Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 New Orleans Saints 17
Sunday 17 December 1978 at Tampa Stadium
CBS COMMENTARY CREW Gary Bender and Hank Stram
The Saints gained some revenge for the Bucs' first-ever win 12
months before. Doug Williams returned after missing a month out
with a broken jaw and played the whole game unable to audible
as his mouth was wired shut. Archie Manning's TD pass to Henry
Childs with just over 10 minutes left in the season was the game-
winner.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
DE
73 Hannah
LG
64 Horton
DT
76 Pear
C
79 Wilson
DE
77 Kollar
RG
72 Puetz
LOLB
57 Lewis
RT
70 Carlton
LILB
61 D Selmon
TE
86 Obradovich
RILB
54 Wood
TE
88 Giles
ROLB
56 Johnson
WR
87 Mucker
LCB
45 White
FB
38 Davis
RCB
40 Washington
RB
32 Carter
SS
33 Cotney
QB
12 Williams
FS
34 Brown
PLAYED
4 Green, 6 O'Donoghue, 19 Huff, 23 Ragsdale, 25 Jordan, 28 White, 41
Farmer, 46 Reece, 49 Gill, 51 Nafziger, 52 Harris, 53 Bonness, 55
Brown, 59 Inmon, 60 Chambers, 65 Johnson, 68 Medlin, 71 Crowder, 74
Freitas, 83 Grant, 85 Owens, 89 McKay
DID NOT PLAY
15 Rae
GAME SCORING
NO
6:18-1Q
Mike-Mayer FG32
TB
0:09-1Q
O'Donoghue FG47
NO
5:00-3Q
Muncie 21 run (Mike-Mayer kick)
TB
14:57-4Q
Giles 2 pass from Williams (O'Donoghue kick)
NO
10:56-4Q
Childs 1 pass from Manning (Mike-Mayer kick)
GAME REPORTS
Click here for the gamebook and play-by-play
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Davis 9-44, Carter 7-31, Ragsdale 5-27, Williams 1-0.
SAINTS: Muncie 11-68, Galbreath 11-60, Strachan 8-25, Jones 5-17,
Manning 3-1.
PASSING
BUCS: Williams 22-7-96-0-1, Carter 1-0-0-0-0.
SAINTS: Manning 36-25-250-2-1.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Mucker 2-56, Giles 2-19, Ragsdale 2-10, Carter 1-11.
SAINTS: Childs 6-80, Chandler 6-56, Galbreath 5-35, Hardy 2-44, Mauti
2-9, Muncie 2-1, Harris 1-19, Jones 1-6.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Washington 1-24, Lewis 1-7.
SAINTS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Giles 2-24, Reece 1-24.
SAINTS: Mauti 1-39, Chandler 1-33, Schwartz 1-19.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Reece 3-37.
SAINTS: Chandler 5-36, Myers 0-0.
SACKS
BUCS: none.
SAINTS: Campbell 1-14, Reese 1-7.
VIDEO CLIPS
Jimme Giles had the final touchdown of the Buccaneer season
Naturally Mike Washington picked off another bad Archie Manning pass
David Lewis had an interception of his own
