Tampa Bay Buccaneers 21 Green Bay Packers 10 Sunday 16 September 1979 at Lambeau Field CBS COMMENTARY CREW Lindsey Nelson and Paul Hornung
The Bucs set a club record with 235 yards rushing to win this one in Green Bay and also recorded their first three-game winning streak in franchise history in the process. Both Jerry Eckwood and Ricky Bell were just short of 100-yard games whilst Lee Roy Selmon led the defense with a pair of sacks.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 75 Reavis LDE 60 Chambers LG 64 Horton NT 77 Kollar C 50 Wilson RDE 63 Selmon RG 61 Roberts LOLB 57 Lewis RT 73 Hannah LILB 58 Selmon WR 85 Owens RILB 54 Wood WR 81 Hagins ROLB 56 Johnson TE 88 Giles LCB 45 White FB 43 Eckwood SS 33 Cotney RB 42 Bell FS 34 Brown QB 12 Williams RCB 40 Washington PLAYED 6 O'Donoghue, 16 Blanchard, 23 Ragsdale, 25 Jordan, 27 T Davis, 36 Berns, 38 J Davis, 44 Cesare, 46 Reece, 51 Nafziger, 53 Bonness, 55 Brown, 66 Yarno, 69 Austin, 70 Carlton, 71 Crowder, 74 Sanders, 79 Lewis, 84 Jones, 86 Obradovich, 87 Mucker DID NOT PLAY 14 Fusina, 15 Rae
GAME SCORING GB 0:14-1Q Marcol FG38 TB 10:38-2Q Eckwood 40 run (O'Donoghue kick) TB 9:30-3Q Bell 11 pass from Williams (O'Donoghue kick) TB 6:09-3Q Bell 19 run (O'Donoghue kick) GB 8:16-4Q Lofton 11 pass from Whitehurst (Marcol kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Eckwood 23-99, Bell 15-97, J.Davis 3-16, Jones 1-12, Berns 2- 11, Williams 1-2. PACKERS: Smith 10-35, Middleton 10-22, Whitehurst 4-16, Atkins 3-10, Culbreath 3-6. PASSING BUCS: Williams 24-12-132-1-1, Eckwood 1-0-0-0-0. PACKERS: Whitehurst 34-24-214-0-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Hagins 4-54, Owens 3-51, Bell 3-18, Jones 1-15, Eckwood 1-(- 6). PACKERS: Lofton 7-78, Smith 6-54, Atkins 5-27, Tullis 2-36, Middleton 2-12, Coffman 2-7. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. PACKERS: Johnson 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Ragsdale 2-47. PACKERS: Odom 2-51. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Reece 3-21, T.Davis 0-0. PACKERS: Odom 1-0. SACKS BUCS: L.Selmon 2-19, Logan 1-10. PACKERS: none.
VIDEO CLIPS Bill Kollar recovered a fumble after another devastating defensive hit Gordon Jones continued his good rookie season with another big catch Lee Roy Selmon’s fourth down sack ended the Packers’ final chance