Super Bowl XLVIII is less than two weeks away. Football fans in the New York metropolitan area anxiously await the first cold climate championship NFL game played out of doors since Jan. 2, 1966. On that date, one year prior to what is now referred to as Super Bowl I, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Cleveland Browns at muddy Lambeau Field in the NFL title game. Five inches of wet snow blanketed the small city on the morning of the game, and most fans were still stuck in traffic at kickoff time!
New York Giants fans will confirm that small things matter in these games. They were the beneficiaries of the closest margin of victory in a Super Bowl, when in 1991 they defeated the Buffalo Bills 20-19. The game rested on the right toe of Bills kicker Scott Norwood with eight seconds remaining, but his field goal attempt sailed one foot outside the right goalpost. That miss, commonly known as “Wide Right,” and a host of well-executed plays in tight circumstances have amounted to four Super Bowl victories for the Giants.
