INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Bell 20-59, Mucker 1-24, Eckwood 2-5, J.Davis 2-4, Rae 1-0.
RAMS: Bryant 18-106, Tyler 28-86, McCutcheon 6-26, Ferragamo 1-
(-2).
PASSING
BUCS: Williams 13-2-12-1-0, Rae 13-2-42-0, Eckwood 1-1-42-0-0.
RAMS: Ferragamo 23-12-163-0-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Hagins 2-42, Mucker 1-42, Bell 2-12.
RAMS: Bryant 4-39, Dennard 3-56, Young 3-39, Nelson 1-15, Tyler
1-14.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: none.
RAMS: Jim Youngblood 1-10.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Hagins 4-106.
RAMS: Hill 1-27.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Reece 2-14, Johnson 1-0.
RAMS: Brown 6-67.
SACKS
BUCS: Cotney 1-10.
RAMS: Fanning 1-11.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0 Los Angeles Rams 9
Saturday 6 January 1980 at Tampa Stadium
SCORING
LA
14:58-2Q
Corral FG19
LA
0:47-2Q
Corral FG21
LA
8:09-4Q
Corral FG23
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
LDE
60 Chambers
LG
64 Horton
NT
71 Crowder
C
50 Wilson
RDE
63 Selmon
RG
61 Roberts
LOLB
57 Lewis
RT
73 Hannah
LILB
58 Selmon
WR
81 Hagins
RILB
54 Wood
WR
85 Owens
ROLB
56 Johnson
TE
88 Giles
LCB
45 White
TE
86 Obradovich
SS
33 Cotney
RB
42 Bell
FS
34 Brown
QB
12 Williams
RCB
40 Washington
SUBSTITUTIONS
6 O'Donoghue, 15 Rae, 16 Blanchard, 25 Jordan, 27 T
Davis, 36 Berns, 38 J Davis, 43 Eckwood, 44 Cesare, 46
Reece, 51 Nafziger, 53 Bonness, 55 Brown, 66 Yarno, 74
Sanders, 76 Logan, 77 Kollar, 79 Lewis, 84 Jones, 87
Mucker
DID NOT PLAY
14 Fusina, 23 Ragsdale, 69 Austin, 70 Carlton
COMMENTARY CREW
Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier
The Bucs were amazingly just one game away from the Super Bowl. Two years after they ended a 26-game losing streak
to win their first game, the Los Angeles Rams came to Tampa for the NFC Championship game for the right to play the
Steelers. But this was a subject in offensive futility and the Bucs never got moving offensively at all. Doug Williams and
Lee Roy Selmon both went out injured, and Tampa's best scoring chance, an apparent TD strike to Jimmie Giles, was
called back for a penalty.
GAME REPORTS
Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play
Click here for Jim Selman's game report
Click here for Tom McEwen's morning-after column
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to watch the clip
Mark Cotney’s safety blitz led to an early sack for the Tampa Bay defense
This was the play where Doug Williams was injured and lost for the game
There has been a lot of talk about the late Buc TD being a dodgy call - this shows that it really was a correct penalty