The Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers entered their first meeting last season with a combined 15-2 record, good for the third-best winning percentage of any Week 10-or-later matchup in Monday Night Football history.
And unlike so many highly anticipated games that fall short of the hype, this one -- as play-by-play man Joe Tessitore put it on the ESPN broadcast -- over delivered.
The back-and-forth battle of NFC West rivals had a defensive touchdown by each team, a dominant individual performance from Jadeveon Clowney and some late magic from Russell Wilson.