|
 |
 |
|
You are in: You are in: Other Sports: US Sport |
 |
|
Monday, 3 December, 2001, 02:17 GMT
Woodson's winning record
Rod Woodson is now in the NFL history books
Click here for Sunday's NFL results
Rod Woodson was the toast of the Baltimore Ravens after setting an NFL record when he returned an interception for a touchdown for the 10th time. He carried the ball 47 yards for a touchdown with 1:34 left to seal a 39-27 win over the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts had led by a point with 13:29 remaining, but for the fifth time in six games the Super Bowl champions came back from being down or tied going into the final quarter. Elvis Grbac threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Qadry Ismail before Woodson intercepted Peyton Manning's pass for the win and a place in the history books. At the other end of the interception scale Kenny Mixon returned his first to help the Miami Dolphins stay on top of the AFC East. Mixon's touchdown, like Woodson's, helped his team come from behind in the final quarter. But the Denver Broncos only had themselves to blame.
The Pittsburgh Steelers stayed on top of the AFC Central after a hard-fought win over the Minnesota Vikings. The hosts had to hold off a late Viking rally which saw the visitors come back from 21-3 down before losing 21-16. Todd Bauman, back-up to the injured Daunte Culpepper, found Michael Bennett with an 80-yard touchdown pass before linking with Randy Moss with three minutes remaining. Leon Johnson scored on a one-yard run with 5:34 left on the clock to seal a 13-10 win for the NFC Central leaders, the Chicago Bears. The win consigned the Detroit Lions, who finished the match without starting quarter-back Charlie Batch who left with a shoulder injury in the third, to their 11th defeat of the season. Insult was added to injury when Jason Hanson missed a 40-yard field goal with 21 seconds remaining - it was Hanson's third miss of the day. Quarter-back Batch may now be out for the rest of the season. The Tennessee Titans kept their slim hopes of making the play-offs alive with a 31-15 win at the Cleveland Browns. Steve McNair threw three touchdown passes - two to Derrick Mason - before leaving with an elbow injury. The New Orleans Saints left it late before claiming a 27-23 win over the Carolina Panthers.
The Panthers enjoyed a 10-point run to lead 23-20 before enduring Horn's late intervention that condemned them to their 11th consecutive defeat. Martin Gramatica gave the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a 16-13 over-time win at the Cincinnati Bengals with a 21-yard field goal. The three points were enough to give the Buccaneers their first back-to-back wins of the season, despite a poor finish that saw the Bengals level the game having been 10 points adrift with 4:29 remaining. The match between the Oakland Athletics and the Arizona Cardinals had a very similar script to the one in Tampa. Bill Gramatica - Martin's brother - kicked his fourth field goal of the match with 7:31 left in over-time to give the Cardinals victory over the AFC West's top team. The loss broke Oakland's 10-match winning streak, but the hosts had only taken the match into the extra period courtesy of Jerry Rice's two-yard scoring touchdown with 12 seconds remaining in the fourth. Marshall Faulk scored his 100th touchdown - the 13th player to reach the landmark in NFL history - as the St Louis Rams ran riot against the Atlanta Falcons. Faulk scored a hat-trick and Kurt Warner threw four touchdown passes. Warner was 17-of-23 for 342 yards, his seventh 300-yard game this season.
The 49ers intercepted Alex Van Pelt four times and Garrison Hearst rushed for 124 yards and a touchdown as they recorded a fifth straight shutout against the Bills. Jeff Garcia threw a pair of touchdown passes, completing 19-of-27 for 189 yards. The Dallas Cowboys broke a four match losing streak with their ninth consecutive win over the Washington Redskins. Emmitt Smith scored his first touchdown of the season and Quincy Carter got his first touchdown pass of the season in the 20-14 win. Smith's five-yard touchdown run in the first quarter started the scoring, and rookie Carter's 64-yard pass to Raghib Ismail was the big play in the fourth quarter. Rian Lindell turned from villain to hero as the Seattle Seahawks climbed above the San Diego Chargers in the AFC West. Lindell had missed two field goals in the final five minutes of regulation time before he landed a 24-yard shot in over-time for a 13-10 win. The New England Patriots won a game of two halves against the New York Jets, coming back from 13 points down to win 17-16. Jets quarter-back Vinny Testaverde was almost flawless in the first half, but in the closing stages in his opposite number Tom Brady who orchestrated the game.
|
|
Other top US Sport stories:
Links to more US Sport stories are at the foot of the page.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Links to more US Sport stories
|
|
||
 |
^^ Back to top | |
| Front Page | Football | Cricket | Rugby Union | Rugby League | Tennis | Golf | Motorsport | Boxing | Athletics | Other Sports | Sports Talk | In Depth | Photo Galleries | Audio/Video | TV & Radio | BBC Pundits | Question of Sport | Funny Old Game ------------------------------------------------------------ BBC News >> | BBC Weather >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © MMII | News Sources | Privacy |
||
E-mail this story to a friend