Giants Beat Dallas Cowboys With Last-Second Defense ARLINGTON, Tex. - On one sideline, the Dallas Cowboys players bounced around anxiously, hoping their miracle had come true. On the other, the Giants players waited nervously, praying they had not been beaten by the unlikeliest of desperation plays. Finally, the referee Scott Green emerged from the replay hood and delivered the verdict: the Giants had survived. Barely. The surreal sequence, in which Tony Romo's 37-yard touchdown pass to Dez Bryant with 10 seconds left was overturned because Bryant's hand touched out of bounds just before the rest of his body landed in the end zone, spared the Giants from what would have been a brutal defeat. Instead, they escaped Cowboys Stadium with a 29-24 victory that left the Cowboys ruing their six turnovers and left the Giants - more than anything else - relieved. "Long foul ball," cornerback Corey Webster said of Bryant's catch-that-wasn't. Maybe it looked like a home run, but he had to go back up to bat. Webster's professed confidence about the call being overturned was not shared by all his teammates. Several said they felt dread when the officials initially signaled touchdown and defensive tackle Chris Canty said it was "a sickening feeling" to think that the Giants were going lose a game they once led by 23 points. As the seconds passed and Green reviewed the play, however, a number of Giants were heartened by the fact that the Cowboys never showed a replay of the catch on the stadium's video boards. Eli Manning said he thought that "was a good sign," and defensive end Justin Tuck said he noticed the lack of a replay immediately and figured that meant Bryant had not stayed inbounds. It was only later that he learned the Giants were inches away from a demoralizing loss. "What are the dimensions?" he said, referring to the size of the field. I'm glad they got them right here. Tuck spoke to reporters wearing a team-issued sweatsuit, as the team's standard dress code for road trips - coat and tie required - was waived after the game in the interest of time. Players rushed to get out of their uniforms, and the team hurried to the airport in an attempt to fly home before weather worsened on the East Coast. John Mara, one of the team's owners, said United Airlines had told the team they would most likely be able to land at Newark Liberty International Airport late Sunday or early Monday, but Mara acknowledged there was a possibility the team's flight might be diverted because of Hurricane Sandy. "Maybe we'll end up back in Appleton, Wis., again," Mara said wryly, referring to the 2010 season, when a blizzard stranded the Giants after a game against Green Bay. Of course, any concerns about their travel would have surely felt worse for the Giants if they had managed to give away a game in which they once seemed on course for a blowout victory. They won in spite of Manning's passing for only 192 yards while running back Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for only 78 yards on 22 carries and lost a fumble. The Giants" best offensive player, by far, was kicker Lawrence Tynes, who did not miss a kick all day and provided what proved to be the game's decisive points with the fourth of his five field goals five minutes into the fourth quarter. The victory pushed the Giants to 6-2 and gives them a commanding lead in the N.F.C. East. The Cowboys received 437 passing yards from Romo, but also four interceptions, and dropped to 3-4, tied with Philadelphia and two and a half games behind the Giants. The wild finish was a fitting culmination to an odd game in which the teams rarely played well at the same time. The Giants stormed to a 23-point advantage over the first 17 minutes - highlighted by Jason Pierre-Paul's first career touchdown off a remarkable interception return - only to watch the Cowboys zoom past with 24 unanswered points over the next 24 minutes to take an unlikely lead. Romo kept Cowboys" rally going when Coach Jason Garrett aggressively had the Cowboys go for it on fourth down from the Giants" 1 early in the third quarter, and Romo scampered into the end zone as the crowd of 94,067 exploded. Five and a half minutes later, Romo put the Cowboys ahead with a 1-yard scoring pass to tight end John Phillips. "Every time we come here, it's a nail-biter in some way, shape or form," Coach Tom Coughlin said. That's the way it is in this division. Still, the Giants knew they should have been much further ahead. After all, here is what the Cowboys did on their first four possessions of the game: interception, interception, punt (after the third-down snap was airmailed over Romo's head) and an interception returned for a touchdown. They also mixed in a fumbled punt by Bryant, who actually lost the ball twice, muffing it initially when he underestimated Steve Weatherford's kick, then dropping it again after picking it up and trying to run.