17. When the Buffalo Bills lost four Super Bowls in a row from 1991 to 1994, which event below did not happen to someone on the team?
From Quiz Super Bowl Heroes & Goats
Answer:
Don Beebe fumbled while running for a TD because he started celebrating too early
Bills' coach Marv Levy was fined by the league when he missed a mandatory press conference before Super Bowl XXV, the team's first appearance in the game. After narrowly losing that game, the Bills had a particularly bad outing the following year, losing 37-24 to the Redskins in a contest far more one-sided than the score indicates.
Star running back Thurman Thomas couldn't find his helmet at the start of the game, missing the Bills' first two plays (the Redskins had the ball first; Thomas had much extra time in which he could have found his helmet).
Late in the first half, with the Bills trailing 17-0, they drove to the Redskins' 20. Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly was then sacked at the 28, and on the next play, he threw an incomplete pass to Andre Reed, who thought he was interfered with. Reed threw his helmet, resulting in a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and forcing the Bills out of field goal range.
Don Beebe WAS involved in a play in which a sure touchdown turned into a fumble, but was the hero, not the goat. In Super Bowl XXVII, with the Bills trailing the Cowboys 52-17, quarterback Frank Reich - starter Jim Kelly had been injured - fumbled and the Cowboys' Leon Lett picked the ball up and was running unimpeded toward the end zone, 65 yards away. About ten yards from scoring, Lett slowed down and raised the ball in the air. The Bills' Don Beebe caught up with him from behind, swatted the ball from his hand, and it rolled through the end zone for a touchback, giving Buffalo the ball back.