European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes december 10,1991 c Page 28bills Fig in of tips raiders los Angeles apr not even in the super bowl was Scott Norwood so inaccurate. This time the Buffalo kicker got one More Chance. He made Good on it with a 42-Yard Field goal at 2 34 of overtime sunday giving the Bills a 30-27 comeback Victory Over the los Angeles raiders. Norwood missed three Field goals and a conversion in the final 171/2 minutes of regulation. Mis poor kicking was reminiscent of his 47-Yard failure on a potential game winning Field goal at the end of last january s super bowl. Norwood who had made nine straight Field goals entering the game had missed More nil on pages 22,23,25 a 36-yarder with 11 seconds remaining in the fourth Quarter. After Mark Kelso intercepted a Long pass by Jay Schroeder on the second play of overtime at the Buffalo 36, the Bills moved 40 Yards for the winning Points. A this was the toughest Day in my career a said Norwood in his seventh season with the Bills. A in spite of it All the game had a Happy ending. The Bottom line is we the big play of Buffalo s game winning drive was a 31-Yard pass from Jim Kelly to Andre Reed. After three runs by Thurman Thomas gained 9, Norwood finally made a kick. A of course 1 had doubt about that last kick a Bills coach Marv Levy said. A you have doubts if he had made 15 in a �?o1 Don t know what the problem was. I did no to even talk to Marcus Allen 32 of the raiders fends off Bills Tacker Dwight Drane by grabbing his face mask As Darrell Talley watches. The Bills 12-2who have already clinched the acc East need just one win in their final two games to secure Home Field advantage throughout the playoffs. The raiders 9-5 had a four game winning Streak snapped and fell one game behind first place Denver in the acc West but clinched a playoff berth despite the loss. Los Angeles is tied for second place with Kansas City which it plays in the final game. Kelly completed 33 of 52 passes for 347 Yards and two touchdowns with one interception. Thomas the a Fly a leading rusher was held to 57 Yards on 15 carries but caught seven passes for 76 Yards. Keith my Keller had 10 receptions for 57 Yards and Reed caught eight for 107 Yards. The Bills forced the overtime by scoring twice late in the fourth period a on a 1-Yard run by Kenneth Davis with 4 06 remaining and a 9-Yard pass from Kelly to James Lofton with one minute left. Norwood missed his 36-yarder after Nate Odomes intercepted a pass by Schroeder and returned it 48 Yards. Norwood was wide left on the conversion attempt following Davis to and also missed Field goal attempts from 49 and 32 Yards earlier. Kelly engineered drives of 67 Yards in 12 plays and 64 Yards in eight plays in the fourth Quarter to tie the game. The raiders seemed in command before Kelly got the Bills offence in gear. Schroeder completed 11 of 21 passes for 252 Yards and one touchdown and Marcus Allen rushed for 57 Yards on 16 carries and scored once. Jeff Jaegers 19-Yard Field goal in the first Quarter gave the raiders a 3-0 Lead. Los Angeles made it 10-0 on a 78-Yard pass from Schroeder to Tim Brown later in the period. On a third and eight play Brown caught a Short pass just past the los Angeles 30 and avoided several de inside sports Virginia wins Mcaa soccer title a Page 21 Bucks give new coach first Victory a Page 21 baseball a Winter meetings heat up a Page 26 royals sign Joyner for one year a Page 27 fenders to cover the remaining 70 Yards. Al Edwards returned the ensuing kick off 91 Yards for a touchdown to make it 10-7. But the raiders responded by moving 80 Yards in 13 plays Nick Bell scoring on a 12-Yard eliminate super bowl champs by Tom Canavan East Rutherford . A kiss the new York giants goodbye. The defending super bowl champions were eliminated from playoff Contention sunday with two weeks left in the regular season when they blew a fourth Quarter Lead for the fifth time this season and lost 19-14 to the red hot Philadelphia eagles. The loss coupled with Atlanta s 31-14 Victory Over the los Angeles rams knocked new York out of the playoffs for the first time since 1988 a and left a crowd at giants stadium chanting a Ray must new York is now 7-7 under Rookie coach Ray i Findley and appears to be a team in disarray. The eagles 9-5 Aren t. The team with the a Fly a Best defense now has won six games in a Row and is in the thick of the playoff race thanks to its longest winning Streak since 1981. The eagles Are winning with defense and seemingly unexpected heroes on offence. This time it was left Kemp coming off the Bench to replace injured Jim Mcmahon and Roger Ruck kicking four Field goals including a season Long 51-yarder Early in the fourth Quarter that put Philadelphia ahead to stay. Kemp was the spark plug. He came on in the second Quarter when Mcmahon was injured and threw an 8-Yard touchdown pass to Calvin Williams just before halftime to help the eagles rally from an 11-Point first half deficit and beat the giants for the seventh time in their last eight meetings. A personally 1 am not taking any great satisfaction in knocking off the giants from a Pedestal a Kemp said. Kemp probably will be the eagles quarterback next week. Mcmahon was to be hospitalized sunday night with bruised ribs and possible cartilage damage and his status for next week is very questionable. Eagles spokesman Ron Howard said after the game. A this game was the epitome of our entire season a Handley said. A we did no to take advantage of the opportunities we were Given. We turned the Ball Over took penalties at the wrong time. We did no to Stop them in the fourth Quarter. We gave up the big the giants pulled out All the stops against Philadelphia. They ran two Flea flickers and even had Lawrence Taylor and Erik Howard return from injuries to Aid the defense. Matt Bahr whose clutch kicking was a big reason new York won the title last season missed a 44-Yard attempt Early in the third Quarter with new York ahead 14-10. He then blew a 32-Yard Field goal with 7 20 to play and the giants behind 16-14. The eagles then took Over and Ruzek added a 36-Yard Field goal with 1 53 to play. New York got the Ball Back at its 20. Phil Simms missed his first pass had the second blocked was sacked on third Down by Seth Joyner and had his fourth Down play fall Short sending the giants Home for the sports in Europe a starts wednesday m sports
