It was 25 years ago this very day, cold and blowing in New England, a Nor’easter having dumped a foot of snow on the field at Foxborough Stadium. The Englishman was the kicker for the New England Patriots, and broke a sloppy, scoreless duel with a snowplow-aided field goal late in the fourth quarter. Final Score—Patriots 3, Dolphins 0. Smith was assisted that afternoon by an ex-con named Mark Henderson, out on work release, who veered his snowplow over to the hash-mark, clearing the snow (although not the ice, as Smith told me recently) so he could make the ...