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	Tony Romo completed 19 of 23 passes for 236 yards to lead the Cowboys to a 21-14 win over the Colts on Sunday. Al Tielemans/SI
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NEW YORK -- Weird stuff happens every year in the NFL. I'm not saying this year has any more than normal, but consider these unlikely happenings on Sunday, and where we are at the 10-game mark of the 2006 season:

• With a first-year quarterback playing, the Chargers have come back from 21- and 17-point deficits on the road to beat playoff teams in successive weeks. With Philip Rivers under center, San Diego has put up 49 points on Cincinnati and 35 on Denver and taken the mantel from Indianapolis as the game's most exhilarating offense.

• Speaking of the Colts, they lost. The sun rose this morning. Almost predictable after nine season-opening wins, especially against a physical 3-4 defensive front, which always vexes Peyton Manning. The odd thing here: Someone named Tony Romo outplayed Manning down the stretch and beat him.

• New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, spurned by the Chargers and Dolphins in the offseason because of major surgery to repair a torn labrum, added to his NFL-leading 3,114 passing yards with a video-game-like 510-yard passing day, the most in the NFL in 10 years. Some sore arm.

• LaDainian Tomlinson had his second straight four-touchdown game. Not strange, really. This is: Tomlinson's 22 touchdowns this season are two more than offensive genius Mike Shanahan's team has scored in 2006.

• New England's 2-3 at home. The two worst teams in creation, Detroit and Oakland, are 2-3 at home.

• New England's 5-0 on the road, and the last four wins have come by margins of 35, 24, 22 and 25 points.

• The 49ers are a game behind Seattle in the NFC West, with the tiebreaker advantage. San Francisco built a 20-0 first-half lead over Seattle and held on to win 20-14.

• The two Super Bowl teams from last year, Pittsburgh and Seattle, are a combined 10-10.

• The two teams Sports Illustrated picked for the Super Bowl, Carolina and Miami, are a combined 10-10.

• The two teams we thought would compete for next year's top draft pick, San Francisco and the Jets, are a combined 10-10.

• Buffalo wideout Lee Evans had two 83-yard touchdown catches in the first quarter at Houston on Sunday.

• Weirder: J.P. Losman threw them.

• Weirdest: Losman has a better touchdown-to-interception differential (plus-3) than Byron Leftwich (plus-2), Steve McNair (plus-1), Chad Pennington (minus-1) and Ben Roethlisberger (minus-5).

• Miami scored 24 points in beating Minnesota on Sunday -- and did it with negative rushing yards. The Vikings held the Dolphins to -3 yards on the ground -- the first time since 1961 that a team was held below zero running and won.

• A seventh-round rookie from Hofstra, Marques Colston, has more receiving yards than Marvin Harrison, Torry Holt and Terrell Owens.

• Terrell Owens and Bill Parcells haven't killed each other. Yet.

• Brian Billick fired his offensive coordinator and former very close friend Jim Fassel a month ago, and the Ravens have scored 35, 26, 27 and 24 points since. They're 4-0. I bet if Billick fires Ozzie Newsome and Steve Bisciotti, Baltimore will win the Super Bowl.