Kansas City 28, San Francisco 20

The 4-6 Kansas City Chiefs went to the left coast to play the 7-3 San Francisco 49ers. Pre Game interviews with the two coaches showed that these two coaches knew each other well and were playing head games early with Tom Davis asserting his defense could not stop anyone and Eddie Mikhli claiming his team was fortunate and not nearly as good as their record indicated.

The 49ers took the opening kick and proceeded down the field utilizing a lot of run calls while the Chief defense seemed more worried about Terrell Owens. The drive stalled however, and Jeff Cortez kicked a 40 yard field goal. Dante Hall immediately responded with an 85 kickoff return for his third ko return for a touchdown this season. The two teams traded punts for the remainder of the quarter.

On the second play of the second quarter, Jeff Garcia flipped a little pass over the middle to Garrison Hearst (3-32, 1 td; 12-89 rushing) who took it 12 yards for a td. The two teams then fell into the patter of just crossing the mid field stripe before punting. With 3:30 remaining in the half, Eddie Kennison returned a punt to the KC 41. From there Trent Green moved the Chiefs into the red zone but a third and 4 pass to Tony Gonzalez fell incomplete. It looked like the Chiefs would have to settle for a field goal but a late flag gave the Chiefs new life on the 49er 8. On the next play, Green went play action and hit Kennison (4-57, 1 td) for the touchdown. The Niners came right back and after three plays, Garcia found Owens (8-168, 1 td) streaking down the sidelines for a 43 yard td pass. The half ended with the Niners up 17-14

The Chiefs took the second half kick and went 70 yards in 10 plays ending with a 6 yard td pass to Gonzalez. The two teams then jockeyed for position the remainder of the quarter, moving the ball for a few first downs before punting.

The fourth quarter opened with the 49ers on the Chiefs 15. They couldn't push it in however and settled for another Cortez field goal. The Niner defense held the Chiefs and forced a punt. But Garcia (25-36, 289, 2 tds, 1 int 0 sacks) then committed the only SF turnover of the game, throwing a pass to Eric Johnson only to have Jerome Woods step in from of Johnson and return the pickk to the 2 yard line. Two runs by Priest Holmes (18-42) only netted 1 yard and then, taking advantage of the Niner preoccupation of Holmes, Green again went play action and flipped the ball to Gonzalez (7-66, 2 tds) for a 28-20 lead. The Niners stalled on their next drive but with 4:44 remaining were fairly confident they would get the ball back, They didnt. Green (28-42, 269 yards, 3 tds 0 sacks, 0 ints) used up the remaining clock moving the ball down to the SF 8 before taking a knee to end the game. --submitted by Tom Davis--