Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13 Chicago Bears 14
Saturday 20 September 1980 at Tampa Stadium
CBS COMMENTARY CREW Gary Bender and John Madden
Garo Yepremian's 32-yard fieldgoal was blocked by Alan Page
with 40 seconds remaining and hence cost the Bucs a final
victory. Doug Williams threw for over 300 yards for the fourth
time this season, 138 of them to rookie Kevin House who finished
the season in tremendous form. But again turnovers killed the
Bucs, three fumbles being lost in Bear territory, two of them by
Tampa receivers when in fieldgoal range.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
DE
65 Stalls
LG
68 Yarno
DT
76 Logan
C
50 Wilson
DE
63 L Selmon
RG
74 Sanders
LOLB
57 Lewis
RT
73 Hannah
LILB
58 D Selmon
TE
88 Giles
RILB
54 Wood
WR
84 Jones
ROLB
56 Johnson
WR
89 House
LCB
25 Jordan
FB
27 T Davis
RCB
40 Washington
RB
42 Bell
SS
33 Cotney
QB
12 Williams
FS
34 Brown
PLAYED
1 Yepremian, 16 Blanchard, 20 Colzie, 28 G Davis, 36 Berns, 38 J
Davis, 41 Thomas, 43 Eckwood, 46 Reece, 52 Brantley, 55 Brown, 59
Hawkins, 62 Leonard, 74 Sanders, 77 Kollar, 78 Radford, 79 Lewis, 82
Shumann, 86 Obradovich, 89 House
DID NOT PLAY
14 Fusina, 69 Austin, 87 Carter
GAME SCORING
TB
13:07-1Q
Jones 33 pass from Williams (Yepremian kick)
TB
1:43-1Q
Yepremian FG27
CHI
10:14-2Q
Evans 6 run (Thomas kick)
CHI
1:34-3Q
Evans 1 run (Thomas kick)
TB
10:38-4Q
Yepremian FG26
GAME REPORTS
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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Eckwood 14-68, Bell 7-34, T.Davis 2-8, J.Davis 1-5, Berns 1-3,
Williams 2-(-1), Jones 1-(-10).
BEARS: Payton 29-130, Harper 10-32, Evans 6-10, Suhey 1-10.
PASSING
BUCS: Williams 29-16-350-2-1.
BEARS: Evans 31-15-151-2-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Hagins 4-54, House 3-138, Jones 3-54, Eckwood 2-28, Giles 1-29,
Obradovich 1-24, T.Davis 1-17, Berns 1-6.
BEARS: Payton 4-25, Watts 3-28, Haines 2-49, Williams 2-18, Suhey 2-
15, Earl 1-11, Fisher 1-5.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Cotney 1-7, Washington 1-0.
BEARS: Wilson 1-4, Ellis 1-0.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: G.Davis 3-80.
BEARS: Williams 4-83.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Reece 4-29.
BEARS: Waterscheid 1-5.
SACKS
BUCS: L.Selmon 1-11.
BEARS: Osborne 1-6.
VIDEO CLIPS
Gordon Jones had another receiving touchdown
Mark Cotney had one of the two Tampa Bay interceptions
Garo Yepremian’s winning fieldgoal attempt was blocked
