Tampa Bay Buccaneers 37 Atlanta Falcons 3 Sunday 16 December 2007 at Raymond James Stadium FOX COMMENTARY CREW Matt Vasgergian and JC Pearson
The day history was made. After 32 seasons, the Bucs finally returned a kickoff for a touchdown as Micheal Spurlock went 90 yards into franchise legend. Tampa Bay made certain of their playoff berth and won the game with ease but no-one will ever remember that - this was Spurlock’s day.
GAME SCORING TB 14:00-1Q Barber 29 interception return (Bryant kick) ATL 6:32-1Q Andersen FG33 TB 6:19-1Q Spurlock 90 kickoff return (Bryant kick) TB 11:24-2Q Bryant FG33 TB 4:09-2Q Graham 1 run (Bryant kick) TB 0:00-2Q Bryant FG28 TB 4:08-3Q Bryant FG34 TB 7:42-4Q Becht 1 pass from Garcia (Bryant kick)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from Raymond James Stadium Martin Fennelly's award-winning column How Joe Henderson saw it unfold Tom McEwen - the dean of Buccaneer sports writers How Rick Stroud saw the events on Sunday Gary Shelton's morning-after column Micheal Spurlock - in his own words More on the Buc who made history Sunday Ira Kaufman adds his views on the memorable return Player by player - how the return unfolded Ronde Barber takes it to the house ... again Game notes and anecdotes Scott Smith's official game report The official gamebook and play-by-play
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn DE 93 Carter LG 78 Sears DT 71 Haye C 76 Wade DT 95 Hovan RG 75 Joseph DE 90 Adams RT 65 Trueblood WLB 55 Brooks TE 81 Smith MLB 51 Ruud WR 80 Clayton SLB 59 June WR 84 Galloway LCB 20 Barber FB 44 Storer RCB 31 Buchanon RB 34 Graham SS 23 Phillips QB 7 Garcia FS 28 Jackson PLAYED 3 Bryant, 5 Gradkowski, 9 Bidwell, 17 Spurlock, 19 Hilliard, 22 Davis, 25 Kelly, 26 Allen, 29 Bennett, 32 Pittman, 39 Pearson, 48 Economos, 54 Chukwurah, 56 Nece, 57 Hayward, 58 Black, 68 Lehr, 69 Davis, 85 Stovall, 87 Heinrich, 88 Becht, 91 White, 98 Sims DID NOT PLAY 12 McCown INACTIVES 30 Crockett, 33 Darby, 35 Askew, 50 Trotter, 72 Buenning, 94 Spires, 96 Peterson
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Graham 22-79, Bennett 9-63, Pittman 13-50, Clayton 1-0, Gradkowski 3-(-2). FALCONS: Norwood 9-73, Dunn 8-32, Redman 1-1, Mughelli 1-1, Snelling 1- (-1). PASSING BUCS: Garcia 25-15-109-1-0. FALCONS: Redman 15-4-34-2-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Graham 5-40, Pittman 3-20, Clayton 2-22, Becht 2-10, Hilliard 1-9, Galloway 1-7, Storer 1-1. FALCONS: Robinson 1-18, Dunn 1-7, Jenkins 1-5, White 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Barber 1-29, Philiips 1-2. FALCONS: Hall 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Spurlock 2-98. FALCONS: Jennings 4-93, Norwood 2-32. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Hilliard 5-31. FALCONS: Jennings 1-0. SACKS BUCS: Adams 1-7. FALCONS: Abraham 1-9, Davis 1-5.