Green Bay 31 Dallas 42 --- November 24, 1994

   
   
   IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Jason Garrett is no Troy Aikman but the
   third-string quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys proved he's a winner.
   
   Garrett, starting only his second NFL game because of a knee injury to
   Aikman, threw two touchdown passes while completing 15-of-26 for 311
   yards, and led six consecutive scoring drives to rally Dallas from a
   14-point deficit to a 42-31 victory over the Green Bay Packers on
   Thursday.
   
   "Jason had a night to remember," said Dallas coach Barry Switzer, who
   had said before the game he believed in fairy tales. "Only a few
   people have moments like this in their life. I know I'll always
   remember 'The Red Ball Express' from Princeton."
   
   Then Switzer joked: "I guess we've got ourselves a quarterback
   controversy."
   
   Garrett, the Ivy Leaguer of the Year in 1988 for Princeton, didn't
   panic as the Cowboys (10-2) fell behind 17-3. He hit Alvin Harper and
   Michael Irvin with long touchdown passes and made the critical plays
   to position the Cowboys for two more touchdowns. Dallas scored 36
   second-half points, the most in the club's 34-year history.
   
   "There is a lot of firepower on this team and I was just 1-11th of
   it," Garrett said. "I tried to play within the system and let the guys
   make plays. Believe it or not, I felt confident."
   
   Garrett said he's making no claim to moving up on the depth chart.
   
   "I'll be on the scout team Monday and I have no problem with it," he
   said.
   
   How calm was Garrett? A fire alarm awakened the team during the night
   at a local hotel. Garrett slept through it.
   
   "I never heard the alarm," Garrett said. "Now that's being focused."
   
   The Packers (6-6) lost despite four touchdown passes from Brett Favre
   to Sterling Sharpe.
   
   "The comeback the Cowboys made shows why they are the world
   champions," Green Bay coach Mike Holmgren said. "We're shooting to get
   to that level. Garrett played well and made some good throws. It was a
   wild third quarter."
   
   Dallas took its first lead in the third period at 25-24 when Daryl
   Johnston scored on a 5-yard run after a 27-yard pass from Garrett to
   tight end Jay Novacek. Garrett found Emmitt Smith on a swing pass for
   68 yards and Smith scored on an 18-yard run as Dallas built the lead
   to 32-24 early in the fourth quarter.
   
   Smith ran for 133 yards, the first back to get 100 off Green Bay this
   season, and also caught six passes for 95 yards.
   
   "Now ol' Rudy (Garrett) did a great job," Smith said. "The guy is a
   paid professional; he's not some chump off the street. The job he did
   did credit to us all."
   
   Said Switzer: "We saw the picture 'Rudy' this morning in the hotel.
   All the players were calling him 'Rudy, Rudy.' This was a 'Field of
   Dreams' deal."
   
   The Cowboys struck again for a 39-24 edge when Garrett, whose arm
   isn't as strong as Aikman's, hit Irvin with a 35-yard touchdown pass.
   
   Kevin Williams returned the second-half kickoff 87 yards and Smith
   scored on the next play from five yards out to cut the deficit to
   17-13. But the Packers' Corey Harris returned the favor with a 59-yard
   return that set up Favre's 30-yard scoring pass to Sharpe.
   
   Dallas shaved the deficit to five points on a 45-yard pass from
   Garrett to Harper.
   
   Favre, 27-of-40 for 257 yards, threw two touchdown passes to Sharpe in
   the first half, then added a 30-yarder and a 5-yarder in the second.
   Sharpe caught 9 passes for 122 yards.
   
   A mistake by Garrett led to a 7-0 Packers lead in the first quarter.
   Terrell Buckley intercepted a pass at the Green Bay 40 and Favre took
   the Packers 60 yards to a touchdown. A 15-yard penalty on Tony Tolbert
   for a late hit on Favre helped the drive. Favre rolled out and hit the
   wide-open Sharpe for the touchdown from a yard out.
   
   Reggie White didn't start but soon made his presence felt, trapping
   Garrett for an 11-yard loss in the second period. It helped give Green
   Bay field position and the Packers made it 10-0 on a 28-yard field
   goal by Chris Jacke. White played despite a painful injury to his left
   elbow.
   
   "It was a minor miracle I played," White said. "Give the Cowboys
   credit for doing what they did. Garrett started getting rid of the
   ball a lot quicker in the second half and we couldn't get to him as
   much."
   
   Favre played beat the clock for his second touchdown pass, hitting
   Sharpe on a 36-yard strike with 36 seconds left.
   
   "We had them on the run," Favre said. "But we could never put them
   away."
   
   Holmgren said the Packers' sixth loss means they have to almost win
   out to have a chance in the NFC Central. They started the day a game
   behind Minnesota and Chicago.
   
   Chris Boniol kicked field goals of 41 and 37 yards in the first half
   and his 35-yarder with 47 seconds to play put the game out of reach.
   
   Twenty years ago, unheralded Clint Longley led the Cowboys to a win
   over the Washington Redskins on Thanksgiving Day when Roger Staubach
   was injured.
   
   "If there is such a thing as fairy tales, then Jason I guess has a
   fairy god-daddy," lineman Nate Newton said.