KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The last time this happened, all but eight of Seattle's current players were still in college or high school.

Not since 1990, and only twice since 1979, had the Seahawks left Arrowhead Stadium as winners. But in this remarkable turnaround year under Mike Holmgren, everything seems to be changing for Seattle, which beat the Chiefs 31-19 on Sunday.

	Ricky Watters eludes Chiefs cornerback Eric Warfield to score one of his three touchdowns.

"Look, you're not going to intimidate us any more," quarterback Jon Kitna said after the victory that snapped the Seahawks' eight-game losing streak at Arrowhead.

"We're going to attack. We're not going to sit back and let you attack us anymore."

Ricky Watters scored three touchdowns to lead Seattle to its fifth consecutive win and hand the Chiefs their third straight loss and their first at home in more than a year.

"We came into a very tough stadium, a difficult place to win a football game," said Holmgren, who was 0-2 in Arrowhead as Green Bay's head coach. "So, for a young team that's still figuring things out, this is an important win."

The Seahawks, who have not reached the playoffs in 11 years, are off to their best start since 1984. They beat the Chiefs for just the third time in their last 17 meetings and scored more points than the Chiefs had allowed at home since 1988.

"The bottom line is the defense didn't hold up our end of the bargain," Chiefs linebacker Marvcus Patton said. "I'm not really sure what happened."

GAME NOTES

Seattle has won back-to-back games against the Chiefs for the first time since a sweep in the 1990 season. The Seahawks also won 24-12 on Nov. 8, 1998, at the Kingdome. At 8-2, the Seahawks have already matched their win total from 1998. They are off to their best start since 1984, when they started 12-2 before losing their last two games and finishing 12-4. They also lead the AFC West by more than two games for the first time in their history. Donnell Bennett's six touchdowns this season are a career high. His previous high was five TDs in 1998. Kansas City has made an interception in nine consecutive games. Pete Stoyanovich has not missed in 12 field-goal attempts at Arrowhead this season. He is 3-for-8 in road games.

Watters, who rushed for 107 yards, nailed it down with a 5-yard touchdown run with 2:43 remaining -- several plays after his 45-yard run on third down.

"It's a huge game for us, no doubt," Watters said. "We had some chances to put them away, and we didn't. But we did when we needed to."

Kitna hit 14 of 33 passes for 235 yards and two touchdowns, but he was outplayed by Elvis Grbac, who had his best day as a Chief by going 30-for-49 for 322 yards.

"We did some great things passing-wise but we just didn't score enough points," Grbac said. "We didn't make the big play."

Leading 14-13 at halftime, the Seahawks went up 24-13 in the third quarter on Todd Peterson's 38-yard field goal and Kitna's 45-yard touchdown pass to Sean Dawkins.

But Grbac led the Chiefs right back on an eight-play, 59-yard march, capped by Donnell Bennett's second touchdown, a 4-yard burst up the middle that made it 24-19 with 6:49 left.

While the Seahawks seem virtually assured a trip to the playoffs in Holmgren's first year as general manager and coach, the Chiefs in Gunther Cunningham's first year might be doomed to sitting out the postseason for the third time in four years. They don't get to play at home again until after trips to Oakland and Denver.

"I'm not ever going to roll over," Cunningham said. "I think we have a lot of issues to address to regain where we were."

The Chiefs, who had promised to open up their stodgy offense, did just that on their first possession. Grbac connected on his first five passes on a 71-yard drive that ended with Pete Stoyanovich's 29-yard field goal.

Daniel Pope's punt pinned the Seahawks on their own 8 a few minutes later. But Kitna went to a third down only once during an impressive 13-play touchdown march.

The first-year starter connected with Dawkins on gains of 12 and 16 yards, and Watters had runs of 14 and 25 before capping the drive with a 2-yard scoring run.

Bennett's 1-yard run with 5:03 left in the first half put the Chiefs ahead 10-7. On Seattle's next possession, Kitna connected with Watters for 13 yards and Dawkins for 18 before Watters took a pass on the left flank and turned it into a 22-yard touchdown with 1:46 left in the half.

The teams then exchanged fumbles at midfield on back-to-back plays before the Chiefs got Stoyanovich in position for another 29-yarder with two seconds remaining, cutting Seattle's lead at halftime to one point.