Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30 New York Giants 13 Sunday 2 November 1980 at Tampa StadiumCBS COMMENTARY CREWCurt Gowdy and Hank Stram
The Bucs ran up 23 unanswered first half points and Ricky Bell went over the 100-yard mark for the first time in the season as the Giants were demolished at Tampa Stadium. Mike Shumann caught a TD pass from Doug Williams in his first-ever game for the Bucs and three Garo Yepremian fieldgoals gave Tampa their decisive lead. 13 of the points came in the final minute of the half as Lee Roy Selmon forced two fumbled that led directly to 10 Buccaneer points.
GAME SCORINGTB 6:38-1Q Bell 21 run (Yepremian kick)TB 11:19-2Q Yepremian FG22TB 0:48-2Q Yepremian FG37TB 0:16-2Q Shumann 25 pass from Williams (Yepremian)TB 0:00-2Q Yepremian FG35NYG 1:28-3Q Shirk 8 pass from Simms (kick failed)TB 3:05-4Q Bell 1 run (Yepremian kick)NYG 0:49-4Q Heater 1 run (Danelo kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHINGBUCS: Bell 26-130, Eckwood 14-54, House 1-32, Williams 4-15, J.Davis 4-13.GIANTS: Taylor 14-56, Heater 5-16, Perry 1-5, P.Simms 1-1, Matthews 4-(-5).PASSINGBUCS: Williams 25-13-163-0-1, Eckwood 1-0-0-0-0.GIANTS: Simms 34-22-155-2-1.RECEIVINGBUCS: Bell 3-21, Jones 3-21, Shumann 2-47, Hagins 2-38, Eckwood 2-23, House 1-13.GIANTS: Taylor 11-67, Shirk 5-36, Gray 2-22, Matthews 2-(-1), Friede 1-26, Pittman 1-5.INTERCEPTIONSBUCS: Wood 1-15, Washington 1-0.GIANTS: none.KICK RETURNSBUCS: G.Davis 2-55, Jordan 1-0.GIANTS: B.Reece 5-99, Lapka 1-3, Pittman 0-11.PUNT RETURNSBUCS: Reece 4-10.GIANTS: Garrett 2-21.SACKSBUCS: Kollar 1-8.GIANTS: Martin 2-17, B.Reece 1-11.
VIDEO CLIPSRicky Bell opened the scoring with 21-yard touchdown runHis second score of the game was from much closerMike Shumann’s one and only Buccaneer touchdown