The last time Bill Parcells stood at the center of Foxboro Stadium - on a stage for the AFC championship trophy presentation - he enjoyed the jubilation by Patriots players going on around him.
On Sunday night, he suffered through it.His New York Jets tied the game in the last minute of regulation, then lost when Adam Vinatieri's 34-yard field goal 8:03 into overtime gave New England, Parcells' former team, a 27-24 win.
"You leave a lot of yourself here," Parcells said. "There are an awful lot of kids over in the other dressing room that I'm very fond of and that will always be the case."
Many of his kids wore huge smiles as they shook hands on the field after the game with the somber Parcells, who coached them to last season's Super Bowl then resigned five days later in a rift with owner Robert Kraft. They are 3-0 under Pete Carroll.
Vinatieri was thankful that Parcells signed him as a rookie free agent last season.
"I appreciate the fact he gave me a chance, but I'm a Patriot to the core and it doesn't matter who we're playing against out there," Vinatieri said.
The Jets (1-2) tied the game on Neil O'Donnell's 24-yard scoring pass to Keyshawn Johnson with 31 seconds left in regulation. But rookie free agent John Hall's 29-yard field goal attempt with 16 seconds to go was blocked by Mike Jones just seconds after the Jets' Chad Cascadden recovered Derrick Cullors' fumble on the kickoff.
"Bill came back to town and brought a good football team in," said Drew Bledsoe, who had his worst day of the season. "We felt we had something to prove with Pete Carroll as coach, and we want to go onward and upward with Pete."
Carroll became the first Patriots coach to win the first three games of his tenure.
The Jets had an excellent chance to win when Hall, who was 6 for 7 on field goal attempts this season, missed what should have been an easy kick.
"I just kicked it too low," he said.
The kick was blocked by Jones - the first Patriot to shake Parcells' hand before the game.
That enabled the raucous fans, whose emotions soared and plummeted with the Patriots' fortunes, to go home happy when Vinatieri connected on his 12th straight successful field goal attempt and second of the game.
It capped a 62-yard drive on which Curtis Martin ran for the final 42 of his career-high 199 yards on 40 carries.
Ravens 24, Giants 23
Baltimore, 4-12 last year and 0-8 on the road, won at Giants Stadium on Matt Stover's 37-yard field goal with 34 seconds left.
The Ravens (2-1) took advantage of a missed extra point and two missed 41-yard field-goal attempts by New York's Brad Daluiso.
Lions 32, Bears 7
Barry Sanders, held to 53 yards in the season's first two games, rushed for 161 and Scott Mitchell had two TD passes for Detroit, which is 2-1 on the heels of last year's 5-11 showing that got Wayne Fontes fired.
Chicago fell to 0-3 for the first time since 1969 and also lost Rashaan Salaam, a 1,000-yard rusher in 1995, for the season with a broken right leg.
Redskins 19, Cardinals 13, OT
Michael Westbrook's fallaway, 40-yard touchdown catch 1:36 into overtime gave Washington a victory in the inaugural game at Jack Kent Cooke Stadium.
Westbrook also had a 5-yard TD catch in the second quarter.
The game-winner came after Redskins rookie Kenard Lang stripped Leeland McElroy of the ball on Arizona's first OT possession.
Chiefs 22, Bills 16
Elvis Grbac put Kansas City ahead with a 1-yard TD pass to Tony Richardson with 6:55 left, and the Chiefs stopped Buffalo on four plays inside the 10 in the final seconds.
The Bills drove from their 33 to a first down at the Chiefs 7 with 27 seconds left. But Todd Collins' pass on fourth down was intercepted by Mark McMillian in the end zone.
49ers 33, Saints 7
Steve Young, sidelined last week due to his third concussion in his last 10 regular-season games, threw three touchdown passes, and Rod Woodson intercepted three passes and recovered a fumble in San Francisco's rout.
The visiting Saints (0-3) turned the ball over eight times, and coach Mike Ditka finally put in Danny Wuerffel in place of Heath Shuler, who has eight interceptions and no TD passes this season.
Broncos 35, Rams 14
John Elway moved into sixth place in career NFL touchdown passes with 257 by throwing four in Denver's romp of visiting St. Louis.
Two of the TD passes were to Rod Smith for 72 and 38 yards, and Darrien Gordon returned a punt 94 yards for another score.
Terrell Davis had his third straight 100-yard rushing game, gaining 103 yards on 21 carries as the Broncos won 35-14 for the second straight week.
Panthers 26, Chargers 7
Carolina welcomed back quarterback Kerry Collins and wrecked the home debut of San Diego coach Kevin Gilbride.
Collins, playing for the first time since breaking his jaw on Aug. 9, threw two touchdown passes to tight end Wesley Walls, and John Kasay had four field goals.
Seahawks 31, Colts 3
At Indianapolis, Warren Moon, at 40 the oldest player in the NFL, passed for 270 yards and one touchdown in Seattle's first victory of the season.
Moon was 24-for-38, set up a first-quarter touchdown run by Lamar Smith and even ran for one touchdown himself, his first rushing TD in four years.
Raiders 36, Falcons 31
Jeff George, released by Atlanta a year ago after a sideline tantrum, threw a 76-yard pass that set up Cole Ford's tiebreaking field goal with 4:24 remaining.
Napoleon Kaufman ran 61 and 58 yards for touchdowns for Oakland, and Atlanta quarterback Chris Chandler was injured for the second week in a row.