Winning is hard in the NFL, even more so than:

*Getting your kids to put down their phones.

*Avoiding at least one little spat during your family get-togethers over the holidays.

*Remembering where your put your car keys.

Just look at what happened last weekend in the league:

*The defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City, who seldom lose, especially at home, fell at Arrowhead Stadium to the Buffalo Bills, who have been the most disappointing team in the NFL this season.

*The New York Giants, who were eliminated from playoff contention by about the official beginning of fall, beat one of the hottest teams in the league of late, the Green Bay Packers.

*The Detroit Lions, one of the NFC’s best teams this season, were dominated by the Chicago Bears, who got bounced from the playoff picture the week after the Giants.

*The New York Jets, who can’t score, especially with Zach Wilson at quarterback, scored more than enough points behind him to rout the red-hot Houston Texans.

*The Tennessee Titans, who can’t score points and were supposed to get rolled up on the road against the league’s highest-scoring team, the Miami Dolphins, won at the end.

*The defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles, who have a great defense, were horrible defensively — and offensively — in getting crushed by the Dallas Cowboys.

*And finally, The Team Over East, the Pittsburgh Steelers, who usually play extraordinarily well at home, particularly against bad teams, lost for a second straight week at The Confluence to a bad team, this time to to the Foxborough Belichicks, who finally got some good quarterback play, surprisingly from an unlikely source, a local high school kid they just signed named Johnny Football.

So, then, while the Browns nearly blew a two-touchdown, fourth-quarter lead, they still did something pretty remarkable in holding on to edge a division leader in the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-27 to improve to 8-5.

Enjoy it, appreciate it, celebrate it, everyone.

Steve King