Fantastic finishes
Ryan Longwell made a field goal with nine seconds left to give Minnesota a comeback win over Detroit.
Nine seconds? Bor-ing!
Four other games were decided even later on a wild Sunday, including an NFL first for Arizona: a blocked punt for a touchdown in overtime.
"I can't remember one that was this crazy," Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner said, "especially toward the end."
He could have been talking about the whole day. Houston beat Miami when Matt Schaub ran for a TD with 3 seconds left, and Atlanta and St. Louis both won on field goals as time expired. It was the first time since 1970 that four teams got the winning points with fewer than 10 seconds left in regulation.
Arizona's game also had a field goal with the clock reaching zeros: Nick Folk made a 52-yarder to tie it for Dallas at 24. Then Sean Morey blocked Mat McBriar's punt, Monty Beisel scooped up the ball and scored from 3 yards to give the Cardinals (4-2) a 30-24 victory over the Cowboys.
The game was wild from start to finish — Arizona's J.J. Arrington took the opening kick 93 yards for a touchdown.
Dallas (4-2) scored 10 points in the final 2 minutes of regulation to reach overtime.
"It was almost a miracle finish for us," Dallas coach Wade Phillips said.
Atlanta's Jason Elam atoned for a late fourth-quarter miss by booting a 48-yard field goal to give the Falcons a 22-20 win over Chicago.
In the last 8 minutes, there was a goal-line stand by the Falcons, an 85-yard kickoff return by the Falcons' Jerious Norwood, Elam's first missed field goal in 31 attempts, a drive by the Bears that culminated with Kyle Orton's touchdown pass to Rashied Davis with 11 seconds remaining and, finally, Elam's winning kick after rookie quarterback Matt Ryan hooked up with Michael Jenkins on a 26-yard completion.
"This is going to do great things for our confidence and chemistry," Elam said. "Hopefully we can do something pretty special down the stretch."
In Landover, Md., Marc Bulger led the winning drive to set up Josh Brown's 49-yard field goal that gave St. Louis (1-4) a stunning upset of the Redskins.
Clinton Portis scored to give the Redskins (4-2) a 17-16 lead with 3:47 to play in a sluggish game in which they turned the ball over three times.
Houston (1-4) beat the Dolphins when Schaub ran for a TD on fourth down from the 3 to give the Texans a 29-28 win. An earlier fourth-down conversion on an acrobatic 23-yard reception by Andre Johnson kept the drive alive.
Ronnie Brown's 6-yard run with less than 2 minutes remaining gave Miami (2-3) the lead.
In Minnesota, the Vikings' relatively comfortable win was aided by a dubious pass-interference call on Leigh Bodden of Detroit (0-5).
Trailing 10-9 with 2:22 to play, the Vikings (3-3) had a second-and-20 from their 32. Gus Frerotte threw deep down the sideline for Aundrae Allison, and the ball fell incomplete. But official Mike Weir whistled Bodden for interference despite what appeared to be minimal contact.
