Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Los Angeles Rams 9
Thursday 11 September 1980 at Tampa Stadium
ABC COMMENTARY CREW Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Fran Tarkenton
The Bucs first-ever appearance on ABC Prime Time TV was a
winning one when Doug Williams' QB sneak with 57 seconds left
gained revenge for the NFC Championship defeat on the same
field nine months before. Once again the Rams were held to a
trio of Frank Corral fieldgoals, and this time a late drive by the
Bucs proved successful as Williams gained ten yards on a
scramble on the play before his game winner.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
75 Reavis
DE
77 Kollar
LG
74 Sanders
DT
71 Crowder
C
50 Wilson
DE
63 L Selmon
RG
61 Roberts
LOLB
57 Lewis
RT
73 Hannah
LILB
58 D Selmon
TE
88 Giles
RILB
54 Wood
WR
81 Hagins
ROLB
56 Johnson
WR
84 Jones
LCB
25 Jordan
FB
43 Eckwood
RCB
40 Washington
RB
42 Bell
SS
33 Cotney
QB
12 Williams
FS
34 Brown
PLAYED
1 Yepremian, 16 Blanchard, 20 Colzie, 27 T Davis, 28 G Davis, 36
Berns, 38 J Davis, 41 Thomas, 46 Reece, 52 Brantley, 55 Brown, 59
Hawkins, 62 Leonard, 65 Stalls, 68 Yarno, 76 Logan, 86 Obradovich, 87
Mucker, 89 House
DID NOT PLAY
14 Fusina, 15 Rae, 72 Snell, 79 Lewis
GAME SCORING
LA
9:16-2Q
Corral FG42
TB
0:00-2Q
Yepremian FG43
LA
6:59-3Q
Corral FG32
LA
7:00-4Q
Corral FG27
TB
0:57-4Q
Williams 1 run (Yepremian kick)
GAME REPORTS
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INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Eckwood 16-60, Williams 4-26, Bell 7-14.
RAMS: Thomas 7-64, Peacock 15-48, Bryant 8-46, E.Hill 3-11.
PASSING
BUCS: Williams 23-10-97-1-0.
RAMS: Ferragamo 29-17-191-4-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Giles 3-33, Eckwood 3-19, Bell 2-26, Jones 2-19.
RAMS: Waddy 5-88, Bryant 3-16, Dennard 2-28, D.Hill 2-27, Peacock 2-9,
Miller 1-12, E.Hill 1-9, Thomas 1-2.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Cotney 1-21, Washington 1-15, Wood 1-6, Thomas 1-0.
RAMS: Cromwell 1-25.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Hagins 2-43, G.Davis 1-22, Reece 1-21.
RAMS: Hill 2-66.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Reece 2-19, T.Davis 0-0.
RAMS: Irvin 5-69.
SACKS
BUCS: Johnson 1-0.
RAMS: Fanning 1-8, Jack Youngblood 0.5-6, JimYoungblood 0.5-6
VIDEO CLIPS
Doug Williams showed amazing grit to take it down to the one-yard line
On the next play, he scored the winning touchdown
Norris Thomas sealed the victory with his late interception
