Falcons Upset Bills in Wild Finish, 30-28 : Atlanta: Paul McFadden makes up for a kickoff mistake with 50-yard field goal with two seconds to play.

Paul McFadden won a game he thought he had lost on Sunday.

“I don’t think I ever had one with so much heat on me,” McFadden said of his 50-yard field goal with two seconds remaining that gave the Atlanta Falcons a 30-28 victory over the Buffalo Bills.

It was a wild finish in which the lead changed three times in the final 82 seconds. McFadden thought he had cost the Falcons a victory 80 seconds earlier when his low, line-drive kickoff was returned 85 yards to the Atlanta eight-yard line by rookie Don Beebe, setting up a a go-ahead score for Buffalo.

Atlanta (3-6) had just taken a 27-21 lead on Keith Jones’ leaping touchdown from the three with 1:22 to go.

Rookie Deion Sanders caught Beebe from behind on the long kickoff return, but two plays later Larry Kinnebrew scored on a one-yard run and Scott Norwood added the extra point for a 28-27 Buffalo lead.

“The kickoff really had me down,” McFadden said. “If we had walked in here with a loss, it would have all been on my shoulders. I had to make it because I was the one responsible for the predicament. It was a poor kick. No hang time. I knew I got us in a jam. I felt directly responsible.”

After Kinnebrew’s score, Atlanta took over at its 26 with 24 seconds left. Chris Miller threw a 41-yard pass to Stacey Bailey, who carried to the Buffalo 33, and Atlanta called its final time out with 12 seconds left. Miller then threw an incomplete pass and seven seconds remained when McFadden came in to kick.

It was the third field goal of the game for McFadden, whose 54-yarder in the second quarter was the longest of his career. He added a 26 yarder in the third period.

The victory snapped a two-game losing streak for Atlanta and a three-game winning streak for the Bills (6-3).

Jim Kelly returned to the Buffalo lineup after missing three weeks with a separated left shoulder. He completed 17 of 22 passes for 231 yards and two touchdowns.

He capped a 70-yard scoring drive with a six-yard pass to James Lofton in the first quarter and ended an 80-yard drive with an 11-yarder to Keith McKeller in the third.

Kelly came back to complete four of five passes for 45 yards in a 71-yard drive later in the third, a drive that ended on a two-yard run by Thurman Thomas.

Atlanta’s other scores came in the third quarter on a one-yard run by Jones and an 11-yard pass from Miller to Floyd Dixon.