Scott Norwood + Realtor + Financial Planner, For many, Scott Norwood is “that guy.”
For his three children, Scott Norwood is “dad,” and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Norwood will forever be “that guy” who is responsible for the most famous missed field goal in NFL history, the one that would have given the Buffalo Bills a 22-20 win in Super Bowl XXV over the New York Giants 19 years ago.
For his three children, Scott Norwood is “dad,” and he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Norwood will forever be “that guy” who is responsible for the most famous missed field goal in NFL history, the one that would have given the Buffalo Bills a 22-20 win in Super Bowl XXV over the New York Giants 19 years ago.
However, despite the understandable anger and disappointment from that night in Tampa, Norwood is at peace with himself, proud of his NFL career, and even more proud of what he has accomplished since.
The former Bills’ kicker has made good use of the business degree he earned from James Madison University, working as a financial planner, selling insurance, and being a real estate agent since his NFL career ended after the team waived him following the 1991 season.
“It’s been a long while since I’ve retired, but since then I’ve been doing a lot of things,” Norwood said in between signing autographs and taking pictures at the 37th annual Sports Night in Hornell Saturday night. “The primary thing is that I started to raise a family.”
He is no longer a professional football player, instead earning a living in the more traditional, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. sense, but Norwood’s most important job is as a father to his three teenagers.
Norwood, who will turn 50 on July 17, starred in high school on the soccer field as a sweeper, but soon grabbed the attention of the football coach and his football career was born.
“My roots are in soccer, which kind of led me to kicking,” Norwood said. “I’ve done some coaching in soccer, that’s a little more my area of expertise, but I do help kickers when I’m approached, probably a couple each year.”
Norwood, who grew up in Alexandria, Va., shares the James Madison University record for field goals in a season (15), and is a member of the school’s Hall of Fame.
Still, his great work for his Division I-AA school was not enough to get drafted. Norwood hooked on with the Atlanta Falcons during training camp, but did not make the team.
He spent two seasons with the Birmingham Stallions of the United States Football League, but was cut again after suffering a knee injury.
No sweat, because the Buffalo Bills came calling in 1985. Norwood won the job with the Bills, and began a seven-year NFL career that saw him make a Pro Bowl and earned 1st-team All-Pro honors in 1988.
“That was a tremendous step for me,” Norwood said. “Everything else was just gravy, so to speak.
“Just to make the team, and my first season, that was a great time.”
Norwood finished his career by making 72.3 percent of his field goals and nearly 98 percent of his extra points, plus was a part of the emergence of the Bills from basement dwellers to the AFC’s dominant force.
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