Matt Prater kicked a 28-yard field goal to lift the Denver Broncos to a 51-48 NFL win over the Dallas Cowboys in a shootout at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday.
Peyton Manning's Broncos improved to 5-0 on the season, becoming one of three undefeated teams left in the National Football League regular season.
Manning posted his second 400-yard game of the season, leading the Broncos to their 16th straight regular-season win and eighth consecutive on the road.
"We talked about at halftime that we needed to keep scoring," Manning said.
"We kept scoring and we had the huge defensive play at the end."
Denver tied the game on a one-yard touchdown run from Knowshon Moreno with 2:39 remaining, and Dallas got the ball back at their own 20 with all three timeouts. The Cowboys fell to 2-3.
But then Dallas quarterback Tony Romo threw an interception to Danny Trevathan and Denver got the ball back at Dallas' 24 yard line.
After a 13-yard catch by Demaryius Thomas that took the ball to the Dallas 11, Denver faced a third-and-one at the two and Moreno's one-yard run gave the Broncos a fresh set of downs.
Quarterback Manning then ran the clock down to two seconds before calling a timeout, setting the stage for Prater's heroic 28-yard field goal in front of a crowd of 92,758.
With the win Denver joins the Kansas City Chiefs and the New Orleans Saints as the only undefeated teams in the league.
The Broncos face the winless Jacksonville Jaguars at home next week.
The 37-year-old Manning finished the game 33-for-42 for 414 yards and four touchdowns, but also threw his first interception of the season. He added a rushing touchdown, his first in almost five years.
"It was a bad decision," Manning said of the interception.
"I thought I might be able to get one in there but didn't make a good throw."
In Cincinnati, BenJarvus Green-Ellis scored the lone touchdown to help the Cincinnati Bengals beat the New England Patriots 13-6, handing the Patriots their first loss of the season on Sunday.
Running back Green-Ellis, who played four seasons with the Patriots, powered straight ahead from a yard out on fourth down with just over nine minutes left in the fourth quarter.
In other games it was Green Bay downing Detroit 22-9, New Orleans over Chicago 26-18, and Kansas City beating Tennessee 26-17.
St Louis won their clash with Jacksonville 34-20, Indianapolis got up 34-28 over Seattle, Baltimore beat Miami 26-23, Philadelphia powered to a 36-21 victory over the New York Giants, and Arizona crushed Carolina 22-6.
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