All guts and no glory

A kicker’s lot is proof that, sometimes, there is an ‘I’ in ‘team’. I miss. We lose.

“Look out, look out! It’s no good, it’s no good!”

Commentator Jim Nantz saw it early. The coach’s shoulders slumped. Team-mates’ mouths ripped open like torn pockets. Hands reached for heads. With 11 seconds left of last Sunday’s AFC championship game, Baltimore Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff hooked a straightforward 32-yard field goal attempt wide left and Super Bowl dreams vanished.