Well, then.

The feeling during Sunday’s Carolina Panthers 33-31 victory against the New York Giants was that whoever maintained the most composure down the stretch of a voodoo, helter-skelter game would win the darn thing.

Especially after New York, which entered Sunday’s contest 1-3, clawed back from an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit to go ahead by a point.

Enter placekicker Graham Gano, who took the field with six seconds to play. Sixty-three yards of green grass and blue sky stretched in front of him. The yellow goal posts look like match sticks from that far back.

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