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Brett Favre threw for 392 yards and three touchdown passes as the NFC North-leading Minnesota Vikings sent divisional rivals Chicago to a 36-10 defeat in Minneapolis.

After a scoreless opening period, veteran quarterback Favre ignited the Vikings with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Percy Harvin, all three of his scoring passes coming in the second quarter as Minnesota took a 24-7 half-time lead.

Two second-half field goals and a rushing touchdown from Adrian Peterson sealed the home victory which moved the Vikings to 10-1 while the Bears fell further behind the divisional leaders with a 4-7 record.

Quarterback Vince Young delivered for the Tennessee Titans at the perfect time to hand his side a home win over the NFC West-leading Arizona Cardinals in Nashville.

Young, the third pick overall in the 2006 NFL draft, had been out in the cold over the last two seasons as the Titans preferred veteran Kerry Collins, but a 0-6 start to the 2009 campaign saw the 26-year-old return to the starting line-up and Young led Tennessee to a fifth win in a row in a 20-17 win over the Cardinals.

Young had thrown 377 yards without a touchdown pass but came up big with six seconds left on the clock by throwing a game-winning 10-yarder to rookie wide receiver Kenny Britt and send Arizona home with a 7-4 record.

The San Francisco 49ers, divisional rivals of the Cardinals, put a dent in the winning record of the Jacksonville Jaguars by beating the AFC South side 17-3 at Candlestick Park, sending the visitors' record to 6-5 while moving to 5-6.

The Kansas City Chiefs were put to the sword in California as the AFC West-leading San Diego Chargers racked up its sixth win in succession and moved to 8-3 with a 43-14 win which sent the visitors to their eighth defeat of the campaign.

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers had another impressive evening, throwing two touchdown passes and passing for 317 yards as San Diego stayed one win ahead of divisional rivals Denver.

Rookie defensive lineman Paul Kruger's interception on stand-in quarterback Dennis Dixon handed the Baltimore Ravens the platform for an overtime victory over the Super Bowl-champion Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday's late NFL game.

The Ravens defeated the visiting Steelers 20-17 to spoil Dixon's night after the 24-year-old had replaced Ben Roethlisberger when the regular choice quarterback failed to shake off the effects of a concussion.

Yet Dixon, in the first start of his NFL career, was made to pay for his first and only interception of the game with 10 minutes of sudden-death overtime remaining after the game had been tied at 17-17 in regulation.

Once Kruger had intercepted and returned the ball to the Steelers' 29 yard line, Billy Cundiff sealed victory with a field goal, having seen his 56-yard effort to end the contest with the last play of the game drop short of the posts and send it into overtime.

With victory the Ravens pulled level with the Steelers at 6-5 in AFC North, both teams trailing the division-leading Cincinnati Bengals (8-3).