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Chargers escape with victory over Bears after Eddy Pineiro's missed field goal

CHICAGO - After all their mistakes, all their self-inflicted shortcomings, all their gut-twisting failures, the Los Angeles Chargers won in the most unlikely of ways Sunday.

They won when the other team couldn't overcome its recent history of kicking woes.

The Chargers saw their flustering, maddening three-game losing streak suddenly end with a 17-16 victory when Chicago's Eddy Pineiro missed a 41-yard field goal as time expired.

The win also halted a stretch in which the Chargers had dropped five one-score games in

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