Tampa Bay Buccaneers 33 Houston Oilers 24
Sunday 27 November 1983 at Tampa Stadium
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The Repus Bowl! Why Repus? It's Super spelt backwards and this
game was so named because both teams were 1-11 and deemed
to be as far away from the real thing as possible. The Bucs won it
thanks to an offensive performance that led to five touchdowns,
the first time in franchise history they had achieved that to that
point. Jack Thompson led the way with four scoring passes,
although three interceptions set up 21 of the Bucs' points on the
day. Future NFL Europe commissioner and son of future Colts
QB Andrew, Oliver Luck played QB for the Oilers in this game.
GAME SCORING
TB
14:56-2Q
Armstrong 6 pass from Thompson (kick failed)
TB
10:02-2Q
House 25 pass from Thompson (kick failed)
HOU
2:29-2Q
Kempf FG51
HOU
13:05-3Q
Campbell 1 run (Kempf kick
TB
11:17-3Q
House 41 pass from Thompson (Capece kick)
TB
8:56-3Q
Owens 4 run (Capece kick)
HOU
14:55-4Q
Campbell 2 run (Kempf kick
TB
8:45-4Q
Obradovich 2 pass from Thompson (Capece)
HOU
4:04-4Q
Dressel 7 pass from Luck (Kempf kick)
GAME REPORTS
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STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
LDE
66 Reese
LG
68 Yarno
NT
76 Logan
C
60 Grimes
RDE
63 Selmon
RG
62 Farrell
LOLB
51 Judie
RT
74 Sanders
LILB
58 Davis
TE
82 J Bell
RILB
54 Wood
TE
86 Obradovich
ROLB
53 Green
WR
83 T Bell
LCB
23 Castille
WR
89 House
SS
33 Cotney
RB
28 Carver
FS
43 Reece
QB
14 Thompson
RCB
21 Holt
PLAYED
1 Morton, 3 Capece, 5 Garcia, 7 Komlo, 22 Smith, 26 Owens, 24 Morris,
41 Thomas, 44 Middleton, 46 Armstrong, 52 Brantley, 55 Spradlin, 56
Thompson, 57 Leonard, 64 Lowry, 69 Arbubakrr, 85 Witte, 87 Carter, 90
White
DID NOT PLAY
11 Golsteyn, 72 Snell, 77 Bujnoch, 81 Tyler
INACTIVES
50 Wilson, 70 Thomas, 78 Cannon, 88 Giles
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Owens 20-80, Carver 9-38, Armstrong 3-15, Middleton 2-4,
Thompson 4-(-2).
OILERS: Campbell 24-87, Luck 1-5.
PASSING
BUCS: Thompson 29-17-224-0-4.
OILERS: Luck 31-19-186-3-1.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Obradovich 4-20, House 3-68, Armstrong 3-43, Carter 2-49,
Owens 2-17, Carver 2-12, T.Bell 1-15.
OILERS: Smith 8-97, Craft 4-24, Dressel 2-18, Bryant 1-19, Renfro 1-11,
Holston 1-9, Walls 1-9, Campbell 1-(-1).
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Reece 2-30, Reese 1-11.
OILERS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Morton 2-45, Smith 1-13, Obradovich 1-0.
OILERS: Brown 2-98, Roaches 2-26, Dressel 1-13.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Holt 3-31, T.Bell 1-6.
OILERS: Roaches 2-5.
SACKS
BUCS: Selmon 1-12, Green 1-9.
OILERS: Baker 1-8, Hamm 1-6.
VIDEO CLIPS
Kevin House had one of Jack Thompson’s four touchdown passes
James Owens weighed in with a touchdown run
Jim Obradovich had his final Buccaneer touchdown in the second half
