Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.
ARLINGTON, Texas
It would have been a ridiculous, inexcusable loss, the sort of thing that happens even to good NFL teams now and then, but that the Jets could not afford to happen at this late stage of the season.
Fortunately for them and their fans, they did what good teams are supposed to do to when encountering a scare from an inferior opponent: prevail. Somehow.
So the Jets did, beating the Cowboys, 19-16, Saturday night at AT&T Stadium on a 40-yard field goal with 26 seconds left by Randy Bullock — who earlier had missed a field goal and an extra point.