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Favre ties TD record

Brett Favre was thinking about only one thing. It wasn't a record.

Well, actually, it was: Green Bay's perfect mark this season. The Packers moved to 3-0 Sunday with a 31-24 comeback victory over the San Diego Chargers in which their star quarterback threw touchdown pass No. 420 to tie Dan Marino's NFL record.

"I could care less about the record," Favre said after his third TD throw, a short pass Greg Jennings took 57 yards for the winning points. "Everyone's over there celebrating, cheering and congratulating me and I said 'Look, this will mean nothing if we don't win this game."'

So they won it. Favre was 28-of-35 for 369 yards on the way to his 38th career fourth-quarter comeback. A series earlier, the Packers had a first down on the Chargers' 1 and couldn't score.

But they got another chance and made good on it.

"I think this team is capable of some great things, we've seen that up to this point, but it's hard to maintain this level of play and the right attitude," he said. "That's what we have to be focused on."

While the Packers celebrated Favre's achievement and their own fast start, the Chargers fell to 1-2. They went 14-2 a year ago.

At Seattle, Nate Burleson caught a 22-yard touchdown pass from Matt Hasselbeck with 1 minute remaining. Shaun Alexander, who finished with 100 yards on 21 carries, ran 14 yards on fourth-and-1 to set up the go-ahead score.

At Oakland, first-year coach Lane Kiffin successfully used a late timeout against Cleveland kicker Phil Dawson, the same strategy Denver used to help beat the Raiders (1-2) the previous week. On the second attempt, Tommy Kelly blocked Dawson's low last-second field goal attempt.

At Baltimore, Matt Stover kicked a 46-yard field goal as time expired.The Ravens (2-1) led 20-3 at halftime and 23-6 entering the fourth quarter, but struggled late. Backup QB Kurt Warner rallied the Cardinals (1-2) to a tie at 23 with 1:50 left.

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