To all the Patriots fans that will never forget Adam Vinatieri’s clutch kicking in the 2001-02 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders, you’re not alone.
Defensive back Charles Woodson, who was on that Raiders team that fell, 16-13, to the Patriots in blizzard-like conditions, hasn’t forgotten either.
When Vinatieri – now 46 and in his 23rd NFL season – missed a 23-yard field goal to end the first half of Saturday’s snowy and frigid game between the Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs, Woodson was left wondering why the football gods hadn’t bestowed a similar fate upon him and his teammates.