The story appears on

Page A8

October 2, 2012

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

Related News

HomeSportsAmerican Football

Falcons, Cardinals remain unbeaten

MATT Bryant kicked a 40-yard field goal with five seconds remaining on Sunday as Atlanta rallied to beat the Carolina Panthers, while Arizona edged Miami with a field goal in overtime to maintain their unbeaten runs in the National Football League.

Houston set a club record with its fourth straight win to start the season after a 38-14 win over Tennessee.

The Atlanta Falcons have four consecutive wins and are off to their best start since 2004, when they reached the NFC championship game. Despite taking a career-high seven sacks, Matt Ryan threw three touchdown passes for Atlanta. Bryant added three field goals.

At Glendale, Jay Feely kicked a 46-yard field goal 6:31 into overtime to keep Arizona unbeaten. The Cardinals forced overtime when Kevin Kolb threw a 15-yard touchdown pass on fourth down to Andre Roberts with 22 seconds to play in regulation.

The Broncos beat the Raiders 37-6 at Denver with Peyton Manning finishing with 338 yards and three TD passes.

Manning opened the game by leading the Broncos on an 80-yard touchdown drive and Denver never trailed.

At Philadelphia, Lawrence Tynes missed two field-goal attempts from 54 yards with 15 seconds left as the Eagles held on to beat the New York Giants 19-17.

Tynes missed wide left, but the Eagles had called a timeout to ice him. He was short on his second attempt.

The Vikings scored a 20-13 away win over the Lions at Detroit.

In other weekend results, it was: San Diego 37, Kansas City 20; St Louis 19, Seattle 13; New England 52, Buffalo 28; San Francisco 34, NY Jets 0; Cincinnati 27, Jacksonville 10; Green Bay 28, New Orleans 27; and Washington 24, Tampa Bay 22.



 

Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.

娌叕缃戝畨澶 31010602000204鍙

Email this to your friend