Thursday, January 6, 2011

What if........

Continuing in the series of What if moments takes us to January 8, 2000. Bills and Titans in the AFC Wildcard playoff game.  The Homerun Throwback or Music City Miracle as it is called.  The Bills take a 22-16 late in the fourth quarter and seemingly have the game won. Kicker Steve Christie kicks a short kick and Lorenzo Neal fields the ball. He then hands off to Frank Wychek who then passes the ball across the field to Kevin Dyson who then races 75 yards for the winning touchdown.  The play is reviewed and eventually upheld.  The Titans win the game and subsequently go all the way to the Super Bowl.

The question remains that if the Bills win that game then the Titans don't go on to their miracle run to the Super Bowl.  Some thought the Bills could have gone to the Super Bowl that year. They had a defense that only allowed 229 points (14.3/game) that was second in the league.  A Rams-Bills Super Bowl would have been interesting.  Since then however, the Bills have not made it to the playoffs. 

In that Rams-Titans Super Bowl, if Dyson scores on the final play of the game and is not tackled by Mike Jones of the Rams, that game goes into overtime where either the Rams eventually win or the Titans cap off their Cinderella season with a Super Bowl victory and Kurt Warner never becomes a hero.

Again you wonder, What if..............

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