Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Los Angeles Rams 9Thursday 11 September 1980 at Tampa StadiumABC COMMENTARY CREWFrank 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.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHINGBUCS: Eckwood 16-60, Williams 4-26, Bell 7-14.RAMS: Thomas 7-64, Peacock 15-48, Bryant 8-46, E.Hill 3-11.PASSINGBUCS: Williams 23-10-97-1-0.RAMS: Ferragamo 29-17-191-4-0.RECEIVINGBUCS: 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.INTERCEPTIONSBUCS: Cotney 1-21, Washington 1-15, Wood 1-6, Thomas 1-0.RAMS: Cromwell 1-25.KICK RETURNSBUCS: Hagins 2-43, G.Davis 1-22, Reece 1-21.RAMS: Hill 2-66.PUNT RETURNSBUCS: Reece 2-19, T.Davis 0-0.RAMS: Irvin 5-69.SACKSBUCS: Johnson 1-0.RAMS: Fanning 1-8, Jack Youngblood 0.5-6, JimYoungblood 0.5-6
VIDEO CLIPSDoug Williams showed amazing grit to take it down to the one-yard lineOn the next play, he scored the winning touchdownNorris Thomas sealed the victory with his late interception