Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7 Green Bay Packers 21 Sunday 4 January 1998 at Lambeau Field FOX COMMENTARY CREW Pat Summerall and John Madden
The Buccaneers trailed by just six points, 13-7, entering the final period but couldn’t pull off the upset in Lambeau Field in a Divisional Playoff game as the Packers held on to a 21-7 win. The Bucs had three scoring chances in the first quarter but failed on a fake fieldgoal, a fumbled snap and then a missed fieldgoal attempt. Missing opportunities like that was fatal in Green Bay and the only Buc score came after a 52-yard pass to Reidel Anthony set up Alstott’s score.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber LDE 72 Ahanotu LG 64 Diaz DT 77 Culpepper C 61 Mayberry DT 99 Sapp RG 73 Middleton RDE 91 Upshaw RT 70 Odom WLB 55 Brooks TE 80 Harris MLB 56 Nickerson WR 85 Anthony SLB 59 Porter WR 88 Copeland LCB 21 Abraham QB 12 Dilfer SS 47 Lynch FB 40 Alstott FS 22 Mincy RB 28 Dunn RCB 27 Parker PLAYED 4 Walsh, 5 Husted, 7 Landeta, 20 Barber, 23 Bouie, 25 Johnson, 32 Rhett, 37 Ellison, 45 Legette, 50 Gooch, 52 Bellisari, 53 Quarles, 65 Dogins, 69 Pierson, 71 Wunsch, 82 Hape, 84 Thomas, 86 Williams, 87 Davis, 90 Maniecki, 94 White, 97 Jackson DID NOT PLAY 49 Brady INACTIVES 13 Milanovich, 24 Robinson, 29 Gant, 31 Young, 48 Jordan, 51 Singleton, 60 Pyne, 75 Curry
GAME SCORING GB 5:36-1Q Chmura 3 pass from Favre (Longwell kick) GB 1:52-2Q Longwell FG21 GB 0:02-2Q Longwell FG32 TB 6:17-3Q Alstott 6 run (Husted kick) GB 13:37-4Q Levens 2 run (Favre run)
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud reports on the end of a great season Sapp was just unstoppable on and off the field Here endeth the lesson - until next year that is Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Dunn 18-64, Alstott 7-21, Anthony 1-5, Walsh 1-0. PACKERS: Levens 25-112, Henderson 2-4, Favre 5-2. PASSING BUCS: Dilfer 36-11-200-2-0, Walsh 1-1-0-0-0. PACKERS: Favre 28-15-190-2-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Copeland 4-44 , Moore 3-54, Dunn 2-34, Anthony 1-52, Thomas 1- 16, Davis 1-0. PACKERS: Freeman 4-75, Levens 4-29, Mayes 2-37, Chmura 2-20, Henderson 2-8, Brooks 1-21. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Abraham 2-0. PACKERS: Williams 1-14, Prior 1-13. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Anthony 4-68, White 1-6, Rhett 0-4. PACKERS: Freeman 2-36. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Anthony 1-21. PACKERS: Brooks 3-47. SACKS BUCS: Sapp 3-19, Culpepper 1-0. PACKERS: McKenzie 1-15, Butler 1-12.
VIDEO CLIPS Warren Sapp forces a fumble and gets personal with Brett Favre Trent Dilfer and Reidel Anthony hooked up for a long gainer Mike Alstott capped the drive with this scoring run