As the Tennessee Titans drove on the St. Louis Rams at the end of Super Bowl XXXIV, Titans safety Blaine Bishop had just had his facemask removed. With his jersey cut off, his pads removed, and the shell of his helmet still affixed to his head, he lay inside an MRI machine in an Atlanta hospital, having been carted off the field and rushed away in an ambulance, listening to the radio broadcast of the Super Bowl. "I couldn't move in the MRI machine and I was thinking, 'Damn, we might win this game after all.' "
Bishop, who had been injured at the beginning of the fourth quarter, arrived at the hospital to find the MRI technicians already listening to the game. "No, they didn't put it on for me! I remember thinking, 'Well, you guys are really interested in what's happening to me, you're focused on the game.' "
As Kevin Dyson lunged for the goal line, Bishop tensed as he listened to the radio. From playing in front of over 70,000 fans to complete isolation in an instant. "Just barely missed it," he says of Dyson. "Just barely."
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