COWBOYS WIN ON SEVEN FIELD GOALS : COWBOYS 21, PACKERS 6.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The Dallas Cowboys Chris Boniol's foot was the only weapon they needed Monday night. Boniol, who was in bed with the flu for two days last week, tied an NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga record with seven field goals as the Cowboys beat the Packers 21-6, their seventh straight win over Green Bay in four seasons - all at Texas Stadium. Boniol's first five field goals came on Dallas' first five possessions. The last two came in the second half, the final one a 28-yarder with 20 seconds left in the game to tie the mark shared by Jim Bakken James LeRoy Bakken (born November 2, 1940, Madison, Wisconsin) is a former American football punter and placekicker for the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a four-time Pro Bowl selection, and was named to both the NFL 1960s All-Decade Team and the NFL 1970s All-Decade Team by the and Rich Karlis Richard John Karlis (born May 23, 1959, in Salem, Ohio) is a former American Football placekicker who played nine seasons for the Denver Broncos, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Detroit Lions in the National Football League from 1982 to 1990. . Right before the record-tying kick, Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman took a knee and the Cowboys called timeout to get Boniol onto the field. After the kick, the teams milled around, with the Packers apparently angry about Dallas adding a needless score. Reggie White appeared the most upset as he jawed jawed adj. Having a jaw or jaws, especially of a specified kind. Often used in combination: slack-jawed; the jawed fishes. Adj. 1. with Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin. ``I feel good, it's something I'm proud of,'' Boniol said. ``I'm not excited about what happened after the fact, but how many times do you get to kick seven field goals?'' The Cowboys (7-4) pulled into a second-place tie with Philadelphia in the NFC NFC abbr. National Football Conference East. Dallas trails Washington by one game and has two games left against the Redskins Redskins can refer to:
Green Bay (8-3) lost for the second straight week but remains in good shape in the NFC Central, two games ahead of Minnesota. But the loss meant more to Green Bay than just a game in the standings. Since losing 38-27 here in the NFC title game last January, the Packers had been pointing to this game as a chance to demonstrate that they had passed the three-time Super Bowl winners at the top of the conference. Instead, they lost by double digits for the seventh time in seven games in Texas. The Packers came in severely handicapped on offense - without Robert Brooks and Antonio Freeman, their top wide receivers, and tight end Mark Chmura. All were injured and sorely missed against the NFL's leading defense. In the first half, the Packers never got beyond the Dallas 45. In the second half, they had one good drive, and that ended when Chris Jacke missed a 32-yard field goal attempt. That was the kind of frustration the Packers encountered all night - in the fourth quarter, a sack by White was aborted by a defensive holding call against George Koonce that led to Boniol's sixth field goal, a 39-yarder with 8:36 left that gave him a Cowboys single-game record. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color) The Cowboys' Broderick Thomas sacks the Packers' Brett Favre in the second quarter. Associated Press |
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