No matter how well he may have been playing in the first half of Sunday's game, a 2423 win by the Browns, you knew it was just a matter of time before the veteran quarterback would screw things up, start throwing to the guys in the wrong coloured jerseys and turn what once looked like a walk in the park into a nailbiter.

The 110 Carolina Panthers are not a team that knows how to mount anything resembling a rally but thanks to Delhomme finding his interception form in the third quarter, he breathed life into the corpse of his former team.

Delhomme, making just his second start of the season and his first since the opening week of the season, opened up like Joe Montana as he completed his first five passes on an opening drive that ended with a TD run by Peyton Hillis.

Steelers 19, Bills 16

Shaun Suisham booted a 41yard field goal late in overtime to lift Pittsburgh past Buffalo.

The field goal, Suisham's fourth of the game, came after Bills receiver Steve Johnson dropped a pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick in the end zone early in OT. Rashard Mendenhall had 151 yards rushing and a touchdown for the Steelers while Ben Roethlisberger passed for 246 yards. Hines Ward had seven catches for 107 yards.

Rian Lindell kicked three field goals for the Bills, including a 49yarder in the dying seconds that forced overtime. Fitzpatrick passed for 265 yards and Fred Jackson caught five passes for 104 yards and a touchdown.

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Kevin Boss's 32yard touchdown with just over three minutes left in the fourth quarter capped a 69yard drive and gave New York the win over Jacksonville.

The Jags had one last chance but three straight sacks of David Garrard, the last one forcing a fumble that the Giants recovered with 90 seconds left, sealed it. Garrard completed 20 of 35 passes for just 162 yards and was picked off once.

New York's Eli Manning passed for 226 yards and hit Mario Manningham and Boss with secondhalf touchdowns.

Vikings 17, Redskins 13

Minnesota made Leslie Frazier's debut as head coach a successful one as Adrian Peterson and Toby Gerhart ran for touchdowns in the win over Washington.

Peterson was held to 36 yards before leaving with an injured right ankle in the first half while Gerhart ran for 76 yards on 22 carries. Brett Favre threw for 172 yards for the Vikings.

Donovan McNabb passed for 211 yards and a touchdown, a 10yarder to Fred Davis early in the game, and Brandon Banks returned a kickoff 65 yards for a touchdown.

Falcons 20, Packers 17

Matt Bryant kicked a 47yard field goal with nine seconds left as Atlanta extended its winning streak to five games and stayed one game ahead of New Orleans atop the NFC South. Robert Mathis Colts Jersey

Green Bay's Jordy Nelson caught a touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers with 56 seconds left but Matt Ryan, who passed for 198 yards and a touchdown, drove the Falcons to the Packers 29 to set up Bryant's winning FG.

The Packers called timeout before Bryant got the kick off but he calmly made the second attempt.

Texans 20, Titans 0

Houston's Andre Johnson caught a twoyard touchdown pass before being ejected in the fourth quarter for fighting with Tennessee defender Cortland Finnegan. Arian Foster rambled for 143 yards and caught nine passes for 75 yards but was kept out of the end zone by the Titans.

Matt Schaub was 25 of 35 for 178 yards and two touchdowns, one each to Johnson and Joel Dreessen.

The Texans held Chris Johnson, a 2,000yard runner in 2009, to just five yards.

Dolphins 33, Raiders 17

Miami overcame a 101yard touchdown by receiver Jacoby Ford on the opening kickoff to down Oakland.

Ravens 17, Buccs 10

Todd Heap and Derrick Mason caught secondquarter touchdown passes and Baltimore withstood a fourthquarter rally to down Tampa Bay.

With the game tied 33, Heap hauled in a 65yard TD pass from Joe Flacco to give the Ravens the lead for good. Flacco, who had 289 yards passing, then hooked up with Mason from 10 yards out to give Baltimore a 173 halftime lead.

The story perplexed me. I had nothing against homosexual couples, but I was thinking this is crazy. Ninia was named after a friend of mine. know about this?" thinking her mother would be mad. knows. She introduced me to Genora." Genora Dancel was a 30 yearold television engineer who worked with Ninia's mother at Hawaii Public Television. Ninia was wearing a ruby and diamond engagement ring Genora had given her three months after they became a couple. Jason McCourty Titans Jersey

"I had fallen in love. Genora had proposed but there was no legal place for us to marry," she said. Genora said there were also practical issues. When Ninia had been sick and gone to the hospital, they found she could not be covered by Genora's health insurance. Ninia was uninsured.

