Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30 Green Bay Packers 27 Sunday 30 September 1984 at Tampa Stadium CBS COMMENTARY CREW Jim Hill and John Dockery
This was a wild one. With six minutes left, nose tackle David Logan intercepted a screen pass and took it back for a TD that gave the Bucs a 27-20 lead. The Packers then launched a late drive that ended with 21 seconds remaining when Lynn Dickey hit James Lofton who ran the hook and ladder play to Gerry Ellis who scored from 36 yards out. The Bucs then held Green Bay twice in overtime before Obed Ariri kicked the game winner with 4:22 to play in the extra period. James Wilder set an NFL record by carrying the ball 43 times in one game breaking his own record set the previous year in Pittsburgh.
GAME SCORING TB 7:19-1Q Wilder 33 run (Ariri kick) GB 6:40-1Q Clark 43 run (Garcia kick) GB 5:00-1Q Garcia FG41 TB 6:12-2Q Ariri FG46 TB 0:30-2Q DeBerg 6 run (Ariri kick) GB 0:00-2Q Garcia FG51 GB 1:53-3Q Coffman 4 pass from Dickey (Garcia kick) TB 12:04-4Q Ariri FG49 TB 6:32-4Q Logan 27 interception return (Ariri kick) GB 0:08-4Q Ellis 36 pass from Dickey (Garcia kick) TB 4:22-OT Ariri FG48
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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Wilder 43-172, DeBerg 3-7, Morton 1-1. PACKERS: Clark 6-63, Ellis 14-58, Huckleby 5-29, Crouse 14-17. PASSING BUCS: DeBerg 40-21-246-3-0, Garcia 1-0-0-0-0. PACKERS: Dickey 31-16-232-3-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Carter 8-75, House 4-48, Wilder 4-44, J.Bell 2-28, Giles 1-23, Armstrong 1-16, Carver 1-12. PACKERS: Lofton 3-70, Ellis 3-41, Jefferson 3-37, Huckleby 3-28, Epps 2- 37, Clark 1-15, Coffman 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Logan 1-27, Brantley 1-4, Castille 1-0. PACKERS: Lewis 2-40, Anderson 1-22. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Morton 3-45, Bright 1-30, Wood 1-16. PACKERS: Epps 6-122, Prather 1-7. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Bright 2-14. PACKERS: Epps 3-19. SACKS BUCS: Browner 1-10, Selmon 1-6. PACKERS: Johnson 1-10, Scott 1-5, Murphy 1-5.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Sanders LDE 78 Cannon LG 72 Courson DT 76 Logan C 50 Wilson RDE 63 Selmon RG 62 Farrell LOLB 57 Browner RT 73 Heller LILB 58 Davis TE 88 Giles RILB 52 Brantley TE 82 Bell ROLB 53 Green WR 89 House LCB 23 Castille QB 14 Thompson RCB 21 Holt FB 46 Armstrong SS 43 Reece RB 32 Wilder FS 34 Brown PLAYED 2 Ariri, 5 Garcia, 16 Kiel, 20 Morton, 24 Harvey, 27 Acorn, 28 Carver, 29 Bright, 33 Cotney, 41 Thomas, 51 Washington, 54 Wood, 55 Spradlin, 56 Johnson, 60 Grimes, 67 Morgan, 71 Braggs, 75 Manor, 79 Kaplan, 81 Tuttle, 85 Witte, 86 Carroll, 87 Carter DID NOT PLAY 14 Thompson, 65 Jackson, 70 Thomas, 83 T Bell
VIDEO CLIPS James Wilder’s touchdown run opened the scoring Steve DeBerg even showed off his running skills for his own score David Logan’s pick six on a screen pass put the Bucs ahead