Redemption is best served piping hot, and Rafael Gaglianone served a steaming plate of it to a crowd of 89,886 fans at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska Saturday evening from the right hashmark of the 36-yard line.
With nine seconds to go, the wind at his back and the Wisconsin football team trailing 21-20, Gaglianone — and possibly the football gods — pushed his 46-yard attempt just inside the right upright, the very post his 39-yard kick had hit one minute and 17 seconds prior.
For every inch the ball moved through the fall air, the Badgers’ season hung in the balance.