With questions about the Chiefs’ lack of offense and how they would fare in raucous Buffalo, the time for the Bills to get past their postseason nemesis was now. Except the thing about curses is they can reappear at any time.

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