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of your hands or slip past you.”
With the loss to UCLA, Oregon’s
season comes down to a single game.
Eleven consecutive winning seasons
and an eighth-straight bowl appear
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A late-game fumble recovery ruled in favor of Green
Bay results in a tie-breaking goal and a 34-31 win
BY ARNIE STAPLETON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Shootouts
usually come down to who has the
ball at the end. This one came down
to who had it at the bottom.
Minnesota's Derek Ross and
Green Bay's Ben Steele, who had
been cut by the Vikings in training
camp, each claimed ownership of
Robert Ferguson’s fumble at mid
field in the closing minutes.
The officials eventually ruled Green
Bay had possession, and the Packers
drove for Ryan Longwell’s 33-yard
field goal as time expired for a 34-31
win Sunday, their fourth straight.
The Vikings, who had rallied to tie
with two touchdowns in a 93-sec
ond span, lost their third straight
game and fell into a tie with the
Packers atop the NFC Central at 5-4.
“There wasn't any doubt in my
mind I had the ball,” said Steele,
whose legs were cramping and arms
aching as he scuffled with his fellow
backup Ross for the prized posses
sion. “I wasn't going to give it up un
til the ref said, ‘Eighty-two, you've
got it.’ There was a lot of scratching
and clawing. It seemed like an eter
nity, but there was no way I was go
ing to let go of that sucker.”
Ross said he was robbed by refer
ee Ron Winter, plain and simple.
“Clearly, I had the ball. Yeah, we
had the ball,” Ross said. “I don't
think the referee did a good job of
getting everybody off the pile to see
clearly I had the ball. ”
Ross said a 300-pound lineman —
who was actually the 250-pound
Steele — pried one of his arms back
and he was helpless to do anything
about it: “I'm on the bottom of the
pile for two minutes, eventually he's
going to win that one.”
The Vikings, who were celebrat
ing their big break all over the field,
were stunned by the referee’s ruling.
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“We thought we had the ball,”
Minnesota coach Mike Tice said.
“We thought we had the ball from
the get-go.”
The scrum was in front of the
Packers’ sideline, but Green Bay
coach Mike Sherman didn’t exactly
express confidence in the call.
“I'll have to look at the tape to see
who got it. Ben Steele was credited
with it,” Sherman said. "I'm just
proud of the effort we showed today,
even at the end when we did fight to
get the ball.”
Ferguson broke into the open at
midfield and thought he had a clear
shot at the end zone when Antoine
Winfield swooped in and forced the
fumble.
Both Brett Favre and Daunte
Culpepper threw four touchdown
passes without an interception. It
was Favre's 18th game with four or
more TD tosses, second only to Dan
Marino's 21.
Favre hit receiver Javon Walker,
tailback Tony Fisher, tight end Bub
ba Franks and fullback William Hen
derson in the end zone as the Pack
ers built a seemingly safe 31-17 lead.
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“I knew it wasn't enough,” Favre
said. “All you have to do is look at
Monday night against Indianapolis,”
when the Vikings rallied to tie only
to lose on a last-second field goal.
Culpepper, working without star
receiver Randy Moss (strained ham
string) for the second straight game,
threw for 363 yards, connecting with
Nate Burleson 11 times for 141 yards
and a score.
“I love him. He's a gamer,”
Culpepper said.
Culpepper's 2-yard shovel pass to
Onterrio Smith with 2:53 left made it
31-24. The Vikings held and got the
ball back with 2:18 left. Culpepper
needed just three plays and less than
a minute to move Minnesota 58
yards to a 17-yard TD toss to Moe
Williams with 1:20 left.
That's when Ferguson fumbled
and Steele burned the team that cut
him in training camp, hoping to sneak
him onto the practice squad — only
to see the Packers snatch him away.
“It definitely was a little extra spe
cial to get that against my old team,”
Steele said.
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