BEST WILD CARD GAMES
	This is the first in a five-part ESPN SportsCenter series on the best NFL Wild Card Games of all-time, selected by a vote of ESPN.com users earlier this month. Follow the series on-air and on-line as ESPN brings you the best of the best.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In 1993, the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC West with an 11-5 record and hosted an AFC Wild Card Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Arrowhead Stadium. It was the fourth consecutive postseason appearance for the Chiefs but the first with Joe Montana at the controls.

Pittsburgh, meanwhile, arrived in town 9-7 under second-year coach Bill Cowher. The Steelers had fallen off in the second half of the regular season, however, finishing 3-5 to grab one of the final spots in the playoffs.

The game went back and forth, with the teams tied 17-17 midway through the fourth quarter. That's when the Steelers mounted a clock-eating, 75-yard drive -- capped by Neill O'Donnell's 22-yard touchdown pass to Eric Green that seemingly chopped the Chiefs' hopes to pieces.

	As he had with the 49ers, Joe Montana brought the Chiefs from behind late in the fourth quarter.

"We were never down; nobody ever believed that we couldn't win," said Kansas City tight end Keith Cash. "We knew we could win from the beginning, even when we got behind at halftime we knew we would come back."

And Cash came up with the play that turned the game.

There was less than five minutes left to play when the Steelers were forced to punt. Cash, the big tight end, crashed through the line to block Mark Royals' punt. The Chiefs recovered and returned it to the Steelers' 9-yard line.

"The blocked punt, everybody is keying on Albert (Lewis)," said Cash. "He went inside, and it was just me one-on-one with the tackle. I just beat him."

That set the stage for Montana, who thrived on desperate, late-game situations in San Francisco, winning four Super Bowls.

With less than three minutes left in the game, first-and-goal quickly turned into fourth-and-goal. Then, with 1:43 left and the Chiefs' season on the line, it was time for Montana's magic.

With good protection on the fourth-down play, Montana threw into the end zone and found Tim Barnett for the touchdown.

"We had confidence, because at that point the tide had changed," said Montana. "We were able to move the ball and get some things done, so we had a lot more confidence at that point than we did early."

"He's a great quarterback," said Steelers' defensive lineman Levon Kirkland. "He really did a good job of driving that team down the field and scoring when he had to score. I thought we played very well on defense, it just didn't go our way."

The game went into overtime tied 24-24. Montana's cool head and precision passing eventually put the Chiefs in position to win it, setting up kicker Nick Lowery for the game-winning field goal.

"It's everything for me," said Lowery. "I may have set a lot of records in my career, but they don't mean anything if you don't win in the playoffs, the big games."

"It's always good to get a win, no matter how you get it," adds Montana. "But, when you get it against a team like (Pittsburgh) and in the playoffs, it's always a little sweeter."

Final score: Chiefs 27, Steelers 24.