Just wow. After a 40+ yard pass with 2 seconds left in the game, Boise State had set up an easy field goal for their kicker Kyle Brotzman . The score was 31-31 and #4 Boise was playing #19 Nevada. A win would catapult Boise into BCS championship contention and most likely would had pushed them to #3 in the country. On the nine yard line, a straight on kick was ready for Brotzman. No angle, no real distance, a field goal that goes through 99% of the time.
Obviously the long paragraph should tell you something: Brotzman missed it wide right. But hey, no big deal right? Now there was overtime for Boise's kicker to make amends and redeem himself. Indeed Boise got the ball back and indeed Botzman was called upon again to kick an easy field goal from 28 out, a field goal that goes through 98% of the time. He missed it wide left.
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Lost in all of this was Nevada's kicker Anthony Martinez who, unlike Brotzman, kicked the game winning field goal, from a greater distance than Brotzman's misses (34 yards), and drilled it right through the uprights. Boise State has no chance to win the BCS and is likely out of Bowl contention.
The only thing that Brotzman drilled was Boise. And now, despite his accomplishments as a kicker, his career is and always will be defined by two epic failures.
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