The extra point is usually the most boring play in football, so it was understandable that the broadcast team was still talking about the miraculous, or should I say, lucky play, when Carney's extra point sailed right. Saints miss the extra point, miss the playoffs, and pretty much everyone involved was canned. Which proves that although the most boring play in football is the extra point, the most exciting play is the MISSED extra point.
6. Gary Anderson
The 1998 Minnesota Vikings were on fire. In Randy Moss' rookie season with the team, the Vikings finished 15-1 with the most points scored in NFL history. The only question against them winning the Super Bowl was whether or not they could hang with the defending champion Denver Broncos.
The fact that the Falcons were coming in for the NFC Championship game was merely a formality. The game was hard fought and late in the fourth quarter, the Vikings held a 27-20 lead and Anderson stepped onto the field to give his team a two possession lead. Anderson had not missed a kick all season long, converting every point after attempt and field goal. It was almost certain the Vikings were on their way to their first Super Bowl appearance in over twenty years. If anyone in Atlanta was confident, they must have mistaken Gary Anderson for Gary Busey.
If I have to tell you what happened next, you clearly didn't read the headline to this article. The other Anderson kicker, Morten, for the Falcons, made up for his 1996 blunder by kicking his team to the Super Bowl. Ten years later, the Vikings still haven't made it back to a Super Bowl and Randy Moss has yet to win one.
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