GREEN BAY, Wisconsin (Ticker) -- Dante's Inferno may have been extinguished, but the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs still managed to pull out a dramatic come-from-behind victory.
Morten Andersen kicked a game-tying 31-yard field goal with one second left in the fourth quarter and Trent Green hit Eddie Kennison with a 51-yard touchdown pass 6:18 into overtime to lift the Chiefs to a 40-34 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
Matched up against Packers star quarterback Brett Favre, Green passed for 400 yards and three touchdowns and rallied the Chiefs from a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit.
"At no time on our sideline did anyone think we'd lost this football game," Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil said.
After Green Bay's Ahman Green fumbled and Chiefs linebacker Mike Maslowski recovered the ball at the Kansas City 49 in overtime, Trent Green lofted the winning touchdown pass down the right sideline to Kennison, who raced past reserve cornerback Bhawoh Jue.
"It was a great call, as it turned out," said Vermeil, who credited offensive coordinator Al Saunders for the play. "Eddie had a couple of plays where we were sort of thinking, `Jeez, Eddie, you have to make that play.' Well, he got an opportunity, and he made the play."
"Trent threw the perfect ball," Kennison said. "It was the right play at the right time. I made a double move and got behind the cornerback."
Jue had replaced starting cornerback Mike McKenzie, who sat out the second half with back spasms.
"It's a tough one to swallow," said Favre, who was 25-of-36 for 272 yards and two touchdowns with an interception. "There were so many big plays, the emotions went up and down. We were in the driver's seat, but against a team like Kansas City you just never know. Everybody left it all on the field."
Green Bay (3-3) had won 56 straight games at Lambeau Field when building a double-digit lead.
The Chiefs (6-0) improved the best start in the 43-year history of the franchise and remained one of three unbeaten teams in the NFL, along with Carolina (5-0) and Minnesota (5-0).
The Packers had succeeded in keeping Chiefs star kick returner Dante Hall out of the end zone but had problems dealing with Trent Green and Kansas City's other offensive weapons.
Priest Holmes rushed for 81 yards and a touchdown and caught six passes for 59 yards, Johnnie Morton had six receptions for 109 yards and a score and tight end Tony Gonzalez caught four passes for 121 yards and a TD.
Hall had returned kicks for touchdowns in Kansas City's previous four games, including an electrifying 93-yard punt return with 8:20 left for the winning touchdown in a 24-23 victory over Denver last week. Two weeks ago, he returned a kickoff 97 yards for the winning touchdown in a 17-10 triumph over the Baltimore Ravens.
The Packers have not given up a kick or punt return for a touchdown this season, yet still avoided Hall as much as possible in the first half.
Green Bay's first two kickoffs went out of bounds and a third was a touchback before Hall almost broke one. But he was tripped up by punter Josh Bidwill after a 30-yard return to the Kansas City 45.
"I should have been in the end zone. He (Bidwill) had a four-leaf clover in his pocket," Hall said. "No, he made a great play. A great effort. He's a little faster than I thought."
Hall provided a spark with 14 minutes left in the fourth quarter, returning a punt 32 yards to the Green Bay 42. Six plays later, Holmes scored on a one-yard run to pull the Chiefs within 31-21 with 12:20 left in regulation.
In overtime, Hall fielded the kickoff and returned it 24 yards before he was pushed out of bounds by Robert Ferguson at the Kansas City 29. Holmes then carried nine straight times for 41 yards to the Green Bay 30.
But a 48-yard field goal attempt by Andersen was partially blocked by Rod Walker with 9:09 left. On Green Bay's next play, Ahman Green fumbled after being hit by safety Jerome Woods and Maslowski recovered.
"Jerome Woods laid a lick on him and the ball popped right up to me," Maslowski said.
Woods made another huge defensive play, returning an interception 79 yards for a touchdown to pull the Chiefs within 31-28 with 8:46 left in the fourth quarter.
The Packers drove to the Kansas City 32 with nine minutes left when a pass by Favre went off the right hand of Donald Driver and into the hands of Woods, who caught the ball at his knees and raced down the right side for a score.
A 67-yard pass from Trent Green to Gonzalez set up a game-tying 34-yard field goal by Andersen with 5:41 remaining.
The Packers reclaimed the lead on a 41-yard field goal by Ryan Longwell with 2:43 left after Ahman Green broke off runs of 16 and 26 yards. Ahman Green finished with 139 yards on 26 carries.
But after Hall made the mistake of fielding the ensuing kickoff at his own 10 and stepping out of bounds, Trent Green engineered a 12-play, 77-yard drive, completing five passes for 51 yards, to set up Andersen's tying 31-yard field goal.
"We just never quit," Hall said. "We're going to fight until the clock reads zero."
The Packers scored touchdowns on their first two possessions. Favre hit tight end Bubba Franks with a one-yard scoring play to cap an 11-play, 80-yard drive and Ahman Green scored on a four-yard run with 2:39 left in the quarter.
The Chiefs responded with touchdowns on their next two possessions to tie the game. Trent Green connected with Gonzalez on a 26-yard TD with 36 seconds left in the quarter and hit Morton with a 10-yard scoring play 5:44 into the second quarter, tying the game at 14-14.
An 11-yard touchdown pass from Favre to Ahman Green with 2:14 left in the second quarter gave the Packers a 21-14 halftime lead.
Green Bay then opened the third quarter with an eight-play, 76-yard drive that fullback Najeh Davenport capped with an 18-yard touchdown.
Longwell's 50-yard field goal with 6:01 left in the third quarter increased the lead to 31-14.
"I never really thought the game was under control," said Packers coach Mike Sherman. "They're an explosive unit."
"We lead by 17 going into the fourth quarter and had momentum, statistics, the whole game in our hands and then it just took a turn for the worse," said Packers receiver Antonio Freeman. "We have to give them a lot of credit. A lot of teams would have just accepted the loss, but they kept fighting and kept believing in themselves."