The other gay couples applying for marriage licenses that day were Tammy Rodrigues and Antoinette Pregil, and Pat Lagon and Joseph Melillo.

Ninia was sitting on her back porch in Amsterdam, Montana, when I called her this week to talk about her role in Baehr v. Lewin, the landmark lawsuit bearing her name Hawaii's legal case that kicked off the first court arguments in the country about allowing gays to marry. And also prompted Congress to approve the Defense of Marriage law to prohibit gays from applying for federal benefits and allow states to deny recognition to legally married gays a law reversed earlier this year.

When the quest for marriage equality began, Ninia was 30 years old. Now she is 53. She has watched as thousands of people like me have slowly come to understand the reasonableness of samegender marriages.

Ninia told me I wasn't the only one who was perplexed when they unsuccessfully applied for Hawaii marriage licenses. She said at the time many gays questioned the need to push for marriage.

When the Health Department told Ninia and Genora and the other couples they would have to wait until the health director received legal advice about their marriage applications, they went to American Civil Liberties Union. Ninia said the Hawaii ACLU was sympathetic but refused to represent them. Lambda Legal Defense Fund, a gay legal rights organization, also turned them down. "No national group wanted to take the case, " said Baehr. "They didn't think we would win. They were afraid of the backlash."

Honolulu attorney Daniel R. Foley finally accepted them as clients. He filed a lawsuit in Circuit Court May 1, 1991. The suit contended that denying marriage to same sex couples was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Hawaii Constitution. Jurrell Casey Jersey

In October 1991, the trial court dismissed the suit. The plaintiffs appealed to the Hawaii Supreme Court. In May 1993, the high court ruled there was a presumed violation of the couples' equal protection rights unless the state could show a "compelling state interest" in denying the marriages. Chang ruled the state's lawyers failed to established a compelling reason to block same gender marriages.

"We thought we had won," said Ninia. But while state's lawyers were appealing the decision, the Legislature crafted a constitutional amendment to limit marriage to a man and a woman. Hawaii voters adopted the amendment November 3, 1998. That reversed the plaintiffs' earlier victory.

By the time the amendment was adopted, Ninia and Genora were separated. They had been together for seven years but Ninia said the lack of privacy resulting from the case was tearing them apart. They moved to Maryland to get out of the limelight, but when samegender marriage became a national issue, public attention followed them.

"We were a new couple when we became the poster children for samesex marriage. It was stressful. We had no institutions to support us. We were paying for our own legal bills check by check," said Ninia.

Genora met another woman, Kathryn Dennis, an editor with whom she has lived for more than 15 years. In 2006, Genora and Kathryn moved back to Honolulu where Genora works as the City's wastewater systems lead electronic technologist.

Genora says she and Kathryn expect to marry soon after lawmakers approve the bill to allow gay marriages. "I was always the one who said it was going to happen in my lifetime. I just want to get married and stay married," she said.

Ninia has lived with another partner for more than a decade, Lori Hiris, an artist and filmmaker She hopes to marry Lori but says they are waiting because Montana still does not recognize samegender marriages. in American Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman.

She is disappointed it has taken Hawaii so long to legalize gay marriages when the Hawaii courts were the first in the country to issue rulings to open the way for marriage equality. "It is so sad. Hawaii had to give up its chance to be a leader, to be the first to make it law. Now Hawaii will be the 15th state to OK gay marriages. Better late than never."

She said although she and Genora parted company years ago, they are still close. "Genora and I will always be very connected through this. We always call each other whenever something important happens."

"We were ordinary people involved in something extraordinary. I am very proud of what we did."

Denby Fawcett is a veteran newspaper and television journalist.

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MarylandThe gay marriage bill was signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) on March 1, 2012. Opponents later gathered enough signatures to force the issue back onto the ballot in November 2012, but voters rejected the effort against gay marriage.

A new play chronicling Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' romance and marriage is set to open in Los Angeles thanks to donations from fans.

The TomKat Project received favourable reviews when it debuted in Chicago earlier this year (13), but producers were struggling with funding to stage the production in Los Angeles, ironically at a theatre just a few hundred feet from a leading Church of Scientology building. That figure has been met and the play is now set to open at the iO West Theater in Hollywood.

Now producer Dein Sofley tells The Hollywood Reporter he only has one major concern that leading Scientologists will try to keep people from seeing the comedy in a bid to protect prominent church member Cruise. Authentic D'Qwell Jackson Jersey

He says, "Our biggest concern is that the church might catch wind and purchase all of the tickets so that there would be no seats."