PRO FOOTBALL : This Time, Chiefs Hold Off Seahawks to Win, 20-13

What Derrick Thomas got out of Sunday’s game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Seattle Seahawks was even better than the NFL-record seven sacks he got last year when the teams played.

“I got a victory. We won, and that’s all that matters,” the linebacker said after the Chiefs withstood a hauntingly familiar fourth-quarter rally to win, 20-13. “But once again, it was scary at the end.”

Last year, the Seahawks earned a 17-16 victory when quarterback Dave Krieg connected with Paul Skansi for a 25-yard touchdown on the game’s final play.

This time, the Chiefs (2-2) seemed comfortably headed toward victory. But a pass-interference penalty on Billy Bell led to Derrick Fenner’s one-yard touchdown run with 1:39 left that made the score, 20-13. The Seahawks (1-3) recovered their onside kick, and Skansi made a 15-yard reception to the Chiefs’ 34.

“It was scary,” said linebacker Dino Hackett. “It seems like it always is with these guys.”

But this time, instead of Skansi, Chief linebacker Chris Martin caught the game’s last pass. Martin made a juggling interception of a pass from Jeff Kemp with 1:08 left to seal the victory.

Steve DeBerg passed for two touchdowns and Nick Lowery kicked two field goals for the Chiefs, whose defense kept the Seahawks from scoring the first five times they got inside the 20.

Kemp completed 18 of 30 passes for 232 yards.

Early in the fourth quarter, Harvey Williams took a swing pass from DeBerg and outran two defenders on a 15-yard scoring play that made the score 20-3.