As Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood prepared for the final and fateful 47-yard field goal attempt that would decide the winner of Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Bill Parcells stood on the sidelines and thought about how devastating a moment this might be.
“I said to myself, ‘You know, it’s going to be a shame if we lose this game, because we really did outplay them,’ ” the former Giants’ coach, 74, told Newsday from his Jupiter, Florida, home on Thursday — a day after the 25th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1991 game. “ ‘We played it our way, and it’s going to be a shame if we don’t win it.