Micah Parsons’ hyped return to Dallas ends with Cowboys and Packers in 40-40 tie

by | Sep 29, 2025 | Sports

ARLINGTON, Texas — Micah Parsons and Dak Prescott both said winning was the only thing that mattered in the Green Bay pass rusher’s hyped return to Dallas to face the Cowboys and their franchise quarterback.Turns out neither star got what he wanted Sunday night.Brandon Aubrey and Brandon McManus traded short field goals in overtime, and Parsons’ only sack played a role in keeping Dallas out of the end zone in the extra period of a 40-40 tie.Prescott and Jordan Love had three touchdown passes apiece in regulation, which included seven consecutive lead-changing TDs before McManus’ tying 53-yard field goal as time expired.McManus kicked a 34-yarder as the clock hit 0:00 in OT, after Love’s pass into the back of the end zone fell incomplete with just a second remaining.“It’s hard to kind of wrap my head around it because I know I’d feel a hell of a lot worse if it was a loss,” Prescott said. “But I’m not satisfied. Not that I would be if we won.”What started as the hyped return of one of the game’s elite edge pass rushers exactly a month after the Cowboys (1-2-1) traded Parsons to the Packers (2-1-1) ended up as the second dramatic duel of quarterbacks in two home games for Dallas. The Cowboys beat the Giants 40-37 in overtime two weeks earlier when Russell Wilson was starting for New York.The second-highest scoring tie in pro football history, behind the Raiders’ 43-43 draw with the Boston Patriots in the AFL in 1964, was the first for Dallas since 1969. The Packers last tied in 2018.It was the fifth tie with both teams scoring in OT, going back to 2013 after the rules changed to where a field goal on the first possession of overtime didn’t end the game. All five …

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