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"I if I can drop two touchdowns a day and win, I'll take it every time," said Gonzalez, who also broke the team's single-season record with 84 receptions. "I'm just glad I had a chance at it again."
On a weird and eventful day at a strangely half-empty Arrowhead Stadium, nobody had more to be proud of — or feel embarrassed about — than Tony Gonzalez.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — He drops two certain touchdown passes. Then he catches a deflection that squirts through a churning swarm of people in the end zone.
most of all, Kansas City's star tight end had a 15-14 victory against Carolina that put an end to a five-game losing streak yesterday.
After Gonzalez's 6-yard touchdown catch of a deflected ball and Todd Peterson's 33-yard field goal put the Chiefs ahead by one point with 3:43 to go, they still had to sweat out one more kick by an old
Chiefs end five-game losing skid
The Associated Press
The Chiefs (6-8) had two interceptions and two fumbles on their first four possessions. Adding to their frustration, both interceptions were in the end zone and the first fumble was coughed up on the Carolina 15.
"We were all looking at each other wondering what in the heck was going on," said Gonzalez.
"As soon as I hit it, it went right at the post," said Nedney, who had connected on a team-record 18 in a row. "I was hoping for a little divine intervention. It didn't happen. I hit it real solid. It would have been good from 60."
But the Panthers (6-8), who had won two in a row, got only one touchdown off the four turnovers.
But Joe Nedney, whose game-winner in overtime for Oakland last season knocked the Chiefs out of the playoffs, was wide right on a 48-yarder with 1:35 left on the windy and bitterly cold day.
nemesis.
"It's about time he missed one," said Kansas City coach Gunther Cunningham.
The Panthers' weak offense, which entered the game with an NFL-leading 58 sacks allowed, saw Beuerlein sacked four times while managing only one TD off the four turnovers.
Beginning the game, Chiefs quarterback Elvis Grubac threw 18 straight passes without one hitting the ground. Sixteen were caught by
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The normally sure-handed Gonzalez dropped touchdown passes twice in the second half. Then when he snared the deflected ball to make it 14:12 with 12:31 to go, he chose not to make his trademark dunk over the goalpost.
For the first time since 1991, the Chiefs did not have a single punt.
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"I've never played in a game when we had four turnovers on our first four possessions," said center Tim Grunhard. "Did we catch a couple of breaks? Sure we did. But it's about time for the sun to shine on these dogs for a change."
The Panthers went 73 yards with the opening kickoff of the second half, with Chris Mangum sliding into the end zone for a 15-yard TD reception.
In the second quarter, Lester Towns recovered Tony Richardson's fumble on the Carolina 32, and eight plays later, Chris Hetherington scored on a 1-yard plunge for a 7-0 lead.
The Chiefs got a 35-yard field goal from Peterson in the second quarter, then a 24-yard in the third that made it 14-6.
Kansas City and two went to the Panthers.
Doug Evans and Eugene Robinson each made interceptions in the end zone after Grbac, who wound up 31-of-49 for 315 yards, passed the Chiefs to the Carolina 10. then to the 12.
In the fourth quarter and the Chiefs drove 85 yards in 12 plays to set up Gonzalez's deflected catch.
A pass for the 2-point conversion failed, leaving the Panthers with a 14-12 lead.
Weinke edges Heupel for Heisman
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - In winning the Heisman Trophy, Florida State's Chris Weinke captured the individual awards race, beating Oklahoma's
Josh Heupel.
But the real race,
both quarterbacks know,
won't finish up until Jan. 3 — when the Seminoles play
the Sooners in the Orange Bowl with the national championship on the line.
"In the end, there was a lot made of the Heisman being a head-to-head race between me and Josh," Weinke said yesterday. "But what I have been focusing on is facing each other in the
Weinke: Beat out
Oklahoma quarter-
back in close vote
Orange Bowl."
With the 28-year-old Weinke edging Heupel by 76 points in the Heisman balloting on Saturday night, the Orange Bowl has an added subplot — it will be just the third time the Heisman winner and runner-up will play against each other in a postseason game.
For Heupel, a victory would mean a perfect season and national championship for his top-ranked Sooners. Weinke, though, is confident his third-ranked Seminoles (11-1) will find a way to win.
"they are a good football team, and whether this will be motivation for them I don't know," Weinke said after becoming the oldest player to win the Heisman. "Nobody has found a way to beat them yet, but I'm sure we'll give it our best shot."
In the seventh-closest voting in Heisman history, Weinke overcame an age issue that had some voters leaving his name off the
Voting for the 2000 Heisman Trophy, with first-, second- and third-place votes and total points (voting on 3-2-1 basis):
| Player | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Total |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Chris Weinke, Florida St. | 369 | 216 | 89 | 1628 |
| Josh Heupel, Oklahoma | 286 | 290 | 114 | 1552 |
| Drew Brees, Purdue | 69 | 107 | 198 | 619 |
| LaDainian Tomlinson, TCU | 47 | 110 | 205 | 566 |
| Damien Anderson, Northwestern | 6 | 20 | 43 | 101 |
| Michael Vick, Virginia Tech | 7 | 14 | 34 | 83 |
| Santana Moss, Miami | 3 | 9 | 28 | 55 |
| Marques Tuasiosopo, Washington | 5 | 8 | 10 | 41 |
| Ken Simonton, Oregon St. | 1 | 5 | 12 | 25 |
| Rudi Johnson, Auburn | 3 | 1 | 9 | 20 |
ballot, claiming he had an unfair advantage over his younger rivals.
"Everything that's happened is because of the experience I've gained, not the age I attained." Weinke said in an acceptance speech in which he periodically swallowed hard.
Weinke, who led the nation with a school-record 4,167 yards passing and threw 33 touchdowns with 11 interceptions, totaled 1,628 points — 369 first-place
votes, 216 for second place and 89 for third. Heupel, who threw for 3,392 yards and 20 TDs, collected 1,552 points — 286 first-place votes, 290 for second and 114 for third.
For now, the 6-foot-5, 229-pounder from St. Paul, Minn., has the edge by winning college football's most coveted individual award, but a national title is the biggest prize of all.
"That's what matters most," Weinke said.
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