Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how great you are if your greatest blunder is great enough. It will still be the thing you’re most remembered for by those who don’t know an extensive amount about you. Think about it for a moment. What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I mention Janet Jackson?
That’s how Jerome Bettis feels about his fumble during the pivotal Divisional Round game against the Indianapolis Colts during the 2005 postseason. It was nearly his Bill Buckner moment (there’s another one, if not for a game-saving tackle by Ben Roethlisberger and an eventual field goal miss by at the time one of the most accurate kickers in NFL history.