Billy Cundiff and Kyle Williams stumbling In Focus

It was not long after it was hooked wide left of the penalty, costing his team a shot at the Super Bowl, the Billy Cundiff was thinking of something bigger than football.

Baltimore Ravens kicker had lost only the routine seems to attempt 32 yards that may have been sent this game in the AFC Championship against the New England Patriots in overtime.

In the locker room later told reporters, who has two children at home.

"There are some lessons we need to teach," he said. "First and most important is that we are and face the music and move on."

Cundiff was not alone in the block at a crucial time on Sunday. Fumbled about 3000 miles west, San Francisco 49ers returner Kyle Williams punt in overtime to hand the victory of New York Giants in the championship game of the NFC.

With these errors, and Williams added Cundiff their names to a short list of the biggest supporters of football follies. And now they face the difficult task of leaving the disappointment, and be sure to remember your job more than a disappointment for a moment.

"You feel bad for these guys," said Herman Edwards, a former player and coach in the NFL who now works as an analyst for ESPN. "I have to live with him."

You can stop to keep the Grand Theatre for the player.

Regardless of the number of years that began in the NFL, and will always be remembered for Scott Norwood "right scale", and missed field goal attempt that cost Buffalo a Super Bowl victory in the fifth century.

Although, Jacqui Smith, is among the best tight ends in his time, the fans never forget that he dropped a pass misleading, but very open, which could have fallen also lost the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XIII .

"How not to become obsessed with evil?" Asked Larry Orr, a psychologist in the sport of the University of Michigan. "It's easier said than done."

On the way back from disappointment and starts a reaction team.

The Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh quick to defend Cundiff, whom he described as "a great kicker," and predicted that it will be fine. And heard Williams, who fumbled another punt colleagues organizing and promoting similar.

"Obviously it's going to be thinking in those two punt returns for a long time, but we lost," said quarterback Alex Smith. "Offensively, we were good enough ... and we did not."

But this is the NFL, a world where it can be brutal at the end of the race in a heartbeat. Therefore, the disappointment and regret soon gives the primary means of assessing bleak.

Kicker lost respect for him, Doug Brien, when Edwards was the formation of the new aircraft in 2005 in New York, two in field goal attempts in the last two minutes of the final playoff game of his team lost in overtime to the end.

"We know we can not bring him back," said Edwards. "We have drafted a kicker next year."

There have been other cases where, after considering the history of the player and his talent, the coach decided to keep it on the list. Thus begins the rehabilitation process.

The player did not perform under pressure, simply does not deny what happened as an anomaly.